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BIAS Press / 偏差社

We are an independent press centred on the publications by East Asian female and queer artist, while also paying attention to marginalised groups and subcultures.

The name BIAS comes from survivorship bias, we question what’s left, and what’s missing.

The main visual identity is inspired from the Trolley Problem: a switch, a track, and the illusion of choice.
But you can always choose reading.

LESBIAN SLANG IN CHINESE

Siting Yao @cicada_yao

LESBIAN SLANG IN CHINESE

A6 riso printed zine & book, with orange and green ink, Crush corn paper 85gsm

Lesbian Slang in Chinese is a queer feminism publication project. It includes an A6 folded zine and a dictionary-style publication, both printed with risograph orange and green ink on Crushcorn paper.
The zine introduces six lesbian-related slang terms in Chinese, while the dictionary features 40 terms.
Some of these terms are derived from phonetic translations, while others originate from amusing anecdotes. In addition to the Chinese-speaking queer audience, the bilingual format expands the project's target audience to include English speakers who are unfamiliar with Chinese queer culture. It seeks to bridge cultural and linguistic divides through creative publishing methods. By translating and explaining these terms, I hope to foster greater understanding and connection across cultural and linguistic boundaries, ensuring that the voices and experiences of Chinese queer individuals are more widely accessible and appreciated.

( In Between )

In Between @inbetween_magazine

(InBetween)

In Between is a bilingual magazine exploring the creative journeys and inner worlds of a new generation artists, designers, and cultural practitioners.
Through in-depth conversations and written reflections, we seek to document how they perceive, express, and navigate through multiple realities.
The name In Between originates from our sensitivity to a particular condition shared by many creators today - one that resists fixed identities, final forms, or binary definitions. Initially, we described this as an 'in-between state', a term inspired by phenomenological thinking and used to describe a condition of becoming, transition, and ambiguity.
While this idea still informs our perspective, In Between is not limited to that concept alone. Rather, it serves as an open space to engage with those who move along the edges - between painting and film, belief and commerce, urban environments and intimate rituals.
What we truly care about is the creator's attentiveness and honesty - how they confront uncertainty, how they negotiate tension, and how they speak in a voice that may be small, but resonant. In Between doesn't offer final answers.
It records fragments, hesitations, intuitions - and through them, a different kind of clarity.

She is...

Siting Yao @cicada_yao

She is...

A6 riso printed zine, with fluorescent pink and black ink, Crush corn paper 85gsm.

The right to be educated is an important part of women's right. But access to education for women remains limited in some parts of the world. Almost two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are women. To celebrate the rights of women to read, write and raise awareness of literacy injustice, the artist selected a photograph collection of women who are reading and writing in the Havard digital collection, investigated what they are reading and writing.