Yearly Archives: 2013

Coming Out, Coming Home—Thao P. Nguyen’s ‘Fortunate Daughter’

Recently diaCRITICS managing editor Julie Thi Underhill attended Thao P. Nguyen's "one-dyke" tragicomedy show Fortunate Daughter at the intimate Impact Theater in Berkeley, where...

Dao Strom: This is Why.

This is the wound we came out of.§ More than three decades later, we say the war is over, lives are better now, we are safe, and we consider ourselves healed. We tell ourselves by now we “should” be healed.

August 2013 News and Events

August 2013 news and events updates relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re looking for...

Cataclysm, an origin tale, by Dao Strom

+++ Beginnings are cataclysmic.The birth event, the crossing, the passage across the now-new threshold—all involve something upheaved, abandoned, wrought or obliterated in their wake. A...

Dao Strom’s ‘We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People’

We Were Meant To Be A Gentle People (East EP) is a hybrid music-literary project, by author/songwriter Dao Strom, a 6-song EP album accompanied by a book of prose and poetry fragments, images, lyrics, and text arrangements on Vietnam - as a late-century mythology, a war, a word, an exodus, an inheritance/disinheritance.

July 2013 News and Events Updates

July 2013 news and events updates relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re looking for...

Elements of Restraint and Surprise: Fashion Designer Tung Vo

 Vinh Nguyen shares with us Tung Vo's refugee story as he escapes Viet Nam in the mid-1980s and makes his way into Canada's underground...

July 2013 News and Events

July 2013 news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.It’s time for our second subscriber drive. We’re looking for 100...

Anvi Hoàng: Nổi giận đúng không bao giờ muộn | The Right Kind of Rage

Cross-cultural encounters can be an experience fascinating, exotic, interesting, frustrating, and anything else in between. Here, not so different from the rendition or feeling...

A Review of Andrew Lam’s Birds of Paradise Lost

Some of you might be familiar with Andrew Lam's previous work "Perfume Dreams: Reflections of the Vietnamese Diaspora" and "East Eats West: Writing in...