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The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.
When I was a kid, 'Quantum Leap' was one of my favorite TV shows.
The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them.
Luckily, my only responsibility for 'Still Processing' is to show up and talk.
I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.
In person, RuPaul is warm, funny, personable - someone who thoroughly enjoys life.
Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.
Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.
I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.
Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.
Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.
In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.
I came to 'RuPaul's Drag Race' late: I didn't get into the show until its fourth or fifth season.
Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.
Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.
I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I've known and invite other people to tell me their stories.
A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.
There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.
Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.
As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.
The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.
I'm not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called ''The Grind Workout.''
The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.
As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.
For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.
In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.
I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.
Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.
Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.
Traditional guidebooks have never quite done it for me. Too often, they seem to be aimed at a certain type of comfortable, middle-class traveler.
There's a lot of paranormal activity in my family. Whether it is more than most other families is hard to say, but we seem to have more than most.
For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.
Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.
The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.
Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.
Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.
Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.
Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.
The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.