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Saving women from pop culture stereo-types
Sabrina Chapadjiev

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Trina was one of the forerunners of the underground zine movement in the 70's.

Well, I was such a good daughter. I always listened to my mother. My mother said, "You're a teenager now. Comics are for kids so it's time to give away your collection." So I gave my collection away to the neighborhood kids. And we're talking an amazing collection.

I did, and I didn't last. I'm a dropout. I went to Queens College, and discovered the joys of hanging out with upper-class students on the campus and singing folk songs, and playing guitars, so I kind of cut a lot of my classes. Basically, I'm not so much a drop-out as a kick-out.

I was an English Major. I wanted to write and I wanted to draw, but I didn't exactly know what I wanted to write and draw, you know? So instead, I did what a lot of girls tend to do. I dated a lot of writers.

Reading like mad. Never stopped reading. Science Fiction. Philip K. Dick. I discovered Stranger in a Strange Land by [Robert A.] Heinlin. These were all the hippie classics. Kurt Vonnegut. [Aldous] Huxley. I read Huxley.
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