from an essay in my book:

“We exist as frozen moments on our curated social media pages. We delude ourselves into thinking that this is how we relate to each other. We think we’re making the rules, but we don’t have that power–not on these apps. The embodiment of technology is happening to us without our consent. How much of us is machine and how much of us is human? I’m concerned about social media platforms' biases and how they honor the continued freezing of ourselves, specifically the freezing of our appearance. There is nothing subversive about a frozen face.”