{"id":54573,"date":"2021-02-01T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=54573"},"modified":"2023-10-01T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T04:26:00","slug":"how-diacritics-creates-a-platform-for-diverse-vietnamese-voices-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2021\/02\/how-diacritics-creates-a-platform-for-diverse-vietnamese-voices-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"How DiaCritics Creates a Platform for Diverse Vietnamese Voices From Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written by Paul Christiansen. Top graphic by Hannah Hoang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVietnamese communities can sometimes\/often demand conformity and tradition of people in order to feel a part of things; I have always seen diaCRITICS as an opportunity to trouble the definitions, push the boundaries, to include the atypical voices and stories and viewpoints.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This statement, offered by Dao Strom, outgoing editor-in-chief of the online publication diaCRITICS<\/em>, serves as a fine introduction to the online publication that has been an important platform for diverse diasporic voices in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, photography, visual art and filmmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saigoneer<\/em> has long championed the US-based publication, sharing its articles on our social media platforms to great popularity. We had the opportunity to meet Dao in person during her visit to Saigon last year, which resulted in a more concrete partnership in which we re-publish some diaCRITICS<\/em> articles directly on our site<\/a>. While Saigoneer<\/em> generally focuses on people, places and topics within Vietnam, we share diaCRITICS<\/em>\u2019 aims to amplify the ideas and encounters of Vietnamese around the world and bring attention to stories of and about Vietnamese identity and experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origins and Evolution<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A photo from the 2017\u00a0<\/em>\u201cVietnamese Londoners\u201d exhibit<\/a>\u00a0founded by Julia Thanh, the first photography exhibition dedicated to the British-Vietnamese community.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

diaCRITICS<\/em>\u00a0is the publication platform for the\u00a0Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)<\/a>, which was founded in America in 2007 in response to the lack of Vietnamese representation in academia and popular culture. It disseminates news, holds writer retreats and exhibitions, publishes books and, most recently started Accented: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that brings together a variety of writers, poets, artists, actors, filmmakers, scholars, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporas for discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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