AAAinA’s “Vaguely Asian” Leadership Camp, led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew, shares four collaborative zines exploring aesthetics, colonialism, solidarity, translation, and more
Notes
1_Poon
Charis Poon gives the textual equivalent of “reaction videos“ to excerpts from Ursula K Le Guin, revealing shifting desires and identities over time in this eight-part series
Essays
Not Nothing, Not Enough
Vijay Masharani writes about being gaslit by their psychoanalyst, and the nagging suspicion that racial thinking puts us on the slow road to madness
Essays
Exit Time: An Essay in Two Parts
Karno Dasgupta argues against reparative historiographies, and ruminates on “the look of love” through Sim Chi Yin’s photography
Essays
now we think: as we fuck
K’eguro Macharia ruminates on how sex is siloed from life, and how we are as much our fantasies as we are our realities
Essays
Making Stock, Taking Stock
Nereya Otieno shares her recipe for homemade chicken stock, while ruminating on the alchemical nature of time
Notes
Waiting
Anushka Jasraj speculates about everyday encounters with plants, psychoanalysis, and varied experiences of time during crises
Notes
Temporal Text
Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations
Poetry & Fiction
Play/Time
Daryl Li explores tabletop and video games through an experimental text on resistance, agency, catastrophe, and finding some semblance of human connection
Poetry & Fiction
If they were fragments, make each piece sharp
Clementine Hei-man Cheung shares fragments on negotiating illness and relapse, via recollections from Greece, Scotland, Hong Kong, and from within
Poetry & Fiction
cherub face in whiskey crate
Lucienne Bestall traces an object’s transmutation from historical detritus to contemporary artwork, reflecting on preservation and destruction as twinned impulses
Conversations
A Mouthful of Cloud (working title)
Jen Liu speaks with Freya Chou about Xenobots and Anthrobots, microlabour, Chinese American sex workers, and more
Conversations
Aligning with Desire
Hà Đào and Jennifer Yang on leaving an imprint, and sustaining photographic and archival practices in Vietnam
Conversations
What Sickness You Can Live With
Trisha Low, Hay, and tshirt speak with us on feeling their way through worlds, proximal intimacies, and writing both in and about fandom
Conversations
Gambles Against Time
Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive
Poetry & Fiction
Elsewhere
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries
Poetry & Fiction
Misalignment
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on listening to the way the body speaks
Conversations
Publishing as Method: In Conversation with Ozge Ersoy and Paul C. Fermin
On publishing cultures and trends, conceptualisations of “Asia,” and care and community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Notes
3SUMS | what's your refuge?
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong
