Monthly Archives: October, 2022

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We’re excited to present our first special issue of diaCRITICS!

To listen to Sinn Sisamouth is to have a romance with oneself. 

I wanted to explore my Vietnamese roots and possibly blend them with my American roots. How could I incorporate that into my music and into my sound?

I wanted to create a new strong, independent picture of an Eastern or South Eastern Asian woman.

The beginning of the music video asks: “If life is a train of time, which year would you go back to change the most important thing?”

Kick up the volume and switch on the microphone: green light / activating my father's stage presence.

Since relistening to several Vietnamese diasporic songs a few years back, I’ve begun to interpret the lyrics as conveying a sense of tragic optimism, a pathos in Vietnamese diasporic music.

“Let’s sing it again,” she whispers, launching us into another round of Socratic dialogues.

I learned how to dance from Cô Dung. She ghosts my skin.