Posts from January 2020
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Activism, Community, Imperialism, Refugees
Buna: on the culture, creativity, and self determination of East African refugees
January 27, 2020
Walking into a Starbucks coffee shop in San Diego, California one Sunday morning I was struck by two large images mounted on the wall: one of Ethiopian farmworkers sifting through a wide spread of roasted coffee beans and the other of a jebena, a fragile and sanctified coffee brewing device that many Ethiopian and Eritrean women in the diaspora maintain like a holy grail…
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DVAN in France
January 13, 2020
What is the role and place of the diasporic Vietnamese intellectuals and artists in society? Is it to represent the community or be free from the obligations to represent? But if freedom is tied to the very story we have in our head and can be reframed, could this question be too narrow, too simplistic in a way.
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