Hieu Minh Nguyen explores love and closure as a queer Vietnamese American in his stunning poetry collection.
How are you doing today, Marigold? my therapist asks me. She looks comfortable, sprawled against her spinning leather armchair the way a man would sit. Maybe she seats herself like a man because she knows she has the upper hand against me, every appointment an unconscious match-up: her…
Diaspora(n.): the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. How is it that we find ethnically similar people in vastly different areas? Diaspora. Simply put, diaspora refers to people moving outwards from their home country into other nations. Diaspora can also…
On most mornings, while walking to campus, I come across a million smartphones carrying a million people. Bent heads and screensavers, a connectedly disconnected universe. A place where you would rather put on earphones than talk to the stranger nearby or fiddle with your phone gallery than create…
South Asian. Lived in East Asia. International student. Daughter of immigrants. South campus major. Where is the “artist” in these labels? Where is the Disney Princess movie being made about my life? Are the mammoth residential buildings housing hundreds of families in Hong Kong not worthy of Walt…
On Oct. 1, AJ+ published a video featuring Vietnamese refugees sharing their experiences as boat people. In the second half of the video, Vietnamese refugees make remarks on the present-day Syrian refugee crisis, voicing their solidarity with the Syrian refugees. Vietnamese refugees in AJ+’s “I Was A Boat…