Occasional musings on technology, culture, power, and desire.
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Now more than ever, I feel compelled to find ways to foster closeness where physical gaps cannot be bridged. It is hard to confront the void left from the loss of communities that dissolved overnight. Many of you feel very far away from me. I used to have a huge fear of writing. I was afraid, more than anything, that I was bad at it, and that this was irreparable. But I also understood it to be a fundamental medium in which I could engage with another in full sincerity and vulnerability. Some of my best writing has been in emails to lovers, to professors, in text messages to friends. I have only published one essay publicly, and it has always read differently to me, stripped of the intimacy of things said in private.
Occasional musings on technology, culture, power, and desire.
Occasional musings on technology, culture…
Occasional musings on technology, culture, power, and desire.
Now more than ever, I feel compelled to find ways to foster closeness where physical gaps cannot be bridged. It is hard to confront the void left from the loss of communities that dissolved overnight. Many of you feel very far away from me. I used to have a huge fear of writing. I was afraid, more than anything, that I was bad at it, and that this was irreparable. But I also understood it to be a fundamental medium in which I could engage with another in full sincerity and vulnerability. Some of my best writing has been in emails to lovers, to professors, in text messages to friends. I have only published one essay publicly, and it has always read differently to me, stripped of the intimacy of things said in private.