Gia (Jia) Tolentino
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556 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Gia (Jia) Tolentino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026
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Becoming deranged by this, becoming actually captured by it.
I think I think she will see me her whole life.
You know
responding to it, living within the system, you know, but I never want her to think I never want her to see within me that the purpose of being a woman is to be as beautiful as possible all the time, you know, and to never look old, to never change, to always look like I did when I was twenty six.
I never want her
to see those incentives that exist on the internet be written on my actual activities in life.
And I hope I can hold myself to that for her sake, you know?
Gia Tolentino, thank you so much for this conversation.
Thank you so much for having me.
Gia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Her new piece is called Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare.
In the new comedy I Want Your Sex, Olivia Wilde plays an LA based artist who initiates a dominant submissive relationship with her younger employee played by Cooper Hoffman.
The movie, which drew much acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival,
was directed by the queer cinema pioneer Greg Araki.
Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.
Justin Chang is a film critic at The New Yorker.
He reviewed I Want Your Sex, starring Olivia Wilde.
Coming up, Lee Sung Jin, the creator of the Netflix series Beef.
This is Fresh Air Weekend.
The midterms are coming.
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