The Wishing Fountain
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The Wishing Fountain is a queer Asian diasporic publishing, archive and public cultural platform. It collects, purchases, commissions, translates and circulates queer publications, zines, artist books, personal narratives and community texts from East Asian, Southeast Asian and Sinophone diasporic contexts. Through pop-up reading rooms, workshops, exhibitions, public programmes and online archives, it makes space for voices that are often left out of mainstream libraries, art institutions and national narratives.
Its work includes building a queer Asian, ESEA and Sinophone diasporic publishing collection, supporting the circulation of independent publications by artists and small presses, and organising pop-up reading rooms, zine workshops, creative writing sessions, artist talks and community archive projects. It collaborates with artists, bookshops, libraries, researchers, queer community groups and cultural organisations to explore publishing as a practice of memory-keeping, relation-building, desire-making and resistance against erasure.
With Queer Patch it collaborated on The Duet of The Exodus, a bilingual zine parcel of 11 booklets of queer Sinophone diasporic narratives, published by Pearl Slug Studio and launched in London, Bristol and Manchester; and it co-created the exhibition White Noise of Belonging at King’s College London in November 2025.
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