Jade Hidle
Reviews
Creativity During Confinement: Chicken of the Sea
The book showcases the joy of parents and children creating together, which is a positive opportunity to take advantage of during our pandemic confinement.
Literature
A Conversation about A Different Pond with Bao Phi and Thi Bui
Contributing writer Jade Hidle reflects on the role of reading in her own childhood, and speaks to Bao Phi and Thi Bui about their...
Reviews
Jade Hidle: Living History at VAOHP’s Vietnamese Focus Exhibit
diaCRITIC Jade Hidle visits the Vietnamese Focus: Generation of Stories exhibition, created by UC Irvine's Vietnamese Oral History Project. This immersive exhibit features photographs, videos,...
Literature
Jade Hidle Reviews Quan Barry’s She Weeps Each Time You’re Born
diaCRITIC Jade Hidle reviews Quan Barry's fiction debut, She Weeps Each Time You're Born, a novel that merges together Vietnamese history, magical realism, and heaps of dream-like imagery.
Reviews
Jade Hidle Reviews Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, A Good Fucking Play
diaCRITIC Jade Hidle reviews Qui Nguyen's exciting, hilarious, and moving play Vietgone. The play follows the love story of Nguyen's parents, and uses humor to discuss...
Music
Jade Hidle: Michael Nhat’s Experimental Hip-Hop in Heads on Sticks
Nhat unapologetically confronts the larger social context surrounding his personal background as an orphan survivor of the U.S. war in Viet Nam. In “The Racism I Go Through,” Nhat cuts through today’s oftentimes evasive and murky racial discourse by posing the question, “It’s 2014 and people are still this dumb? Fuck me!”
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Ham Tran’s “How to Fight In Six Inch Heels” Now Playing!
Hit movie "How To Fight in Six Inch Heels" arrives in the US! Jade Hidle tells us about it. Go see this movie! If you...
Music
Rapper Nah Nguyen’s “Địt Mẹ Cộng Sản” (DMCS) or “Fuck Communism,” Part 3
Lac Su, author of I Love Yous are For White People, interviews the rapper Son Nah: "Because I am a rapper, I got the voice to speak the truth, and the truth can’t wait any longer. The Vietnam government is selling our lands and seas to the Chinese government, our farmers and fishermen are suffering…"
Music
Rapper Nah Nguyen’s “Địt Mẹ Cộng Sản” (DMCS) or “Fuck Communism,” Part 2
To the Communist Party: First, I would like to send my apology for the offensive lyrics of the song (well, being communist, you’re already used to receiving curses), but let me strongly slap this letter on your table in order to get your attention.