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We’re thrilled to announce that SilkPride.org is officially live! 🌈✨ After months of planning, designing, and curating, we’re excited to share our digital home with you... Wait, that sounds so familiar! But what is new from Jan you asked? ✅ Items – Now we are showing details on our collected items. ✅ Membership login - Now you can join the community directly. What’s Next? Incubator, podcast and store items in the coming months. Our goal is to create an interactive, evolving

Collect To Return We don't horde. All physical artifacts can be claimed back. Exhibit To Interact Flags should be waved and united under not framed and tucked away. Queer then China Queerness defines/deconstructs our identities, overriding the experience being Chinese. We Grow Together We Fight Together With the Chinese diaspora & local communities. Collab is everything. Mind the Gaps We thrive to fill the tech, financial, accessibility, and geographic gaps. Hiatus Implies Ho

We’re thrilled to announce that SilkPride.org is officially live! 🌈✨ After months of planning, designing, and curating, we’re excited to share our digital home with you—a space dedicated to celebrating queer Chinesemess, which we call the Silkpride. What You’ll Find on Our Website Our new site is more than just a landing page—it’s a growing archive, a community hub, and an incubator for ideas. Here’s what you can explore right now: ✅ Exhibits – Discover our curated collectio

The final contenders: "White Deer" Postcard, XXXX Volunteer Day Art, and This Is Me (2022 IDAHOBIT Video). Two hours in, I knew I was overthinking it. You know, launching the website on Day 1 and the blog framework on Day 2 were easy. Choosing Item 1 for the archive just felt quiet monumental. "White Deer" is a multi-layered creation—song, lyrics, and drawing, packaged as a postcard. It feels nostalgic, just a stamp away from home—a perfect Chinese choice. But is it queer eno

"One day, we will give ALL of these back." At Silkpride, we preserve—but we do not hoard. We archive—but never possess. We collect only to share, inspire, and RETURN. This is not a metaphor. It is a vow. Silkpride began humbly, with an email and a heartbreak. As queer organizations in Mainland China were forcibly shut down, some leaders faced an impossible choice: destroy years of queer history and community project outcomes, or risk by trying to keep it. In a quiet act of re