🐎 @bukubukubooks and @lydsothebread are seeking submissions to be part of our collaborative zine: Lunar Intersections, a correlation and coexistence of Chinese New Year and Ramadan falling on the same day this year in their respective lunar calendars 🌝🌙
🥠 While this overlap is historically uncommon, the coexistence of these celebrations is not unusual across many parts of Asia. Whilst Asian identity in the Western imagination is often reduced to a monolith overlooking its complexity and intersectional identities, in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Ramadan and Chinese New Year are often celebrated and observed in parallel with one another.
🔖 SUBMISSION:
In light of this, we would love to see submissions that explore (but are not limited to) the following ideas:
🍊 Exploring the coexistence of culture and celebrations
🍊 Intersectional identities & shared traditions
🍊 Paying homage to food, tradition, culture, & gathering
🍊 Reimagined celebrations among the diaspora in the metropolis
🍊 Decolonising and reclaiming spaces, customs and narratives
🥢 We invite submissions of all creative visual forms: writings, poems, photographs, conversations, recipes, sketches, ephemera, and beyond.
🥡 NOTE: You do not have to observe or celebrate either/both Chinese New Year or Ramadan to contribute - we would love to hear your own unique experiences and perspectives! This is an open call for all and we’d love to invite contributors across the vast and diverse continent of Asia and their diasporic communities to take part and collectively make art together! 💫
🗓️ UPDATED DEADLINE: SUNDAY 29 MARCH
⭐ OUTCOME: Selected work will be featured as part of a printed zine produced by @bukubukubooks and @lydsothebread
🏮Submit your work via the google form in the link in bio or via email: [email protected]
Graphics by @byrahan
Photography by @lydsothebread
YO MY PPL IM SHARING SOME OF THE BTS OF THE MAKING OF OUR COLLABORATIVE ZINE W @bukubukubooks 📚📒🔖 WERE IN THE DESIGN PROCESS RN ‼️ THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING :D
this was a zine fair i attended by @outlandpublishingfair at @copelandparkse sharing East/South East Asian and sino diasporic independent zines and publishers 🌀 was nice to see and feel everything and take inspo for our zine we’re making 🙂↕️
LDN LAUCH COMING [AND WE TAKING IT TO SYDNEY AND KUALA LUMPUR 🌏🌸🫡]
#zine #zinemaking #london #sino #esea
may the 4th be with you. 24. i dedicate and give my life to art, to creating, to experiencing, to feeling and to being and existing. to giving back and to being a better version of myself every day. i hold gratitude and peace in my heart and i carry this forward. i’m aligned - i know what i want and i move towards it. to everyone ive come across in london, sydney, elsewhere in the world, we are only truly at the very beginning of it all🌎💫‼️
what a gift it is to feel and to exist in its entirety. what we give out we receive in abundanceee the universe is good, truly 🤲💐🪐
w luv n peace we move forwards, lyds 🫧🌸
2026 JAN + FEB WE BEEEEEN OUTSIDEEEEE N MY MENTALS UPPPPPP 🫡🫡📈📈🤲🏽🤲🏽🖤🖤 2026 WE GOOOOOD IM WORKING TOWARDS GOOD THINGSSS 💼 N WE HALFWAY THRU MY VISA NOW ANOTHER 1.5YRS 😳😝😝😔😔😭😭 (kinda wanna stay longer tho lowkey ahhha) yh ig bugging cant tag 🏷️
🌙 LUNAR INTERSECTIONS: a celebration, reflection, and acknowledgment of the rare alignment of Chinese New Year and the start of Ramadan this year, 2 major traditions observed across asia and beyond.
🍊i curated, directed and produced this shoot based off this concept and am extending this concept w @bukubukubooks in creating a collaborative zine for people to contribute their art and reflections.
‼️submissions by the END OF THE MONTH ‼️!!!!! link in biooooooooooo - we wanna see your work and curate it <333
🍡 thank you to all those involveddd so farrrrr n hopped onto this shoot
talent: @anumyo@alixzxyaa@24.8.33@vietswaggboi
film/bts: @andrebuk14@jmvr_9001@vietswaggboi
📹 this bts vid is shot by the lovely @tach_ennis on camcorder 🖤🖤 n edited by me :p
🏠 shot at @eseacommunitycentre - thank you for letting me use the space at the front so last minute
🌛anndddd finallyyy SHAREEEE your workkkk w ussss 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🤲🏽🤲🏽😤😤😤 don’t b stingyyyy 🫡🫡🫣🫣 email or submit via the link in bio google form <33 we can’t wait to curate this and put it tgth and have a launch for it <33
such good energy by the pier 🐟🎣🎏 one stranger encounter led to another, such a sweet morning <3 🎀then i ran for my ferry lol :p
on the helios 44m film lens soooo nice highly rec !
#istanbul #filmphotography #helios #turkiye #sony
🗓️ EXTENDED DEADLINE AFTER EID😋: Sunday 29th March
🐎 @bukubukubooks and @Lydsothebread are curating a collaborative printed zine: ‘Lunar Intersections’, a correlation and coexistence of Chinese New Year and Ramadan falling on the same day this year, February 17 2026 in their respective lunar calendars, an extremely rare occurrence 🌝🌙
🥡 we wanna see your work! 🫵 and submissions of all creative visual forms: writings, poems, photographs, interviews, reflections, conversations, recipes, sketches, ephemera, and beyond 💌
🏮Submit your work via the google form in the link in bio or via email: [email protected]
#zine #seasia #cny #ramadan #eid