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
- GRAND OPENING by HEYTEA* by Holly Zhou
- Lonely Little Orbit: A Letter by Kate Fishman
- Out of the Soup and into the Swamp!!! by Viv Schnabel
- Notes of the Parts of a Person by Eve Casanas
- Verisimilitude by H. Z.
- A summer spent at home by Thalia Taylor
- The Scent of Production by Phoebe Pan
- Second Serving by Lauren Ehrmann and Tiffany Xie
- Transplants by Tiffany Xie
- EVE AND VIV EACH DRINK AN ENTIRE CAN OF MONSTER, THEN GO TO ULTA AND SMELL PERFUMES FOR THIRTY MINUTES by Viv Schnabel and Eve Casanas
- Scrope Purvis by Rebecca Young
- Hotpot & Tea by Holly Zhou
- My Little World: A Day in the Life of Jjong Jjong by Cindy Liu
- The Humanities in Russia: A Conversation with Dasha Rudakova by Patrick Powers
- Recipes for Filial Piety Soup by Cindy Liu
- Anosmia by Tiffany Xie
- Nothing New Under the Sun by Phoebe Pan
- Lists of Ten by Soupbone Collective
- Fountain by Damon Pham
- Different Necessities in Sorrow-Acre by Adrian Liu
- Collective Scents by Soupbone Collective
- āA Tenuous āWeā of Us Allā: Performance, Identity, and Community in the Literature of the AIDS Crisis by Margaret Schnabel