MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
Publisher FORTUNE
Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus
Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus
Publisher Asian American Feminist Collective
Author Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Salonee Bhaman, Tiffany Tso, and Vivian Shaw
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics. We bring together first-hand accounts and analyses from our communities, including health and service workers and caregivers on the frontlines, students, people living with chronic illness, journalists, and organizers. Together, this collection of stories, essays, and artwork shows how we experience, resist, and grapple with a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian, is spoken of in the language of contagion and invasion, and reveals the places where our collective social safety net is particularly threadbare.
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Author Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Salonee Bhaman, Tiffany Tso, and Vivian Shaw
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics. We bring together first-hand accounts and analyses from our communities, including health and service workers and caregivers on the frontlines, students, people living with chronic illness, journalists, and organizers. Together, this collection of stories, essays, and artwork shows how we experience, resist, and grapple with a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian, is spoken of in the language of contagion and invasion, and reveals the places where our collective social safety net is particularly threadbare.
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