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title. the written wall
date. 2016
city. norfolk, va
size. collage 5in x 7in
Accepted to Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop 2022
Shortlisted for the Disquiet 2022 Nonfiction Prize
Nominated by Memoir Mixtapes for the Sundress Publication's 2020 Best of the Net Anthology
Accepted to Tin House Summer Workshop 2019
Nominated by Ghost Parachute for a 2018 Pushcart Prize
Awarded Makers City LA REEF Residency
Myself and collaborator Alyssa Manansala will use the REEF residency to develop an aesthetic, intellectual, and political discipline we have coined Decolonial Ekphrasis—a framework for decolonizing how art is viewed and understanding the reverberating effects of colonial trauma in intellectual and creative work. We will hold workshops and readings during the residency, with the aim of honoring, archiving, and studying decolonial and POC writers and scholars. Informed by this research, we will engage in interdisciplinary writing and visual arts projects around Asian American and Latinx media representations, along with memory, translation, gender, mythology, and power. By combining both archive and practice of radical POC and decolonial thought, Decolonial Ekphrasis attempts to investigate colonial histories within ourselves as a means of healing, empowerment, and artmaking.
Reading at Big White Sky Book Launch, June 3rd, 2pm