Devorah Heitner
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2,393 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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And instead
Instead we get like violent pornography and instead we get all kinds of other things.
And even for kids for all the liberatory potential, say for like queer kids exploring their identities, I think there's a flip side of there's huge benefits to exploring identity in an IRL community too and having that kind of support.
And we know that that's not available to every kid.
But it can be really challenging to figure out
kind of who you are in terms of gender and sexuality, in terms of your political identity, in terms of
How you identify in terms of being differently wired, all of these things are.
Challenging because the internet wants to sort everyone into a category.
The internet wants to be searchable.
The internet wants a hashtag.
And I think we all want our kids to be more than a hashtag.
We want to be more.
Like as an author and as someone who's like has a public presence, like thinks about things like branding.
I also reject that.
Like I'm just like public, you know, personal brand is BS.
Like we should all be able to be complicated.
And I think that's where the internet, at least the internet that I know and these spaces I'm talking about, like TikTok and Discord, kind of fall apart because it's hard to be complicated and be searchable by a hashtag.
And we want our kids to be able to be.
complicated.
And to be able to embrace their identities and and to be able to also evolve, not have to feel like they have to kind of label themselves to be found.
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