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Our bookshelf is curated to share ideas and resources that từ từ thinks are worth spreading.

All creations are inspired by other creations. Each one is a gathering — of ideas and resources. We want to share here the brilliant work that inspire the making of từ từ.


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    Making A Fuss
    ✧ 180,000đ ✧
     
      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.

    • How does the concept of "making a fuss" relate to love?


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


























          Whose story deserves to be told, remembered, and empathized with? Who is silenced? And who gets to decide?

          Daring To Archive encourages us to offer a counter-narrative to the dominant status quo regardless of how “small” our voices are (with examples and some resources).





















        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.


        What’s inside:
        • A playbook on building immunity against abuse
        • Understand gaslighting
        • 10 survival tactics
        • Questions to spot abuse
        • Resources on narcissism
        • The biggest point about surviving abuse




























          HOW TO HUG
          ✧ 80,000đ ✧


          Are we hugging to get it done? Or are we hugging to enjoy?

          In every hug, there’s an opportunity for those involved to share a brief moment of resting, rejuvenation, feeling safe, and feeling seen. Yet, because this process is vulnerable, and thus requires courage, many of us have been viewing hugs as if it is medicine – one to get done with or run away from.

          This zine offers a Từ Từ’s way of hugging. With a two-word mantra: ‘Just Stay’, we hope all of us can allow ourselves and others to sink into the embrace of each other to feel seen and special.






















            Pattern Theory & Living Designs
            ✧ 80,000đ ✧


            In this nerdier (academic) zine series called “What’s Love* Got To Do With It?” published in a Japanese journal, PTP.VOYAGE, we introduce thinkers that use love as a guiding force in their respective field. Christopher Alexander, through his theory on Pattern Language, transformed architecture and design by pioneering human-centered, pattern-based principles that harmonize spaces with life (and inspire fields beyond his own). But not a lot of people know that his theories stem from his emphasis on love.