Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino (born November 20, 1988) is a Canadian-born American writer and editor. Quotes …there are individual ways that we work our way through all of these systems that are corrosive and inescapable. But if there is a solution to the system itself, it’s at a collective level. It’s the level of policy and politics, it’s not at the level of individual choice. On why her book Trick Mirror offers no solutions in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in AnOther (2019 Sep 15) …I act like a hopeful person, but I think that hope is based on having zero expectations. I’ve never expected anything out of life, so I’ve never been disappointed… On whether she considers herself hopeful in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” in AnOther (2019 Sep 15) I like to write about modern instincts that are in some way good. And also in some way dangerous. On being drawn to the small domestic truths of life in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11) The whole ‘girlboss’ realm, actually. Anything that is treating the magnification of a personal brand, or the acquisition of wealth as the ultimate prize, is just fully out the window. The way those books treat little girls as if they’re generic? I get sent so many self-help books that are about like, ‘perfectly imperfect’, ‘badass feminists’ that ‘don’t give a fuck’, but then the fuck is bleeped out? You know what I mean? On books that chronicle badass women in history in “Jia Tolentino: ‘I like to write about instincts that are in some way good and in some way dangerous'” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 11) External links Category: Filipino Americans Category: People from Toronto Category: Essayists from the United States Category: Editors from the United States Category: Music critics Category:Feminists from the United States Category: 1988 births Category: Living people Category: Immigrants to the United States Category:Women authors from the United States