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How can a single A3 sheet of cardstock become an 8-page zine? If you were to use the rise and fall of hormones to inspire a blood-toned cover, which shade would you choose? How many years have we lived with our own feminine bodies, and how many times has that pain occurred—sharp, dull, or spreading through the whole body?
A zine of our own uterus—beyond medical records, what else could it be? Write or draw what you want to say to your body, and leave a note for others’ uterus zines.
This is a continuation of the 2025 Women’s Bookstore workshop series “Where Pain Meets Creation” and a special event for the Taipei Art Book Fair. Participants of the workshop enjoy a 10% discount on booth purchases.
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Workshop Instructor
Kiki and Co. Studio — the one-person studio of Kiki. Her creative practice unfolds along a migratory path: four years in Beijing, four years in Hong Kong, and eight years in Taiwan. She is the author of the poetry and prose collection After I Die, I Also Want to Turn Blue: Poems and Diaries 2019–2024, the literary reportage collection Book of Displacement: Cross-Border Mobile Chronicles, and the zines Uterus and Afterlife. She is also a co-author of Arriving at Ankang: Stories of Vietnamese Migrants Around Us.
Kiki has received recognition including the SOPA Awards and the Excellence in Journalism Award, and was a 2024 resident writer at the Taiwan Literature Base. She is currently a contributing editor at Initium Media, and has previously worked as a journalist at Initium Media (Hong Kong), Ming Pao Weekly (Hong Kong), and as a freelance contributor for The Reporter (Taiwan).
In recent years, her work has increasingly embraced cross-media, multi-format approaches, including ethnographic writing, zines, botanical prints, modern poetry, field recordings, and environmental music. As a patient with endometriosis, she processes her own experiences of pain through the zine Uterus. In the summer of 2025, she initiated the “Where Pain Becomes Creation” Uterus series workshops at the Women’s Bookstore, which were attended by around 80 participants.
(Participation in the workshop requires the purchase of a TPABF ticket.)