PERSONAL ZINES
DO YOU SPEAK SECOND GEN?
Chinese is my first language but also my second. It is both familiar and distant, evokes both trouble and comfort. This zine contains 12 lenses through which I view my relationship with this language that I speak as a second generation immigrant. Perhaps it is relatable to you, perhaps you will share a lens or two, perhaps you too know your vegetables best.
TEA FOR ONE
Half field guide, half memoir of being (mostly) alone for a year in London!
UNION VALENTINES
This (slightly not safe for work but definitely safe for workers!) zine is a saucy love letter (ages 18+ recommended) to organizers and workers and laborers fighting for a better world, where capital isn’t consolidated by the few, workers aren’t exploited for others’ gain, people have enough for both needs and wants to be satisfied, and we live and act in interdependence and solidarity and support of one another.
ART BOOKS
DO YOU SPEAK SECOND GEN? (Art Book)
What /is/ the second generation a generation of? One of the things I thought a lot about as I originally made this zine is that there is no single or universal answer to that question. This zine contains (12 of) my experiences with my "home" language that in their specificity might be relatable, but ultimately are just single facets of the infinitely complex and multitudinal experience of growing up as the child of immigrants. So printing this zine on transparencies overlaid on one another which together read "the second generation is a generation of [something completely indecipherable/incomprehensible]" felt like a truer, more valid way to share my thoughts about my experience than on opaque paper pages that stand alone as definitive statements.
More information and limited copies available for purchase at The Shop at MCBA (Minnesota Center for Book Arts) HERE.