Book Launch – Reading My Panties 02: Queer Pillow Talk
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21.06.2025
Lu Lin
Reading My Panties 02: Queer Pillow Talk zine launch will be in the format of a reading group reflecting on the kickoff journey of the project. Being a queer is also means being part of a group/collective/community. With reading and listening, we unfold the hidden narratives within queer’s everyday panties by resonating and recognising. By cohosting with the contributors of the second issue, they will share a deeper context of their writings.
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Reading My Panties is an interdisciplinary project delving into innovative narratives by using mixed ways of presentation, such as installation, videos, zines and pedagogical workshops. The project aims to contextualise the complexity of marginalisation drawn on the theory of intersectionality and queer feminism, and using storytelling as a way to tear down the alienation between identity and our everyday clothes. Panties, understood as an item of women’s undergarment for the lower body, record our daily usage and expose our self-identification. From a very young age, we learn gender presentations of society and of appropriation through embodying our underwear. In this project, we see panty as a representation of femininity in order to trigger discourse about cross-culture, femininity, and queerness.