Passionfruit:
an Asian Queer Newsletter Project
A newsletter made by and for queer Asians everywhere. Sent through the post to your mailbox.We are taking submissions for issue 4! Deadline: November 1, 2024. Theme: community cookbook.
This project follows the tradition of queer newsletters and periodicals of the 70s-80s, as well as zines :)
About
The goal of this project is to connect people who identify as Asian and LGBTQ+. We are looking for written or visual submissions from those folks to put in a newsletter. Think of it as a forum, bulletin board, time capsule!Passionfruit takes inspiration from queer newsletters and periodicals of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as zines. See the inspiration page for details.Anybody who submits will be sent a free copy through the post.
Submissions
Submit a recipe and accompanying memory, essay, poem, artwork, reflection, etc. to this form by November 1, 2024.Issue 4 Theme: community cookbook!Inspiration:
- the importance of food to culture and community
- food and its ties to heritage and memory
- food as care and love
- food’s relationship to othering or inclusion
- complicated feelings around food, whether that be mental health related, race-related, family-related, etc.
- LGBT cookbooks!
Questions?
Email passionfruitnewsletter@gmail.com or DM on Instagram.
Subscribe
You can sign up for the newsletter here.Passionfruit has a limited number of physical community copies per issue (depending on my own funds at the moment and any donations). The email list will be sent a form for folks to claim a community copy on a first-come-first-serve basis.If you would like to support free copies, please visit our Kofi page. You can donate or purchase a back issue.Also follow Passionfruit Newsletter on Instagram at @passionfruit_nl!
cool stuff
Some resources:
- Anamika, newsletter for South Asian queer women.
- Phoenix Rising, a newsletter released in 1984 and spanning a decade. See more at this website by Sophia Yuet See.
Ideas
- open letters
- poems
- collected diary entries
- criticism and essays
- interviews
- related news from your community
- visual art, digital or traditional
- something not here that you'd like to submit? feel free to send an email.
Questions
- How has being Asian affected your participation in queer spaces, and vice versa?
- Is there a queer Asian community/identity?
- How do your various identities affect your thinking, your art, and your way of being?
- What do you think other queer Asian people need to know? What issues are urgent to you?
- Who/what experiences have led you to be the person you are today?
- What does an equitable future look like to you?
- What does your community look like?