little study zine
Turtle Island; Singapore
Bio
Welcome to little study! We are a publication of writings and close encounters based in the digiverse between Turtle Island and Singapore.
This is a space…
to think without the pressure of completion;
to retrain our attention to meander, and linger;
to practice naming things that strike us as they strike;
to write without having to yield to a middleman;
to be less precious with our words and our names;
to support each other in putting work into the world;
to spout/shout/sing, grounded in a community of voices.
Zines
Imaginary Dinner Party, $3.00 (USD) - little study is a publication of writings and close encounters. Our zine grew out of our group of friends and co-conspirators who wanted a space to think without the pressure of completion, to allow our attention to meander, and to spout/shout/sing, grounded in a community of voices. This zine, titled Imaginary Dinner Party, was compiled as part of an event little study hosted at the 2020 Singapore Writers Festival, titled Imaginary Tasting Menu.
Imaginary Dinner Party was conceived through dreams of food and for the food of our dreams. Over the summer, finding ourselves scattered through space, we gathered together at a digital imagined dinner party. We each brought a dish we dreamed to make and share. And in the fall, we gathered to flash-write over several weeks.
Three of our contributors met in Singapore for writing sessions, at the working space of a nascent urban farm that used to be a school, but now houses silkie chickens and other delightful growing things. We brought two ingredients of fig and threadfin, and read and wrote to each other over several weeks. Other than our flash writing, our time together also resulted in various attempts at cooking with figs, including a beautiful-in-prep but disastrous lavender honey ice cream with a fig swirl, and a more successful fig tart. Although all of us have ties to threadfin, we haven’t yet attempted to cook it. Maybe soon.
Four of us met over Zoom across Turtle Island during a time of unending anti-Black violence, xenophobic terror, and a global resurrection of a fascism that never left. Flash writing became our space of accountability when surrounded by overlapping crises. Together, we typed, edited, and fermented. We dissolved and burst into laughter and into one another’s words, visions, and hopes for a different world.
Links, Social, & Support
Social media: @littlestudyzine on Instagram and Tumblr
Venmo: @little-study (all proceeds will go to mutual aid)
