The Guardian’s Kai Wright refuses to buy a new phone

The Verge profiles Kai Wright, co-host of Stateside with Kai and Carter, highlighting his journalism career and personal habits. The piece touches on his work exploring race, politics, identity, and the AIDS epidemic, while offering a lighter look at his routines, gardening, music tastes, and refusal to buy a new phone.

The article fits a broader trend of media outlets using lifestyle interviews to humanize prominent journalists and audio hosts. Wright’s attachment to an older phone also reflects growing consumer fatigue with constant device upgrades and the cultural appeal of intentional technology use.