The Case of the Suitcase (2025)

The Case of the Suitcase (2025) is a playful experimental zine created by two friends who love eating & feeding, and who have somewhat expert knowledge in the packing of cross-continental suitcases, Ryanair backpacks, and leaky foods sent from East Asia/Eastern Europe.

This 48-page, Riso-printed collection of investigative iMessage chats, queer/feminist food smuggling memories, low-tech recycling of containers containing things they were not built to contain, and the never-ending tug-of-war between a mother who wants to send too much food and the minimalist adult child who is tired of telling her to stop sending so much stuff. Lots of cute illustrations.

Three-colour riso 100% created and printed by humans. Get your copy at:

• Amsterdam: Pansy
• The Hague: Nowhere Bookstore, Page Not Found 
• Rotterdam: Kiosk Rotterdam, Printroom Rotterdam, Kunstinstituut Melly
• Croatia & book fairs across Europe: Riso & Friends (Rijeka)

Suitcase Events:

• Oct/Nov TBA: Workshop at Pansy Amsterdam
  Apr 3: Book launch at Kiosk Rotterdam, together with our publisher Ana Labudović
• Feb 21: Soft launch at Blind Date with a Book (Kunstbar, The Hague), organized by The Hague Creators

Edition of 200. Complementary A4 fold-out poster. 
Languages: Doodles, English, Croatian, Korean, Romanian

Created by Burta Qollective (Ioana Lupașcu & Jiye Seong-Yu). Published by Riso & Friends, Rijeka, Croatia.

The Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology Vol. II by Unwanted Words (2026)

Contains: Labour, For Rania, and Home – Love poems dedicated to three people who have shaped who I am, who continue to fight to make the world a little bit better every day. Get your copy online (€ 24, Paperback) or in person at Poetry International (June 3-6).

From the publisher:

The Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology Vol. II: Queer Joy & Gender Euphoria Edition is a bilingual collection in Dutch and English featuring the voices of 51 LGBTQ+ poets and spoken word artists based in The Netherlands.

This edition celebrates queer joy, gender euphoria, pleasure, pride, softness, and the power of collective imagination. At a time when queer stories are so often reduced to trauma, loss, or survival, this anthology invites you to reimagine alternative futures and center hope, love, and the freedom of becoming yourself. Through poetry and spoken word, these writers reclaim joy as something deeply radical: a form of resistance, healing, and transformation.