Monthly Archives: June, 2021

I left my country, carrying two things:/a passport printed with my Vietnamese name,/a black and white picture of my parents taken before I was born.

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The collection’s purpose—and indeed, the presence of Nguyen’s mother makes this collection feel more purpose-driven than preceding volumes, as the multitudinous perspectives of each poem accumulate into a wondrous sprawl—is to nourish the reader with tales of Diệp’s daring as a young woman and flying motorcycle artist before having left Vietnam.

When you care about somebody, you have connected with what I would call, in the work that I'm doing now, their goodness and their goodness is not positive or negative. It has something to do with what generates their existence.

“Baba, your heroes were his villains,” I explained, before telling him that many members of Sydney’s Vietnamese community were still traumatised from the war.

I'm not saying that our oppression is the same. It's not. It's not the same. But there's a way in which we need to talk about how they're different.

Q: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A VIETNAMESE AMERICAN WRITER?

You have to go to the deep personal part, you don't have to do it on purpose. It doesn't have to happen every minute, but there has to be these moments where you settle.

We demonstrate transnational solidarity with Asian American communities. With our political engagement and action, we want to raise awareness for and oppose anti-Asian racism.

Which Asian woman do you/blame for your choices now?