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Making A Fuss



    Historically, the phrase "stop making a fuss" is used against the marginalized (notably, women) as a technology to put them in line. It is effectively saying, "You are wrong. Please stop creating drama on unnecessary things." But who decides what is wrong and right , what is un/necessary?

    In this booklet, you will find:

  • A discourse on love making a fuss.
  • How to “make a fuss” in your own community.
  • The use of projecation to create gatherings on fusses.
  • Stories by community contributors.

    • In bringing people together to make this booklet, we introduced 2 new concepts: One was "projecation", which is the structure that enabled us to experience, thus, created the booklet; Second is the concept of "making a fuss" in relation to love. 

    • 70 pages
    • an interactive booklet
    • communally created
    • multiple authors
    • for personal use and sharing circles


    Price: 180,000 vnđ

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    Daring To Archive




    • Whose story deserves to be told, remembered, and empathized with? Who will be silenced? Who gets to decide whose stories are told?
    • Being a young, petite, female Vietnamese in a mostly tall, old, white, male academic space, there is much barrier for me to have the resonance of my dialects heard. In July, I went to the biggest international Asian Studies Conference for academics and I was repeatedly told, "Wow, you are the only Vietnamese national that I meet in this event."
    • I wanted to make this zine to wrap my own head around the importance of archiving, especially when we see that our lives are insignificant; Recognizing that why we feel insignificant is not only psychological, it's historical, political, and social discriminatory violence on our people.

    Price: 80,000 vnđ

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      Knowing       The Werewolf

      What shocked us the most when we are working with communities who historically have been underserved and marginalized is (1) how kind these people are, and (2) how unkindly they allow the world to treat them. They don’t know that they deserve to be treated kindly in return. It is as if one-sided empathy and forgiveness are engineered into the abused to survive the abusive treatment. Overjustification, apologies, and forgiveness are tools that some people have been taught to do relentlessly at the expense of their own sanity for the comfort of the dominant one.


      Against popular notions of love, this booklet urges us to…

      STOP

      • blaming ourself for a moment
      • forgiving the other person
      • justifying for their misdeeds
      • spiritual bypassing our pains

      START

      • admitting that we were hurt
      • validating our own reality
      • placing accountability where it’s due
      • truth-speaking about our experiences

      Learning about Narcissism and On a macro level, by questioning who benefits from how we currently understand "love", I hope "love" widens to include the marginalized.


      Price: 200,000 vnđ














        How is it that people can discuss and work together to approach something they do not yet know?

        A loving relationship is a project. So is cooking a meal, drawing a painting, or building a religion. All projects start out with hope. Everyone involved wants it to succeed. However, it is not uncommon for projects to end in an undesirable way. We feel that there is more we can understand and need to do, and this feeling is what drives Project Theory Probe (PTP).

        If projects (and human creativity) cannot be explained by chance alone, then we must acknowledge the existence of some kind of ability that make projects possible. We want to investigate what this ability is, and how it has brought about our current civilization, and what possibilities it holds for the future.

        All human creation would not have taken the same path without the ability to talk and work together. PTP uses the word "project" to express how such an ability enables us to approach the unknown, which is at the core of what it means to be human. At từ từ, we see this as the ability to love.



        Read Project Theory Probe Journal here.










        • I received this printed copy at Plum Village after I joined several BIPOC friends organizing a standing ovation to call for more sangha involvement: To practice spirituality is to be more engaged in the world, not less.
        • “When bombs begin to fall on people, you cannot stay in the meditation hall all of the time. Meditation is about the awareness of what is going on — not only in your body and in your feelings, but all around you.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh
        • This zine provides us a language and resources to call for collective actions.








        Kitty:
        • I was roaring with laughter reading this accurate book about getting married. My partner and I declared that this must be how we would do our wedding, if we would ever.
        • Imaginative and shrewd, a must read for couples or anyone who plan to disrupt our business-as-usual wedding / marriage narratives.







        Kitty:
        • “Love” as how we know it today is heavily designed by the capitalist language.
        • This book talks about emotional labor / reproduction: How denying to see “caring as work” is a capitalist strategy to exploit those who care and subjugate women.
        • Warning: Great knowledge for liberation, but the writing style is quite… academic (that is to say, chunky and could have been made simpler).



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