BIPOC Zine Workshop
The offensive questions we were asked as BIPOC
Community Discussion • Zine DIYing • Contact Improvisation • Chips
“Where are you originally from?”
“Do people in your country eat dogs?”
“Are you adopted?”
“Are you a dealer?”
“Can I touch your hair?”
Questions like these often appear as curiosity.
But behind them are assumptions about who belongs, who is foreign, and who must explain themselves. Many of us live in places imagined as open, tolerant, and progressive. Yet in everyday life we still encounter moments that remind us we are being read through stereotypes. These moments are often small, but they accumulate. They shape how we move through public spaces, how we speak, and how safe we feel.
This workshop creates a space for BIPOC participants to share these experiences and transform them into collective storytelling through zine-making. Together we will gather, talk, and create.
Participants will be invited to contribute a page that might include:
• a question you have been asked that felt strange, offensive, or exhausting
• the feeling you had in that moment
• context or knowledge you wish people understood
• how you would respond now
Pages can take any form: writing, drawing, collage, humor, satire, anger, poetry, comic.
The final zine will become a small collective record of everyday resistance, turning awkward, uncomfortable moments into shared knowledge, reflection, and solidarity.
The workshop will end with a gentle aftercare session where we do contact improvisation and meditation together.
No artistic experience is required. This is a community space to speak, listen, and create together.
The workshop will be held in english, and is free to attend. This is a BIPOC separatist event. There are 12 spots available, so sign-up by emailing read@thepondcph.com to let us know you're coming.
About the Facilitators
Wendy
Chinese queer artist working across performance and social practice, exploring anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and the politics of time and attention. Her performance art project “Pay Time for Money” uses participatory and situational performance to critique the alienation and exploitation embedded in capitalism and wage labor. The work has been presented in the group exhibition “My Corner”, as well as at Ripple Youth Space and Queer Church Space in Guangzhou.
Non-profit practitioner, with experience includes organizing writing-for-healing workshops and reading groups for pneumoconiosis-affected communities and single mothers.
Now based in Copenhagen, continuing anti-racist practice by creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, and connection.
Qidi
Neurodiverse queer, born in Asia, wandering nomadically for the past four years.
Researcher in migration studies, working through artistic approaches, and often tired of theories produced within white-centric academic frameworks.
Somatic practitioner, committed to bringing practices such as contact improvisation, mindful movement, bodywork, Buddhism, and tea meditation into the revolution within everyday life.