Monthly Archives: May, 2021

i could have been a painter.//she tells me, proud./but i chose freedom.

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to the Vietnamese diaspora and to Việt Nam.

My father’s typewriter was both an object of transit and an object of passage, and looked like a real suitcase. One could easily imagine that he had arrived from his native Tonkin carrying his typewriter case elegantly as his only baggage.

The Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network is thrilled to announce Ink & Blood, a new joint imprint focused on diasporic Vietnamese literature from DVAN and...

The distance between America and Vietnam is 8,568 miles. The weight of your father’s burdens outweighs and overpowers anything you will ever experience.

Lucky Ticket takes its place alongside other collections like Andrew Lam’s Birds of Paradise Lost, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, and Nam Le’s The Boat.

"And if solidarity is love, we should be pushed to pursue a solidarity that is not just conscious of being against white supremacy, US imperialism, patriarchy, or global capitalism [wrongfully marketed] as separate systems– but a solidarity for an anti-imperialist, socialist, decolonized world that necessitates Black liberation– and which knows we must take down the US empire in its entirety to achieve so."

Every time I paint, I try to put myself in this position, through my mother's eyes and I imagine what she could see and feel.

The entrance to the library is forbidding enough – the library’s six-storey wings run north and south of the tower like fortress walls – but once inside, through the pass card activated turnstiles, the Library opens itself up to the willing reader.

When: 5:30 p.m. PST, Friday, May 14th, 2021 Where: Facebook LivestreamThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is collaborating with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American (APA)...