Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19
DAY 72: VIET THANH NGUYEN
Author, Scholar, Activist, Los Angeles, CA
During this global pandemic and civil unrest, Nguyen has been speaking out. One example is his conversation in the podcast series hosted by Paul Holdengraber, “The Quarantine Tapes.”
What portal or door will we go through? Nguyen talks about his responsibility as a writer to illuminate how colonization and systemic racism were embedded in the beginnings of this country under the guise of the “American Dream.”