Instead, she thoughtfully-and humorously-offers critical inquiry into why digital spaces have the power to inflict our physical senses offline, without portraying the Internet as this nightmarish entity living under our beds. In nine new essays from her debut collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino doesn’t altogether pour out confessionals strictly damning the Internet, nor does she pinpoint where the future of our screen worlds are going. Years later, Tolentino now writes for The New Yorker while her previous employers include Jezebel and The Hairpin. Savoring her own autonomy to craft her own identity online however she’d like, she began using trailblazing website-hosting platforms like Expage and Angelfire to write about her early encounters with Beanie Baby webpages. Raised in Houston, Texas, Tolentino grew up finding solace in the surge of digital spaces taking over every teen and preteen’s life in the early 2000s. Before Jia Tolentino was born, her parents moved from the Philippines to Canada and then from Canada to the USA. And before the Internet, there was real life. Before there was Facebook, there was MySpace.
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