Intimacy shapes every aspect of our lives—from relationships, businesses, communities, to politics and our sense of self. Từ Từ offers consultation to communities, brands, individuals, couples, organizations and projects that want a lens on intimacy and deep experiences.
We carefully choose projects that empower and uplift the status quo.
Từ Từ delivers lectures, workshops, and training sessions that challenge the connection-deprived status quo and cultivate the experience of liberating love. Blending artistic practices, critical theory, and insights from fieldwork and community engagement in Nepal, the United States, Italy, Denmark, and Vietnam, our work reimagines intimacy, care, and relationality beyond imposed structures.
RESEARCH
Từ Từ receives research proposals from projects that challenge the narratives of domination, violence, and colonial thinking—redefining intimacy as a site of empowerment, revolution, and transformation.
Rooted in anthropology, critical theory, and artistic inquiry, our work examines how intimacy—whether in relationships, communities, or broader socio-political structures—is shaped by histories of colonialism, capitalism, and systemic oppression. Currently, Từ Từ is exploring the Architecture of Intimacy through Project Theory Probe, not only studying but also practicing intimacy as a form of world-building and liberation.
We welcome interdisciplinary projects that challenge dominant frameworks of love, care, and connection, centering decolonial, intersectional, and community-driven approaches. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Intimacy as a political and cultural force
Decolonial love and alternative relational ontologies
Care work, kinship, and radical interdependence
The ethics of care, presence, and embodied knowledge
Digital intimacy, surveillance, and algorithmic desire
Crip intimacy and disability justice
Migration, borders, and diasporic longing
We would love to be in touch with scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working across disciplines.
A reader of our zines at Zinner’s Fair (2024): Our effort to make our research accessible.