On today's episode of the podcast, I have a conversation with my friend that kept me sane through quarantine, Khue Vi Tran. We unpack a lot of important topics, primarily focusing on how to embrace our own identities within a reductionist capitalist framework. We breakdown our identities as Asian American dancers, learning the shape of our fear and emotions, and what it means to center the most marginalized communities.
\nKhue Tran (she/her) is a member of the Political Education committee in Asian Solidarity Collective. As a queer Vietnamese woman from Westminster, California who grew up in an immigrant household deeply impacted by discussions of war and trauma, she aims to hold space for critical conversation about how mainstream media, culture, and language impact the ways in which our bodies move through this world. Drawing on a background in both biology and psychology, her personal mission is to center progress over perfection. "I challenge us as Asian Americans to dismantle and decenter white supremacy in our communities while centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives through difficult conversations, questions, and uplifting lived experiences."
\nBelow is a list of Instagram handles, be sure to check them out!
\n@khueyonce
\n@asiansolidaritycollective
\n@mind.in.movement
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