nawa angel a.h.

nawa angel a.h., widely known as Moonyeka, is a chimeric creator working across containers of performance, qt nightlife, writing, experimental media and the divine. They're a settler fluttering between their sprawling roots amidst Tongva, Chumash, Chinook, and Duwamish lands. Moonyeka conjures queer erotic joy, animism, Ilocano imagination, and beyond. They center kilig as a compass to imagine thriving worlds for their communities. Moonyeka has the honor of homing into their interdisciplinary instigations as an Artistic Director of House of Kilig. i was never the siren (2024) is a film re-myth of the Siren archetype; the first installment of their multimedia project 'Harana for the Aswang' realized with House of Kilig collaborators. nawa draws upon queer and trans performance technologies in their writing, infusing nightlife, icon-myth-legend, drag, and kink. They work across a spectrum of genre: biomythography, hybrid, and the game writing. Recent publications include their multiverse of work centering Waling-Waling Orchids in smoke and mold; am i hot enough to kill?, an excerpt of (w)horrific hybrid prose, is featured in The Holy Hour anthology by Working Girls Press; FLASH-BANG featured in Lilac Peril. They've also been a curated writer for Khôra. waling-waling palpitations is their forthcoming, debut book with First Matters Press. It is a hybrid memoir full of lies. The text performs a surrealist ‘drag’ of an orchid encyclopedia in order to unbury the colonial displacement of their Ilocano matrilineal histories in queerness, gender, and love. The book experiments and interacts with performance, scanners, and photo-memory.