Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
I sat with my frustration until I came across a 1963 etiquette book published by Seventeen magazine. Overcome by the need to redact — in order to emphasize — the book’s casual instructions for teenage girlhood success, I began erasing the 26 chapters methodically to document what I felt I’d really learned. I understood that the resultant book I’d created, “Teen Queen Training,” was also written to myself as a teenager as a different sort of instruction manual, recounting all the lessons I’d learned in exquisitely humiliating detail as a teen girl, clipped and pasted into a mixtape to say what I’d wanted to know so badly.
