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Vietnamese America: On ‘Good Refugees’, Fake News, and Historical Amnesia
Vietnamese Americans are at a crossroads: the rise of mainstream misinformation and pro-Trump sentiment in their communities is not a historical aberration, yet attempts to explain it draw exclusively upon the good refugee narrative and fail to interrogate the legacy of imperialism and liberalism that all Americans inherit.
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Violence Against Asian American Women Is Rooted in More Than Just ‘Hate’
Understanding the legacies of violence and resistance in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Learn more here.
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We Were Meant to be a Gentle People
A memoir in text + image + song. In this unique work of literary multimedia, author/musician Dao Strom navigates the spaces between shores, mother and father, two cultures.
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Winter Phoenix
A literature of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal.
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You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else
A bilingual English-Vietnamese poetry + visual art literature of fragments Learn more here.
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QTVietCafe: Feast of Resistance
In Vietnamese culture, food is a significant part of how families share recipes, history, and ancestral stories. Often times, Queer and Trans Vietnamese (QTViệt) communities are ostracized and shunned from this sacred kitchen.
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