Issue 40: Yes, I talk shit. by nawa angel a.h.
I was born with blood in the rice / I walked up the rice terraces one thousand times / I fed one million people with my thighs...
Yes, I talk shit. by nawa angel a.h.
I was born with blood in the rice
I walked up the rice terraces one thousand times
I fed one million people with my thighs
And when I ate swamp fish they adorned my skin with rainbow scales, now
I stay equal parts salty and fresh
(Duyong)I reset my nervous system back to pandan fields
back 7 generations
I do not glorify the work,
I grind for the fun of infinity 88
Dayang-Dayang is my nicknameI designed the harvest dances without the Spanish crown
My rice dance makes it rain free hormone therapy,
My sun melts prisons,
My waterfall erodes borders and duplicates time resource so we can feed each other vegan
bibingka, lugaw, eachothers lips and….
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nawa angel a.h. (widely known as Moonyeka) is a chimeric creator working across containers of performance, qt nightlife, digital art, experimental media and the divine. They're a settler fluttering between Chumash, Chinook, and Duwamish lands. Within their mixed-diasporic-bakla embodiment, Moonyeka creates experiences of queer erotic joy, animism, Ilocano imagination, and beyond. Their collaborative processes center kapwa, maarte, and kilig as a compass to imagine thriving worlds for their communities.
i was never the siren (2024) is a film re-myth of the Siren archetype; the first installment of their multimedia project 'Harana for the Aswang' realized with House of Kilig collaborators.
nawa draws upon queer and trans performance technologies in their writing, infusing nightlife, states of con-myth-legend, drag, tease, and kink. You can find them frolicking in a spectrum of writing fields such as biomythography, hybrid-wtfness, and the game writing industry. They were recently published with their multiverse of work centering Waling-Waling Orchids in smoke and mold. am i hot enough to kill?, an excerpt of (w)horrific hybrid prose, is featured in The Holy Hour anthology by Working Girls Press. Recent publications include their multiverse of work centering Waling-Waling Orchids in smoke and mold; am i hot enough to kill?, an excerpt of (w)horrific hybrid prose, is featured in The Holy Hour anthology by Working Girls Press.
Issue 40 Highlights
Issue 40: Force of Nature by Michael Nagle | Artwork by Kirk Read
Issue 40: Our Lady of the Thaw by Marina Gross-Hoy
Issue 40: Yes, I talk shit. by nawa angel a.h.
Issue 40: sporadically present by Featured Artist S.J.
Issue 40: everyday awe by Mayur Chauhan
Issue 40: Momma's Love Itch by Featured Writer Elizabeth Woody
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