‘Stop Asian Hate’ flooded the global newsfeed, the shooting a brutal reflection of the anti-Asian sentiment already heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic. He killed eight people, six of whom were Asian. On 16 March 2021, a 21-year-old white male entered three massage and spa parlours in Atlanta, Georgia, and opened fire. In the following conversation, which took place in the wake of a spate of high-profile anti-Asian hate crimes, Vuong discusses Asian American literature with the performance artist and writer Alok Vaid-Menon. ‘Ocean, don’t be afraid,’ the author writes, ‘The most beautiful part of your body / is where it’s headed.’ In his first collection of poetry, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (2016), is a poem entitled ‘Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong’.
Vuong’s writing gives clarity to tender feelings. Their relationship is underscored by migration, loss, inherited trauma and the difficulty of navigating working-class life in America. It is an epistolary novel, written from a son, affectionately called ‘Little Dog’, to a mother who cannot read. To donate to support our fight against the attack on reproductive autonomy and all the attacks that follow, please visit: To get involved in our people power effort to protect abortion access, please visit: aclu.‘Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you,’ begins Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). We let this conversation run long because we wanted you all to experience it and take it in as we did. This is a really special conversation and our team, quite honestly, all felt gob-smacked by Alok’s perspective. They challenge us all to use our imagination to re-wire what we believe is possible for ourselves and society around us. They are the author of Femme in Public, Beyond the Gender Binary, and Your Wound/My Garden.Īlok has done a lot of work to interrogate their history, our collective history, and to probe beneath the surface of what we’ve come to accept as the norm. To that end, we’re bringing you a conversation with Alok Vaid-Menon, a nonbinary writer, performer, public speaker, activist and artist exploring the themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.
These attacks are actually all part of the same movement, a movement against bodily autonomy and our ability to live freely no matter our model or make, a movement to re-entrench gender hierarchy and binary thinking. Wade, blocking people who can get pregnant from abortion care. At the same time, the Supreme Court is on the precipice of delivering a final decision that will likely overturn Roe v. So far, we’re tracking roughly 280 state bills that have been filed ahead of or during this legislative session. This year brings an unprecedented surge of anti-trans legislation banning everything from sports participation to healthcare access.
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