The Duet of The Exodus is a bilingual zine parcel composed of 11 individual booklets, published by Pearl Slug Studio in collaboration with The Wishing Fountain and QueerPatch. Bringing together life narratives, visual works, writings, archival fragments and personal voices from queer Sinophone diasporic communities, the publication responds to the entangled experiences of migration, language, intimacy, fractured identity and collective memory.

Designed as a parcel that can be opened, separated, passed on and reassembled, the publication treats each booklet as both a letter and an echo. The works come from different people, cities and lived contexts, yet together they speak toward a queer diasporic experience that cannot be fully contained by a single identity, language or fixed location.

The project attends to the social and linguistic gaps often experienced by queer Sinophone people living overseas: the difficulty of naming oneself across languages, the negotiation of desire within family, migration, race and gendered expectations, and the need to build archives where public narratives are absent. Rather than presenting these experiences as a unified community story, The Duet of The Exodus preserves their ruptures, hesitations, mistranslations and polyphonic forms.

As part of The Wishing Fountain's ongoing queer Asian / Sinophone diasporic publishing practice, The Duet of The Exodus understands small-scale publishing as a form of cultural infrastructure. It carries not only text and image, but also relations, emotions, unfinished languages and routes of finding one another. Materials and questions from the publication later developed into the Queer Manifesto creative writing workshops and zine project, extending its inquiry into how queer diasporic communities create shareable public memory through writing, reading and self-publishing.