AAPI Anthologies

AAPI Anthologies: Folklore Stage Kitten and GoGo Spotlight: Hazelnut Spread🌰 ✨ Hazelnut Spread (she/he/they) is everything you want in a performer: they’re sweet, a little nutty, and way cheaper than the name brand. They are a circus and drag performer based out of the DMV that brings boundless energy and love of making people laugh to the stage. While newer to the burlesque stage, they have performed as a dancer and an aerialist for several years, each time with the priority to captivate and entertain. Cheer Hazelnut on as they sashay and support the performances tonight as stage kitten at AAPI Anthologies DC: Folklore✨ TONIGHT! @pubkey.dc 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in b i o and going fast 🐇 🐇 About AAPI Anthologies 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth though burlesque, draglesque, and performance art.

AAPI Anthologes: Folklore Performer Spotlight: @sabina_england 🪽 Sabina England is an Indian Muslim Deaf poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker. She writes and performs by using American Sign Language, combined with dancing, burlesque, poetry and comedy. In 2024, she wrote and acted in her full-act stage comedy play called “”Deaf Alien Babe Goes to Hollywood!”” which premiered at Atlas Theater in Washington DC. Sabina also wrote a few plays that were performed in London, England but her true passion is performing onstage! Sabina has performed in NYC, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco, just to name a few! Sabina loves making people smile and her goal is always to bring comedy, beauty, glamour, and dazzle to everyone. Sabina and the rest of our incredible cast are ready to steal youe heart (and teach you a thing or two!) THIS Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc ! 🎟 are going fast on sale via our website and link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art. @aapi.anthologies

AAPI Anthologies: Folklore Performer Spotlight: @miss.morticia.atoms 🦇 Morticia Atoms (she/her) doesn’t want you to torture yourself, that’s her job. This thick-thighed thing that goes bump in the night delights in combining her love of horror and animation to haunt audiences’ imaginations. She’s also proud to be the reason all her cousins in Thailand and Laos had a goth phase. So please, put your snaps together for the creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky showgirl from Baltimore! Prepare to obsess over Morticia when she haunts the stage THIS Friday for AAPI Anthologies: Folklore! 📍THIS Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc ! 🎟 are going fast on sale via our website and link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art. @aapi.anthologies

AAPI Anthologies: Folklore Performer Spotlight: @curlybrightproductions 🧨 Curly Bright (she/they) is a Virginia-born burlesque dancer and acrobat who has been getting naked on stages since 2015, despite being raised by extremely Catholic Filipino parents. (spoiler alert: the parents know about the burlesque, and she hasn’t been disowned. Yet.) Their performance repertoire includes chair acrobatics, aerial Lyra, and fire eating. When not performing and finding new and dangerous ways to stunt on stage, Curly flexes their makeup artistry diploma by offering makeup workshops for stage, clown, drag, and cosplay. No boring looks here! We can’t wait to catch Curly again on stage for AAPI Anthologies: Folklore! 🤩 📍THIS Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc 🎟 🎟️🎟️ on sale (for now!) via our website and link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art. @aapi.anthologies

AAPI Anthologies: Folklore Performer Spotlight: @bluejeanburlesque ⚡️ Blue Jean (she/her) puts the plus size in punk rock! The former Philly burlesque battle royale champion, Blue Jean is a burlesque, nerdlesque, draglesque performer and side show block head! She’s here to kick ass and drink beer & she’s all out of beer. Catch Blue Jean and the rest of the incredible cast at AAPI Anthologies DC: Folklore! ✨ THIS Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc ! 🎟️🎟️🎟 are going fast! link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art. @aapi.anthologies

Happy AAPI Heritage Month! What defines a Matriarchy? On May 22nd, we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander month by witnessing performers across the diaspora showcase their answers to this question through burlesque and draglesque. From tales of the divine feminine of folklore to the midwives who help communities birth new life on this plane of existence, what we've learned from our shared history is that there's more than one way to be a mother. We celebrate Matriarchy in all of its manifestations. Featuring: Filthy Mari Chino @filthymarichino Joy Vicious @joy.vicious Lychee Mynx @lycheemynx Sabina England @sabina_england ZZ Chic @zakizchic Kitten - Lil'y Con Carnage @notgenghiskhum Host - Happy Bun Bun @happy.bun.bun 📍Location: @purgatory.bk Purgatory 675 Central Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11207 ⏰Time: 11pm Doors 11:30pm Show 🎟️NYC tix are on sale and live in b i o 🎟️ ICE Information Kits available and provided by @angryasianwomxn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AAPI Anthologies (AAPIA) is an annual showcase of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders across the diaspora & promotes empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art.

Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Witness our folklore come to life on stage with AAPI Anthologies in partnership with the International Nerdlesque Festival!✨ Are you prepared to peer down the path of pre-colonial Filipino lore? Can you follow the reflections from Chinese dynasties of the past? What wandering eyes follow wayward souls in Laos, or the tired traveler in Thailand? What ignites the spirit in India? Featuring folk tales interpreted and performed by: Blue Jean (she/her) 🇹🇭 Chad Rangoon (he/him) 🇹🇼🇨🇳 Curly Bright(she/they) 🇵🇭 Morticia Atoms (she/her) 🇹🇭🇱🇦 Sabina England (she/her) 🇮🇳 Hosted by Happy Bun Bun (she/her) 🇵🇭🇹🇭! With blind box vending by Tar and tea vending by @hempkettletea ! ICE Information Kits available and provided by @angryasianwomxn 📍Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc 🎟 are already on sale via our website and link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art. @aapi.anthologies

What defines a Matriarchy? On May 22nd, we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander month by witnessing performers across the diaspora showcase their answers to this question through burlesque and draglesque. From tales of the divine feminine of folklore to the midwives who help communities birth new life on this plane of existence, what we've learned from our shared history is that there's more than one way to be a mother. We celebrate Matriarchy in all of its manifestations. Featuring: Filthy Mari Chino @filthymarichino Joy Vicious @joy.vicious Lychee Mynx @lycheemynx Sabina England @sabina_england ZZ Chic @zakizchic Kitten - Lil'y Con Carnage @notgenghiskhum Host - Happy Bun Bun @happy.bun.bun 📍Location: @purgatory.bk Purgatory 675 Central Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11207 ⏰Time: 11pm Doors 11:30pm Show 🎟️NYC tix are on sale and live in b i o 🎟️ Stay tuned for more information on vendors, wellness supports, and community advocacy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AAPI Anthologies (AAPIA) is an annual showcase of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders across the diaspora & promotes empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art.

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander month by witnessing our folklore come to life on stage with AAPI Anthologies in partnership with the International Nerdlesque Festival! 📍Friday, May 15th at @pubkey.dc AAPI Anthologies (AAPIA) is an annual showcase of Asian American & Pacific Islander performers across the gender and cultural diaspora. AAPIA emphasizes that there is no singular “correct” way to identify as AAPI - our heritages, cultures, and experiences are vast and diverse. When our families immigrated to America, they brought those cultures with them in many different ways. One was warning us with scary stories and folk tales from their childhood to keep us on our best behavior. What creatures creep in the night in Korea or China? What wandering eyes follow wayward souls in South India, or the tired traveler in Thailand? Are you prepared to peer down the path of pre-colonial Filipino lore? Experience how our heritage has influenced our all AAPI cast, join us in gleeful games, and enter for a chance to win our raffle spanning our cultures! 🎟 are already on sale via our website and link in b i o 🐇 🐇 ABOUT AAPI ANTHOLOGIES 🐇 Established in 2024 in NYC and hosted by Happy Bun Bun, this show aims to promote cultural and political empathy across intersectional audiences while combating the model minority myth through burlesque, draglesque, and performance art.

Responses have been emailed to everyone who submitted for our showcases this year! Thank you everyone who reached out and showed interest this year, we're so excited for these stories to be shared on stage in May ❤️ #aapi #aapihistory #folklore #matriarchy #notyourmodelminority

We are 10 days and counting away from closing applications for both our DC and NYC showcases for AAPI Anthologies! Seeking burlesque and draglesque performers of Asian and Pacific Islander decent ✨ The theme for DC is Folklore and the theme for NYC is Matriarchy ✨ Further details provided in application link in bio, or bit.ly/AAPIAnthologies2026application Any questions or concerns please reach out to [email protected] Thanks to @thenerdlesquefest for your partnership toward DC's showcase ✨ #aapi #aapihistory #folklore #matriarchy #notyourmodelminority

AAPI Anthologies is back for 2026, and we are proud to announce that thanks in partnership with @thenerdlesquefest we will be sharing voices in Washington DC alongside NYC in back to back weekends this may! For community new and old this post highlights who we are, when we've done so far, and what we look forward to accomplishing this season. Applications for both DC and NYC are live! Deadline is 4/13/2026! Special thanks to @deprenaissanceburlesque for supporting this show come to fruition on stage these past 2 years. May the spotlight shine bright on all our future endeavors. #aapi #anthologies #matriarchy #identity #folklore