Zines Taught Esmé Weijun Wang About Herself

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.esmewang on how Sleater-Kinney and Alice Wu’s TheHalfOfIt and SavingFace shaped her identity

Photo: Courtesy of Esmé Weijun Wang In both her fiction and nonfiction, the writer Esmé Weijun Wang dives deep within herself to share personal truths and insights. This is perhaps best seen in her 2019 book The Collected Schizophrenias, an essay collection that explores multiple diagnoses — including schizoaffective disorder, PTSD, and Lyme disease — through her own lived experience and detailed research. What results is an intimate look at mental illness.

All Over Me I was growing up in a very white town, but also media was really white growing up. And so a lot of the things that were my touchstones … were incredibly inflected with whiteness. For example, one of the first things I thought of was this movie called All Over Me [about the friendship between two young women, one of whom starts to fall for the other].

Riot Grrrl and Zines I was so deeply involved in riot grrrl and zines when I was in my teens. And I had my own zine and it was through zines that I discovered so many things. And it was also through zines that I was exposed to so many bands. Sleater-Kinney was a band that I saw so many times. Zines exposed me not only to other young queers but also introduced me to the trans community, because I feel like it was not something that I would have been exposed to openly in my high school.

 

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