Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
An erasure essay is a mixtape, removing the parts of our teenage experience we didn’t want to see (the spitballs, the embarrassment, the interest in anyone but ourselves). A mixtape is an erasure essay, emphasizing what we did want to see (the palm-up hand between movie theater seats waiting to be held, the boyish handwriting, the interest in ourselves). As a teenager both terrified of exposing who I really was and also desperately wanting to be seen for who I was, I made mixtapes to conceal and reveal to those who cared to look. As an adult, I wrote erasure essays to reveal what I had still concealed from myself.
