On Earth with Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Im I Fit in an I Don't Fit
The great conundrum of the second generation is that they want to be seen. And what a better way to make something and fill yourself with agency than to be an artist? So many of us immigrant children end f betraying our parents in order to subversively achieve our parents dreams. I don't think i benefit from them seeing me as ocean bong, the writer. They lose this idiosyncratic, familiar selfhood when they become a public figure. The refugee crisis brought forth a more diverse strata of vinmes americans in America. It took them a long time to really see value in what i was doing,. Why should i demand their interests when so much of their lives
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