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"In many ways, Vivian Jenna Wilson is a lot like any other 20-year-old girl.
The Los Angeles native spends hours a day on Discord with her friends; loves
reading,
RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Chappell Roan; and she runs late — two full
hours late, to be specific, for our scheduled Zoom meeting. Also like many
20-year-olds, she has a complicated relationship with her father. But not
everybody’s dad is the richest man in the world — a man who spent the last few
years consolidating power, becoming one of the most prolific posters on a
social media platform he purchased, and suddenly, one of the most powerful
figures in the US government. Wilson is, whether she likes it or not, the
daughter of Elon Musk.
Wilson entered the public consciousness because of her father, but not for
typical nepo baby reasons. (Before you ask, Wilson says she’s been financially
independent from her father since she came out as trans in 2020, so you can
stop sending her Venmo requests for thousands of dollars, something she says
has happened before.) At the time, she was trying to disconnect herself from
Musk, eventually writing in a 2022 petition to legally change her name that she
doesn’t “wish to be related to [her] biological father in any way, shape or
form.” Though she’d never publicly spoken about Musk before then, her attempt
to distance herself from him is what ultimately drew her into the public eye.
“I have a sharp tongue,” Wilson tells
Teen Vogue in her second-ever published
interview. “When you spend all of COVID [lockdown] in online communities of
queer people who are constantly getting into drama and trying to read each
other, [you] learn how to make a response very quickly, and you learn how to be
funny and snap at someone else in a comedic way…. Getting into fights with
other queer teenagers — that's how you learn how to be quick and witty.” Much
like her father, Wilson is extremely online; unlike her father, she’s really
good at it."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
