The Trauma Dumpling Zine Launch with Dr Xi Liu & Takeon Publishing

Come celebrate Dr. Xi Liu's much anticipated second zine release at The Bearded Tit on August 15th!

We're incredibly quickly selling out of our first printing of Noodles & Neurosis 2: The Trauma Dumpling so you - yes you - can preorder a copy of our second printing to pick up at our launch event! The event itself is FREE to attend, but bookings are essential as spaces are limited!

If you haven't gotten a copy of the first zine worry not - it will be available for purchase on the night :)

We'll have readings from guest readers Annie Huang & Adrian Mouhajer, both reading their own works. Xi will read something of theirs, then we'll have a Q&A discussion with Xi & Annie about the zines, the process behind them, mental health and intersectionality. 

Hosted by the wonderful Mami Maitai, the event will run from 7pm to 9pm and entry is FREE - if you'd like to preorder a copy of The Trauma Dumpling to pick up on the night those will be $15 each.

That's Thursday Aug 15 at The Bearded Tit, 7 to 9pm - we'll see you there!

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The Trauma Dumpling is the second zine in the Noodles & Neurosis series by Dr. Xi Liu, Clinical Psychologist. The first chapter is a nonfiction interview in conversation with US based Clinical Social Worker and Schema Therapist Liz Lacy, discussing the Emotional Deprivation schema. The second chapter is Xi's script from their talk originally presented on March 7th, 2024 at Marrickville Town Hall for Gaysian Stories, a storytelling event featuring prominent LGBTQI+ Asian speakers from different walks of life. The final chapter is a poem about shifts between cultural understandings of geopolitics, and what that means.

Annie Huang runs Studio Kinaesthetic, focusing on branding, content and design for businesses, and Takeon Publishing, an independent publishing house focusing on zines, comics and art books. With 20+ exhibitions since 2010 and 15+ zine fairs since 2016, Annie's specialty is in managing creative projects, from concepts to products or events (or both). They've been involved with the comics community since 2012 after releasing their graphic novel 20/20 (shortlisted for the Comics Arts Awards Australia 2022, available from the libraries in the Inner West Council, State Library NSW and the National Library). Annie is the editor and curator of Budlife Magazine, a seasonal magazine about plants, art and philosophy. 

Adrian Mouhajer is a queer non-binary Lebanese-Australian writer and editor from Western Sydney. Their work centers on spirituality, desire, love, grief, and understanding. They have performed their poetry for Bankstown Poetry Slam, Queerstories, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar and Cement Fondu. Their work has been published with Sweatshop, Hardie Grant Books, SBS, Australian Poetry Journal, Aniko Press and Diversity Arts Australia.They were shortlisted for the 2023 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, 2022 SBS Emerging Writers Competition and the 2021 Sydney Opera House Antidote Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers. Adrian edited the anthology, Stories Out West, which centers LGBTIQ+ First Nations and CALD writers with a connection to Western Sydney.