TỪ TỪ DIALOGUE
By asking the right questions, each dialogue is a chance to expand understanding, love, and joy.
Từ Từ Dialogue was created alongside our community from 2020 to 2023 using participatory research and play. It is a tool to foster conditions for understanding and love in the everyday life.
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You can experience or buy Dialogue Cards offline from lovely friends of Từ Từ:
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18/1 Ngô Thời Nhiệm, Võ Thị Sáu, District 3, Hồ Chí Minh
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52 Đỗ Quang, Thảo Điền, District 2, Hồ Chí Minh
- 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
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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."
- 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.
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.