It’s hard to look back at this zine. A year and a half later I look at this assignment and know I would absolutely smash this project.

This is why I say the story is sacred, and how something is done says more than what is done. I was not ready to share my story. My identity was shaped in defense mode, preserving my sense of self despite everything going on, getting through it and getting far away, knowing I would some day make it all worth it , and art school was my out. As soon as I got to art school , I didn’t get the time to experience life free from my story, to get the chance to start writing a new one.

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