Please Don't Tell

Hey everyone, it's Sarah Frier. This week I disconnected from the news cycle in favor of mountains and waterfalls. My iPhone camera roll is full of green lakeside landscapes and smiling selfies. But the evidence is not on my Instagram.

I'm not abandoning the app or anything. I'm so fascinated with Instagram I wrote a book on it. But each time I thought about posting a photo, I imagined the questions that would surface in my followers' minds, not just about whether I wore a mask (of course I did), but also whether my vacation was worth discussing publicly during a deadly pandemic and a global reckoning over racism (probably not).