How do we find solidarity and community through food? ESEA (East and Southeast Asia) queer female creative collective ‘SPILLLL’ has explored this question, launching their first zine filled with discussions on food and feminism from Japan, South Korea, and Thailand.

SPILLLL aims to bring feminist/non-binary, queer, multicultural, and ecological narratives to the table like a salad bowl. In the foreign country of UK, its members found solidarity over home-made Asian food, discussing feminism and queerness through dinner conversations.

Often, women’s cooking and chitchat are slighted as being ‘domestic’ and therefore insignificant. Yet, SPILLLL celebrates the dining table as a seedbed for political discussions and transnational solidarity, inviting readers to join the conversation.

After exploring communal, conversational making through the ALTAR-ation workshop at the Brompton Cemetery Chapel and SPILLLL exhibition at the Hockney Gallery, SPILLLL has just launched their first zine, SPILLLL vol. 01. This zine is a pilot issue of a series on conversations around the dining table. From recipes to personal experiences as queer ESEA female immigrants, SPILLLL vol. 01 weaves political issues with something so close and familiar to our daily life—food.

This compact A5-size, 28-page, risograph-printed zine packs a full punch of multi-cultural recipes, feminist-queer history, foodie vocabularies and more.