I didn’t make any resolutions for 2026, but one commitment I am trying to make to myself is to be OK with whatever I feel when things go more slowly that they used to, or than I hoped they would. If it’s a happy, lazy kind of slow: great. If it’s something that’s important to me or to the world, it is right to be angry about that, and to take a moment to ask: what then?
I’m also making a tentative attempt to be more consistent in documenting the things I’m doing and working on this year, whether that’s here or on my Instagram or on my work profile, in the acknowledgement that I’ll have ups and downs and that this is OK.
With that in mind, here are two mini-zines I made in January 2026. One uses a poem by Hedgie Choi and is a kind of ‘manifesting’ of the things I want for myself and for those close to me this year (IN THAT LIFE). The other documents some of my academic reading and thinking about zine-making, as I try to decide how to move forward with this work and my university work (AM I A ZINE MAKER?).
