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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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    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."

    We wanted to make this zine to wrap our own heads 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.



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