Erica S.

"The latest issue of my (Erica, your friendly neighborhood distro lady) personal zine discusses moving to Baltimore, mental health issues, and wacky stories from the many day jobs I've had over the years. The bulk of the zine centers around my diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder at the age of 26, and the difference that treatment has made in my life."
http://www.blacklightdiner.com/zines.html… (meer)

Erica's cut & paste typewritten perzine reminds me a lot of "doctrinal expletives," both in execution (the layout is simple blocks of text pasted over patterned backgrounds), & writing style, which is fairly wry & sarcastic, but still attempting to express some deeper ideas about stuff--stuff in this case including mental health, writing science fiction, misapprehensions of the rust belt, etc. some of the pieces, such as erica's scathing critique of a student filmmaker from wisconsin who maligned pittsburgh in an independent film, or her deconstruction of the icarus project & anti-psychiatry (this piece makes up a good percentage of the zine, delving into erica's personal experiences with psychiatry), or her piece about giving up on the pittsburgh science fiction-writing community because it was too focused on getting published & making money, were written especially for the zine. interspersed are fragments from her journal, mostly about mental health & journaling. this zine will be of particular interest to people struggling with mental health issues (regardless of your personal stance on psychiatry) & people who take writing seriously, either through journaling or writing fiction. - Paper Trail Distro… (meer)