I don’t personally know the journalist Jenna Wortham, but I follow her on Twitter. I had noticed that the people I followed on Twitter always retweeted her, so one day last year, I followed her, too.
Her tweets don’t usually contain much heavy information; rather, they coat the rest of my Twitter feed with whimsy, like a light brushing of egg wash on top of recently made butter cookies that are about to go into the oven. Her tweets just make Twitter better.
So if Wortham’s tweets are generally on the level of low-grade pastries, then the one that caught my eye a couple of days ago was an anomaly. This one was like a frosted wedding cake with sculpted Beyoncé fondant flowers dotting the sides.
“Love, Beyoncè” pic.twitter.com/rJTD8UAS1r
— Jenna //\\ Wortham (@jennydeluxe) February 10, 2016
Not only did it warm my soul that Jenna appreciated the thank you card, but I also loved the fact that Queen Bey used a straight edge to make sure each line of her writing was level with the next one.
Wortham had written a review of Beyoncé’s new music video for “Formation” for the New York Times. Beyoncé read it, liked it, and sent Wortham this thank you card.
I read Wortham’s “Formation” video review today. She did her job well as a writer: finding the words that her readers search for to express their thoughts and feelings. My favorite part was:
“Formation” isn’t just about police brutality — it’s about the entirety of the black experience in America in 2016, which includes standards of beauty, (dis)empowerment, culture and the shared parts of our history.
Though I don’t know Wortham, I felt like she knew the thread of emotion running through my head, and, apparently, so did Beyoncé.
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