Mar is a cultural organizer, spiritual seeker, anticolonial educator, and seminary student. They are an avid reader, textile enthusiast, and student of printmaking. Mar joins FORTUNE with dreams of learning to do the slow work of liberation in community with others.

A teller of fortunes and (mis)adventures, Maya Yu Zhang (b. Zhengzhou, China) is an artist who is interested in deepening relationships between the physical and the spiritual realms by making images, rituals and experiences. Maya joins FORTUNE with a shared orientation towards collectivity and community wellbeing in the present, and a commitment to a liberatory future through textual and material engagements with history and its making.

Mika is a care worker, educator, and printmaker who is dreaming of futures that will grow from interdependence and intimacies of access. They find meaning in building relationships that center curiosity and play in their creative and interpersonal work. Mika is looking forward to co-creating accessible practices of gathering, learning, and care with FORTUNE.’

Oki Sogumi: I’m a writer/poet who grows a garden for moths. My forever fixation meal is rice, egg, sesame or perilla oil, gim and gochujang. I encountered FORTUNE as a contributor and am excited to learn and get hands on with printing and publications.

starKim is farmer-artist-organizer from Los Angeles, found presently in West Philadelphia Cedar Park. They believe in creating underground spaces and curation equal to and autonomous from traditional cultural institutions to encourage artistic relationships and relating outside of capitalism and academia. They have worked with both DIY venues and organizations like Vox Populi Gallery, Icebox Project Space, and the Institute of Contemporary Art with the aim of spotlighting QBIPOC experimental arts. They have are part of the arts organizing collective All Mutable, the art collective xtl (Exectuable Transmutational Lanaguage), and now FORTUNE.

Eva Wu is an interdisciplinary artist working across animation, installation, social practice, and new media. An optimistic visionary and an avid dreamer, Eva’s work conjures portals to utopias rich with seduction, delight, and color. Her work disrupts traditions in form and content, blurs the boundaries between public and private, and generates bold remedies of what could be. Her work is a spell for a world where freedom is not just possible, but inevitable.

Born and raised in Northern New Mexico under wide open skies, Eva has been getting radicalized in Philadelphia for over a decade. She has been awarded fellowships from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Leeway Foundation, Elsewhere Museum, and Center For Emerging Visual Artists. Eva is co-founder of Hot Bits Film Fest, with whom she collaborates to produce sex-positive art and film experiences centering QTIBIPoC self determined desire, joy, and pleasure.

Eva has been a proud cheerleader, admirer and frequent contributor to many of FORTUNE's community projects since Day One. Find Eva at eva-wu.com. 

feini yin is an artist, journalist, and organizer living in Lenapehoking. They got to know FORTUNE through its predecessor, A/PUBLIC, a convening and group show of femme and queer Asian artists that took place early 2018 at the Kelly Writers House. feini's work is based on deepening relationships with water, land, and fishing communities, building toward food sovereignty and collective liberation. They love to collect oral histories, make zines and audio stories, and facilitate creative workshops. Previously they reported on science and the environment for the New York Times and WHYY.

Juliana Feliciano Reyes is a writer and journalist between Metro Manila and Philadelphia. She writes the newsletter Other Kinds of Intimacy. She was formerly an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of Randolph College's low-res MFA program and a 2023 Lambda Literary fellow. In Philly, she drums with Korean percussion ensemble URIOL and organizes a Filipino potluck. In Manila, she tries very hard to speak Tagalog. Contributing (almost every single month!) to FORTUNE's zines in the Year of the Pig remains one of her favorite creative experiences to date.
Find Juliana at julianafelicianoreyes.com. 

Sophie দীপ্তি Sarkar (she/her) is a Bengali, Japanese, and English American artist and community organizer rooted in the Engaged Buddhist tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Her work includes paintings, children’s books, playground billboards, community workshops, spiritual songs, and more. Her guiding aspiration is to offer creative and spiritual support to social movements attempting to resist empire, build solidarity, and sustain life on Earth. She is looking forward to working with FORTUNE to develop as a collective, grounded in the wisdom of many of our queer and Asian ancestors.
Find Sophie at www.sophiesarkar.com. 

Andra Palchick is a memory worker who cares for information through print and archival processes. She approaches both as a public and dynamic practice, and a means to explore documentation, ritual, and celebration.  Andra is a co-founder and editor of the Philadelphia-based print collective, FORTUNE, and risograph imprint, Many Folds Press. It’s here that she’s found ceremony through regularity, form through function, and home — every day. Find Andra at apalchick.com. 

Connie Yu is a writer and artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice takes place in poetry and printmaking, cooking and strength training, and takes shape from the administrative aspects of these data — asking the limits and series of work and its measure, measure and its work. 

Connie curates, edits, and publishes work by/for queer and trans Asian artists with their print collective FORTUNE, which they co-founded in 2019; and operates to its small-scale risograph imprint Many Folds Press. This began with a taste of kinship after co-curating (with Adrien Hall and Monika Uchiyama) A/PUBLIC, which gathered queer and femme Asian artists working in varied avenues of art/writing/meaning-making for an exhibition, an early risograph zine, a library of personal (holy) effects, and a roundtable where we softly decided to continue to know/keep each other.

Connie is an arts administrator committed to sharing resources and asking questions that can make arts programs, grants, and projects more accessible, and more attentive, to more people. They are lucky to have learned from FORTUNE, and return to it everything they know. Find Connie at connieyu.one.  

Heidi Ratanavanich (b.1982 - Year of the Water Dog) is an artist based in Philadelphia with parts from Chicago and Thailand. Heidi loves making art in the spirit of collaboration and the collective. They make sculptural objects that reflect, hold and give space to time. They find joy in the classroom as both student and teacher. Their practice is slow, repetitive and unfolding. Family style dinner is a preference and yes, they are a notary public.