The speaker emphasizes the importance of not defining the value of personal experiences based on their truthfulness. They express a shift in mindset towards attaching value to memories or writings not just because they happened, but because of the meaning they hold. The speaker finds freedom in exploring the significance of experiences beyond their occurrence, steering away from the notion of sharing for the sake of confession.
Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
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