Monthly Archives: January, 2011
DVAN’s Holiday Fundraiser—Reckoning with a Tour de Force
A managing editor of diaCRITICS remembers, in writing and in photographs, the holiday fundraising party celebrating the release of Isabelle Thuy Pelaud's long-awaited book...
You Have To Be Intimate With Your Despair
Electronic voice: "This recorded call is from an inmate at a California state correctional facility." Dylan Rodríguez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies...
Doing Time Has Its Nightmares
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Viet Mike Ngo, a writer, an activist, and a prisoner serving a life sentence, gives us a glimpse through the bars and into his...
Double Trouble: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives (Part II)
Viet Le introduces us to the visual artist Hồng-An Trương and her compelling work--part 2 of 2. This is the second installment on Hồng-An Trương’s...
Double Trouble: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives (Part I)
Viet Le introduces us to the visual artist Hồng-An Trương and her compelling work--part 1 of 2. In this two-part blog entry, excerpted from a...
Free Tickets to Banana 2: Asian American Bloggers Conference
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Into blogging? Asian American? Then Banana 2 is the event for you. Check out the press release and video below for the 2nd conference...
Dark Tourism to Pulau Galang
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Many will be familiar with the name Pulau Galang, a tiny Indonesian island just south of Singapore...
True Laws (Pt. 2) and a New Song
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In the course of the past couple of years, I have been trying to "accomplish" my work. Writing, music. Trying to get some foothold...
Remembering Tam Tran: UCLA’s Vietnamese Culture Night
By two days, the diaCRITICS editors have chosen to delay dao strom's sequential post — "True Laws (Pt. 2) and a New Song"—in order...
True Laws? (thoughts on selling "Vietnamese-ness" in America)
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I have struggled with how to use these tools - the endeavor of making art and the paradox of trying to share it with...