Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed Gift Janie Chang exhibits her signature

Janie Chang exhibits her signature trademarks—lyrical prose

Craig and Margaret Rogerson

she sees a man on a double-decker bus and justknows that he’s her person

In a place ruled by pedigree and privilege

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed Gift Janie Chang exhibits her signatureNot funny. When a high schooler started a private Instagram that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as edgy humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. No one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the accounts discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the