Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang
Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang

Erika Atkinson and Linda Wang

Recorded August 27, 2015 Archived August 27, 2015 49:52 minutes
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Description

Linda Wang (36) and Erika Atkinson (75) talk about the role that journal writing has played in their lives. They talk about when they got their first journals, how it feels to write in their journals, their practices and commitment to writing, and how their self understandings have been shaped by their identities as diarists.

Subject Log / Time Code

0:57
E talks about her childhood and writing in her journal.
4:40
L talks about how they first became friends, and her childhood memories of writing in her journal.
7:10
E and L describe their first diaries.
10:03
E talks about the importance of journal writing in surviving the divorce of her 2nd marriage.
11:09
L talks about how journal writing helped her survive a traumatic childhood.
15:07
E and L describe their voices and styles when they write in their journals.
25:38
E and L talk about reading their past journals.
28:28
E talks about the differences between writing a journal and keeping a blog.
30:30
E talks about how writing in a diary has shaped who she is today.
39:40
E talks about the differences between private and public self expression.
40:38
L describes being afraid to write.
42:35
E and L talk about gender, labels, and diaries.
46:24
L talks about her family and how journaling supported her through the death of her mother.

Participants

  • Erika Atkinson
  • Linda Wang

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SFPL

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