Episode 10 – Leah Jing
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December 9, 2018
Shining bright or burning out? Writer and photographer Leah Jing joins us to discuss the challenges of being a young creative, authenticity in photography, and the burden of ‘rep sweats’.
Links to topics discussed:
Shout out to:
Co–Star Horoscope App – a hyper-specific astrology site (that even hooks up star-crossed lovers)
Anelise Chen’s auto-fiction novel So Many Olympic Exertions
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, winner of the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award
Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s graphic novel Skim
Leah Jing is a writer & photographer from Melbourne. In 2016, she founded Liminal magazine, an online space for the interrogation and exploration of the Asian-Australian identity, publishing long-form interviews and art.
In 2018, Leah received a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and took part in the Emerging Cultural Leaders program at Footscray Community Arts Centre. She co-curates Comic Sans, a contemporary serialised Australian comics anthology founded with artist Rachel Ang, and is guest-editing the fourth issue of Pencilled In.