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She Who Has No Master(s) on the Collaborative… | The Poetry Foundation

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This collaboration was borne out of an invitation from the George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery in Salt Lake City to feature our work. After understanding the gallery space (two of its four walls were floor to ceiling windows), and the flexibility of setting up floating walls inside the gallery, SWHNM(s) met to discuss engaging with windows, specifically, to use familial photographs as an entrance point or portal into time, family history. We also wanted to enact a type of “collective voicing” that, while rooting itself in historic and cultural circumstances we have in common as women and nonbinary persons of Vietnamese diaspora, would also illustrate the individuality of experiences that exist within plurality. Each of us has family and personal, bodily histories that have felt the reverberations from war, displacement, refugee experience, intergenerational trauma. Our larger work as a collective was birthed as an act of reaching out of the isolation of such experiences, to bring o

What birthed this collaboration? This collaboration was borne out of an invitation from the George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery in Salt Lake City to feature our work. After understanding the gallery space (two of its four walls were floor to ceiling windows), and the flexibility of setting up floating walls inside the gallery, SWHNM(s) met to discuss engaging with windows, specifically, to use familial photographs as an entrance point or portal into time, family history. We also wanted to enact a type of “collective voicing” that, while rooting itself in historic and cultural circumstances

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