Diaries of an emo girl
Like many people, I reverted back to my emo phase during the pandemic, and haven't left it since. Perhaps the old wisdom of 'it was never a phase, mum!' is true after all. At the start of 2025 I unexpectedly found myself listening to Linkin Park and Evanescence again, the two bands I most credit with turning me into an emo around age 12. I was already caught in a wave of nostalgia when the Barbican in London put on a small exhibition on the emo subculture in the early 2000s, which thanks to the help of a good friend I was able to attend at least remotely. Besides making me feel old, the fact that my youth subculture ended up in a museum made me think a lot about how this culture has shaped me and what it meant to me. So I made a zine about it! Using my 1 month free Canva trial.
It did feel slightly cringe making a zine in Canva. But I figured that this is quite fitting given that I'm making a zine about my cringe teenage subculture. Besides, I was relying a lot on images that I couldn't have easily worked with otherwise. Let me tell you my printer SUCKS. So working digitally was the only viable option.
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