JULY 2021
WHO ARE YOU?
Lyndsey Franklin
Compiler of this magazine. Issued: July, 2021
ISSUE NO. 01
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0 4 Sake Chapman (they/them) Changing - 9/10/20
0 6 M. B. Kritikopoulos (she/they) Am I allowed to be Asian
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“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Einstein
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Sako Chapman
Last summer I was able to get my first binder. It had been something I had been thinking about for years, but the word "trans" had always got caught in my throat and a binder felt like committing to something I wasn't ready to admit. I did a journal comic on my sketchbook to process some of my thoughts after trying it on for the first time. A year later, I decided to remaster the art digitally. While I think the original, haphazardly scribbled comic has its charm, it was nice to revisit the comic and spend more time with it! Finding out who I am is still coming in these small steps, but it's fulfilling to look back and know that I feel more myself than I did a year ago.
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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” — Allen Ginsberg
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M. B. Kritikopoulos Click here to hear the poem. M. B. Kritikopoulos is a poet from the Bay Area. She has always found a fascination in the way words can allow humanity to travel through time and space, how words can allow individuals to converse with themselves. They write to express their own experiences and hope their work resonates with others.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I just want to take the time to thank the participants who submitted their art (M. B. Kritikopoulos + Sako Chapman), the people who helped me along to get this magazine done (Kapi'olani Lee + Aimee Espiritu), and finally, my peers who participated in this program with me. I couldn't have done this without y'all. <3
Issued: July 2021 Edited by: Lyndsey Franklin
"Art and the self are like home, you may lose it every once and a while, but you will always find your way back"- Lyndsey Franklin