Title: Thoughts in NYC
Description: Cover title.

Ashley Wagstaff is a high school student at the Barnard Pre-College Program. This zine documents her summer experience in Morningside Heights, NYC, in which she sometimes feels awkward and isolated because of her race. She includes letters to her family and friends and self, annotated Facebook statuses and what she was really thinking, and thoughts on the artwork of Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Julie Mehretu. The zine is made of multi colored construction paper cut to look like thought bubbles.
Subjects: Teenage girls, African American high school students, Race relations, Social aspects
Places: United States