Zine 1: Identities
āBut more and more we can see that the question is not whether we are āindividuals.ā We can't help but be, this has been proved, case by case. We are not drones or robots and never will be. The question, then, is whether being an āindividualā makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.ā āChang-Rae Lee, On Such A Full Sea
How does one define identity? What does it mean to be an individual? And, as Lee asks: to what extent does being an āindividualā matter or make a difference? In Soupboneās inaugural zine, we explore these questions through essays, poems, interviews, and visual work, while also examining topics of collective and cultural identities from distances near and far.
Published April 2020 | Edited by Phoebe Pan
Contents
- Lately by Soupbone Collective
- Never Gone by Phoebe Pan
- Lonely Little Orbit: A Letter by Kate Fishman
- Out of the Soup and into the Swamp!!! by Viv Schnabel
- Verisimilitude by H. Z.
- A summer spent at home by Thalia Taylor
- Second Serving by Lauren Ehrmann and Tiffany Xie
- Transplants by Tiffany Xie
- Scrope Purvis by Rebecca Young
- Hotpot & Tea by Holly Zhou
- The Humanities in Russia: A Conversation with Dasha Rudakova by Patrick Powers
- Recipes for Filial Piety Soup by Cindy Liu
- Nothing New Under the Sun by Phoebe Pan
- Lists of Ten by Soupbone Collective
- Different Necessities in Sorrow-Acre by Adrian Liu
- āA Tenuous āWeā of Us Allā: Performance, Identity, and Community in the Literature of the AIDS Crisis by Margaret Schnabel