Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Still Processing.

“I feel like I’m still writing to let my 10-year-old self know it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to be a chubby androgynous weirdo. You know what I mean? Like this weird black kid. It’s okay. There are others like you.”

Thanks to MailChimp, Mubi, "Food: A Cultural Culinary History," and "Tales" for sponsoring this week's [email protected] on Longform[02:00] Wortham’s New York Times archive[02:00] Still Processing[02:00] Longform Podcast #95: Wesley Moris[02:00] Longform Podcast #218: Wesley Morris[05:35] "Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home" (David Carr • New York Times • March 2011)[06:40] "We Sink Our Claws Into Black Panther with Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Still Processing • Feb 2018)[20:40] Wortham’s Wired archive[25:15] "Meet the Mario Maestros Who Have Video Game Music Rocking Concert Halls" (Joel Stein • Wired • Nov 2007)[26:05] The Underwire[27:08] "Early-Bird Buzz Mounts for Whedon's Dollhouse" (Wired • March 2008)[27:25] "Rosario Dawson Delivers High-Tech Drama in Gemini Division" (Wired • Aug 2008)[43:50] "Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion" (New York Times • April 2012)[52:30] "Everybody Sexts" (Matter • Nov 2014)[56:20] "Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?" (New York Times • Jan 2018)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices