A surreal and kitschy drag performance mixed with lip-sync style interviews based upon stories of East and Southeast Asian self-publishing underground heroes.
Watch her. She is Xiaomei (Little Beauty). Call me Xiaomei. We are unbound zines.
Small. Fragile. Fleeting. No ISBNs — that’s how they escape the systems that cage stories. In Asia, queer and women’s zines exist like nowhere else. Their formats dance between extremes — tiny pocket booklets that whisper secrets, oversized sheets that demand attention; bindings improvised with thread and hope, stitched by hand, or left brazenly unbound; materials experimental and alive. They inherit the lineage of woodblock prints and folk art, transforming traditional craft into radical publishing that burns bright.
This year, they surfaced. Breathing spaces into being! Then silence. No ISBNs, no voice. Censorship’s weight pressed them back into shadow. Overseas — Is this the only horizon left? What will we, those unbound zines, encounter drifting beyond the borders?
THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE KOMEDIA STUDIO
UNRESERVED SEATING
AGES 16+
