Yearly Archives: 2021

In this Q&A with Phin founder, Bao Nguyen, Jess Boyd delves into the poetry, passion and proverbs behind the coffee shop that creates community and caffeinated comfort in Seattle's Little Saigon.

The video series “Generation tales” takes place between different times and places. By connecting fragments of past, present and future, the diasporic becomes a lived experience.

News from the Diaspora►There was $100K in the car when police pulled them over. There was no crime, but the police took the money. ►Walk...

Working From Home / may ở nhà is a book that weaves together journalism, illustration, and oral history to tell the stories of Vietnamese outworkers in Australia. In this conversation, James W. Goh talks with fashion writer Emma Do and illustrator Kim Lam about how they came to publish a book about those sewing from home, the process of recuperating neglected history, and the precarity of migrant labour. 

I clutch my phone tightly and press the little glowing call button next to “Mom.” With every ring, I imagine invisible electronic waves pulsing through the air, trying to connect.You answer, propping your phone against the basket full of mint and basil you’re preparing for phở that night.“Mom is cooking, but I’m listening. What do you want to talk?”

On the surface, it is a love story about two people, Anna and Quan, both struggling under the weight of their experiences and expectations.

On Thursday, October 21st, 2021, ÁCCENTED will be joined by legendary actress Kiều Chinh, Ysa Le from the Vietnamese International Film Festival, and Jes Vũ from CAPE in conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Vietnamese diasporic cinema. They'll be discussing their work, careers, and ventures in the community, and share insights and wisdom into how we can continue to amplify diasporic narratives in the film industry.

my mother tugs my hand. / she shouts, as if i am / fifteen years old leaving / our apartment at night.

The questions that I saw them live, I tried to articulate in my works, which is: what is the use of joy in the aftermath of violence? More specifically, how do women, particularly Vietnamese women, manifest care when often it is men who create these wars? And it is women across our species who literally clean up and pick up the pieces.

I used to be embarrassed by the faded and slightly sticky blue linoleum. / By that accidental smell made by the neighboring bottles of spices and sauces / that shouldn’t be combined. / By the overly general name: ASIA MART. / They’re more welcoming now.