December 2010
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“trong hang bê-lem
ánh sáng tỏa lan tưng bừng
nghe trên không trung
tiếng hát...”
– all i want for christmas.
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microaggressions:
My mom tells me that she feels guilty about never teaching me how to speak Vietnamese growing up, but felt like she had to or else I wouldn’t have done as well in school. And people always ask how I learned to speak English so well.
Makes me feel angry & sad.
“Without art and culture, we wouldn’t have such deep ways of letting each other...”
– Julie Thi Underhil, diaCRITIC
Bà Triệu →
Hai Bà Trưng →
“me: ba yêu con bao nhiều?
dad: all my life.”
– during mass sunday, december 19, 2010.
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For a decade, Sống Thật Radio has waged war... →
Known as “Chi Vuong,” or “Older Sister Vuong,” Nguyen is founder of Sống Thật — Vietnamese for “live truthfully” — the country’s first Vietnamese gay and lesbian radio program, which she started 10 years ago in March. Broadcast every Sunday night on San Jose’s KSJX-AM (1500) and streamed online at www.songthat.com, the hourlong program seeks to...
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đồng tính luyến ái →
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Watchbao phi: the nguyens
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The Forgotten Ones: A Legacy of Agent Orange →
The Forgotten Ones: A Legacy of Agent Orange is made possible through a fellowship from the Renaissance Journalism Center at San Francisco State University. The Center’s Vietnam Reporting Project is a collaboration with Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy for reporting on the health and environmental consequences of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam. The project strives...
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Often difficult to be gay and Vietnamese says... →
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love how your name is so phonetically familiar.
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“Asian American designers have been able to navigate the demands of the fashion...”
– Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion.