Before social media, Asian American artists and writers built community by hand. Zines like Slant and Bamboo Girl carved out space for Asian American voices within riot grrrl, using photocopiers, staples, and the mail to reach readers who rarely saw themselves in the movement. In conjunction with the exhibition TRIBUTE, which honors the Asian American artists who helped shape DIY, punk, and counterculture, this workshop invites participants to pick up those same tools.

Led by curator Anh Dao and Accent Sisters, a New York–based organization for diasporic creatives, the workshop explores the zine as a space for personal, confessional, and unfiltered expression. Participants will make their own zines and consider how self-publishing can be a way of putting our names, stories, and histories back into circulation.

No experience is necessary. Bring zines of your own to swap, or leave with something you made that day.

Accent Sisters was founded in New York in 2018 by Na Zhong and Jiaoyang Li. Beginning as a writing community for diaspora writers working in English, it now includes a creative writing academy, a multilingual bookstore, a bilingual publishing house, and an art gallery, all devoted to connecting and empowering marginalized and diasporic creatives.

Anh Dao Ha is a curator and cultural worker based between New York City and Saigon. She is an MA candidate in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard).