Landscape of our Body

As queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fractured at the crossroads of displacement from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also from our own bodies, which society conditions to drift away from our most authentic existence. Yet these bodies are the vessels we sail to embark on a lifelong voyage of return to our original selves. It is our bodies that navigate the treacherous tides of normative systems that impose themselves on our being. And it is our bodies that act as community lighthouses for collective liberation. Ultimately, the landscape of our bodies is our blueprint for remembering, for healing, and for blooming.