In “Picking at the Surface” for Pantograph Punch, writer Vanessa Crofskey explores her compulsive grooming habits in relation to her family history, drawing on my theoretical work on skin picking in response to intergenerational displacement trauma. Read here.

"Dear Journal is an emerging publication that celebrates the lived experiences of past, present, and future women, created by Dunja Kovacevic and Laina Hughes."

Credit: Dear Journal Issue 1 launch video shot by Chelsea Neufeld

 

"Dunja Kovacevic and Laina Hughes for Dear Journal," interviewed by Michelle Panting, FULL Magazine. Read it here.

Review: Dear Journal Issue #2, Sarah-Tai Black for Broken Pencil Magazine. Find it here.

Review: "Dear Journal #3 speaks up, but never speaks for, its readers," Sarah-Tai Black for Broken Pencil Magazine. Read it online here. 

Dear Journal was mentioned by New York Times writer Jenna Wortham, in Brooklyn Magazine: "The Brooklyn 100: Jenna Wortham, writer for the New York Times Magazine."