Chika chika is a Tagalog word that translates to something along the lines of "chit-chat,” while its singular iteration, chika, means “gossip.” Although informal conversation like chika chika is often feminized, trivialized—and even demonized—we position chit-chat/gossip as a feminist practice and a tool for poetic world-building.
This zine was produced in collaboration with Brown and Proud Press and can be viewed here. In addition to the publication of the zine, my team and I organized an event called “Talking Shit with Myriam Gurba,” for which author Myriam Gurba read previously unpublished work. Cultural organizer Erika Mei Chua Holum moderated a “gossip circle” that followed.