February 2011
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January 2011
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Watchcurate:
Thao + Mirah – How Dare You | Yours Truly
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The Toxic Truth About Nail Salons →
If you’ve ever stepped into a nail salon, you know the smell of a chemical cocktail that hits you like an invisible wall. While consumers may tolerate it during a short visit, the nail salon workers find themselves stewing in a toxic bubble for years…. The amount of nail salons has nearly quadrupled nationwide in the past decade. In California, about two-thirds of nail salon workers are...
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WatchCalvin Tran, giving it all away on The Fashion Show.
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better than the original.
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“Vietnamese Americans’ memories represent a thorn in normative history. The...”
– Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, this is all i choose to tell
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Of Another Fashion: This is my mom’s oldest... →
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This is my mom’s oldest sister Nguyen ThoDam at Honolulu International Airport on her way back to SaiGon, Viet Nam in 1965. She was studying abroad at Southern Illinois University from 1961-1965 and in a home economics class made that fabulous coat she’s wearing from a Vogue pattern. When I…
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WatchLa Petite Salon
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“This shop’s four walls endure, preserve and hold in all the emotions of...”
– Huong Nguyen, Ma’s Salon Brings Me the World
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“Kit Kat: $0.75
Skittles: $0.75
Potato Chips: $0.50
Hot Pocket: $1.00...”
– Scribbled underneath the rest of the student store menu. I’m one of three Vietnamese kids at school. All of us are girls. (via microaggressions)
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“And in Little Saigon I was a novelty, “exotic” with wallet-chain wrapped around...”
– Mimi Thi Nguyen, My Hair Trauma (1998)
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“This question is for Loretta. As a Vietnamese American, what do your parents...”
– Hyphen Magazine, An Interview with Designers 5733
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“I am just one of those old Asian moms. We never say we love you — we expect you...”
– Theresa Nguyen to daughter Stephanie at StoryCrops. (Transcript at NPR.)
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this is all i choose to tell: History and... →
In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text. In addition, she asks, can the term Vietnamese American be disassociated from representations of the war without...
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Monique Truong: Bitter in the Mouth →
This time Truong, who was born in Vietnam, sets to revealing the lies implicit in the question, “What is it like to grow up Asian in America?” Her first refutation is that the question should read, “What is it like to look Asian while being raised American in America?”
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“…I would trade in the skin on my bones for the seaweed forests of the ocean. Oh,...”
– mai đoàn, for the elders
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