The chapter delves into the emotional impact of the end of a publication, discussing the loss of a dream and youth alongside the gained perspective of growing up and shedding former identities. It explores the shift in identity, freedom from past pressures, and the creative liberation that followed the publication's closure.
Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
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