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Meta Eulogy: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan By a Vietnamese American Part 1 Part 2
A creative fiction meditation on cultural memory, media, and the mythology of the Vietnam War.
02
Master Cultural Translator: Octavia Butler
The effect of reading Octavia Butler on a burgeoning Vietnamese writer.
03
Quốc Ngữ: The Shackle that Became the Sword
When the introduction of language to facilitate colonization becomes a tool of revolution…
04
Truyện Kiều: The Heirloom of Dissidence
Vietnam’s national treasure Poet, Nguyễn Du, celebrated for his revolutionary tactics in a country that imprisons dissidence.
05
The Freedom to Write: Vietnamese Dissident Writers
The freedom of expression enjoyed by many Vietnamese in the diaspora is a fundamental right that was hard-won by writers who sacrificed their lives in Vietnam so that we can manifest the words that we imagine.
06
On the Topic of Erasure, People of Color Destroy Science Fiction
I write about my people so that I won’t get erased. Not by the “they,” but by myself—by the “we,” “me,” “I,” “us.” The “exiled.” The “diaspora.” The ones that fled, died, killed, and sacrificed for “Tự Do.” For freedom.
