QRL is grateful to participate in the group exhibition WO-MEN at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. Check out the online exhibition, visit QRL’s online book guide here, and check out the online Queer Reads Lexicon. Our collaborators include production lead and curator J. Wu, print lexicon designer Tiff Chan and digital lexicon designer Winnie Yoe.
QRL pop-up library at the launch of Ourself 我哋 Zine, a new zine for queer voices in Hong Kong, at Nose in the Books 打書釘, Causeway Bay. December 12, 2020.
Online reading by Mary Jean Chan of poems from her book Flèche (2019, Faber & Faber), followed by a discussion and Q+A. November 20, 2020.
Online QRL Show & Tell with amanda wan, Tray Ma, and Phebe Ferrer for Vancouver Art Book Month, October 22, 2020.
Discussion: Visualizing Queer Culture in Hong Kong and Taipei with Dr. Chi Ta-wei and Kaitlin Chan, January 31, 2020. Open Library: February 1 – 2, 2020.
QRL participating in RUB – Now Wave and Graphic Activism at Flux Factory, New York, November 23 – December 15, 2019.
QRL with ZINE COOP at Taipei Art Book Fair, Talk on Sustaining Creative Partnerships in Independent Publishing, October 18 – 20, 2019.
QRL with ZINE COOP at Vancouver Art Book Fair, October 18 – 20, 2019. Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) is a non-profit organization committed to the advancement, appreciation and circulation of artists’ publishing.
Acudus Aranyian Solo Exhibition at Art and Cultural Outreach Staircase, September 13 – October 13, 2019. QRL Representative: Beatrix Pang. Acudus Aranyian is a Taiwanese indigenous Paiwan person. Born in 1996 in the Danlin tribe in Pingtung County, he moved to Taoyuan at the age of three when his family relocated for his father’s work. After moving to Tamsui to study at university, he began using his family’s old film camera to record his life. Over time, the rolls of film have chronicled his daily depression, his lust and emotions, the queer and techno cultures of Taipei, and political movements centered in Qingdao East Road.
QRL workshops with Ka-Man Tse: Why Printed Matter and How to Make a Zine, July 6 and 13, 2019. Supported by the Hong Kong International Photo Festival.
QRL with ZINE COOP at Kitakagaya Flea & Asia Book Market, Osaka, May 25 – 26, 2019. In dialogue with Takaki-san of IN/SECTS on May 25, 4-5pm.
QRL English/Cantonese queer lexicon workshop, with venue support from The Gamut Project and Studio 94, and food from Table of Two Cities, May 1, 2019.