Troubling borders: an anthology of art and literature by Southeast Asian women in the diaspora

Wombs and Wounds: Family Relations in the Diaspora

Coming to Voice: Language, Writing, Literacy

Homes and Homelands

Loving Sex/Sexing Love

Militarized Lives

Asians in America

Race, Roots, Religion

Travel Narratives and Narratives That Travel

Speech Acts: Labor, Activism, Resistance.

Preface / Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Introduction / Mariam B. Lam et al.

Wombs and Wounds: Family Relations in the Diaspora

Open / Karen Llagas

Terrain 15 and Terrain 17 / Vi Ly

Manananggal / Karen Llagas

Postpartum #5 / Vi Ly

Rubber bands / Phayvanh Luekhamhan

Mending / Ann Phong

Mother Shell / Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen

Flesh of my flesh / Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen

Togetherness / Linda Saphan

30 / Anh-hoa Thi Nguyen

Visitation / Diep Tran

Tra Cang Monastery / Julie Thi Underhill

Schools / Diep Tran

Tet 1976 / Diep Tran

Way of life / Kao Lee Thao

Profile of the Life Tree / Anh-Thu Ngo

Grandma / Julie Thi Underhill

The lotus gift / Heang Ly

Broken / Amy Lee Sanford

Letter after Thanksgiving / Tran Mong Tu

Widow / Kou Vang

April, 1993 / Phayvanh Luekhamhan

Yukai / Kao Lee Thao

Foreman v. Moorer / Phayvanh Luekhamhan

Suspended / Amy Lee Sanford

Mother love / Phet Mahathongdy

Spool / Anne Le

Self and aunts / Phuong M. Do

My mother's hands bleed / Christilily Chiv

Letter from Laos / Kou Vang

Correspondence from Laos / May Lee-Yang

Still from Epilogue : the palpable invisibility of life / Tran T. Kim-Trang

Coming to Voice: Language, Writing, Literacy

Untitled VI (such as you are, so is the world) / Marine Ky

Jai Arun Ravine

Ted's garment / Marine Ky

From a lighthouse keeper / Karen Llagas

S-21 no flying away 1 / Linda Saphan

Polyglot incantation / Barbara Jane Reyes

S-21 no flying away 2 / Linda Saphan

S-21 no flying away 3 / Linda Saphan

Identities / Tran Tue Quan

Self and uncles / Phuong M. Do

The sun in Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away / Souvankham Thammavongsa

Keep it together #5 / Reanna Estrada

This is the direction / Souvankham Thammavongsa

Homes and Homelands

Impossible delineation (from the series Blank attempt) / Gina Osterloh

Archipelago dust / Karen Llagas

Anonymous front (from the series Copy flat) / Gina Osterloh

In the heart of the country / Anne Le

Blind rash (from the series Rash room) / Gina Osterloh

The fish houses at Go Vap / Anne Le

Go Vap / Tiffany Chung

National Highway 1 (Vietnam, December 1966) / Vo Hong Chuong-Dai

Description #3 (Three clocks) / Hong-An Truong

The corner of Nguyen Binh Khiem and Tue Tinh (Ha Noi, 2005) / Vo Hong Chuong-Dai

Forgotten / Kou Vang

Across the ocean and beyond the mind / Vo Hong Chuong-Dai

Palimpsest for generation 1.5 (performance) / Anida Yoeu Ali

I think of this every time I think of mountains / Phayvanh Luekhamhan

Homeless / Azizah Ahmad

Looking back, I accepted your invitation (from the series Somewhere tropical)

Song for a lost home / Anh Thang Dao

The pigeon scandal / Anh Thang Dao

Point of departure (nurse with cap) / Jenifer K. Wofford

Curtain nurse I / Jenifer K. Wofford

Loving Sex/Sexing Love

Cardiac / Angela Narciso Torres

Dark green / Debbie Nguyen

The story of pomegranate told in three pieces / Connie Pham

Plum / Debbie Nguyen

First and last times / Lian Guow

Three pearls facing unfaithfulness / Kao-Ly Yang

Wood / Debbie Nguyen

Kisses of heat / Chau Nguyen

Still from Kore / Tran T. Kim-Trang

On the tango and Buenos Aires / Mong-Lan

Militarized Lives

Virgin land, virgin body / Yer Yang

Still from Wheel in the sky / Hong-An Truong

Excerpt from the Reeducation of Cherry Truong / Aimee Phan

Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (performance) / Anida Yoeu Ali

The rumor of necessity / Pimone Triplett

Florida 1979 (Love you, miss you a lot) / Hong-An Truong

NutDriver / Gayle Romasanta

Florida 1978 (Goes to heaven) / Hong-An Truong

Excerpt from The inheritors / Kathy L. Nguyen

Call it Talisman (if you must) / Barbara Jane Reyes

Asians in America

This is not me / Lin + Lam

A letter to Asian America / Azizah Ahmad

God bless America / Melba L. Abela

San Francisco / Azizah Ahmad

Chinatown / Anne Le

Progress report / Julie Thi Underhill

The flea market / Linda Tran

Box of Water 2 / Ann Phong

San Francisco ab(ove) normal, 1967-2007 / Melba L. Abela

#6-Other female / Marsha C. Galicia-Monroe

Boats / Ann Phong

Race, Roots, Religion

Sea ghost / Nalyne Lunati

In the city, a new congregation finds her / Barbara Jane Reyes

Description #4 (Three figurines) / Hong-An Truong

The value of a Catholic education / Davorn Sisavath

Kranok 1 / Nalyne Lunati

Corner shore / Julie Thi Underhill

Vihara of the mind / Nalyne Lunati

General Tri-corn (6) / Reanne Estrada

Motherland / Pimone Triplett

Industry of yoga series / Eliza O. Barrios

Boobie cakes / Grace Talusan

Pending / Eliza O. Barrios

Travel Narratives and Narratives That Travel

Amey on bike / Linda Saphan

Suitcases / Chi Vu

Fear of ambivalence / Julie Thi Underhill

The sounds of leaving / Mai Der Vang

Salt lake / Rachel Guy Collier

Tenuous (tentatively titled) / Reanne Estrada

Leaving home / Pang Houa Moua Toy

Palimpsest for Generation 1.5 (installation view) / Anida Youe Ali

From within, a view / Mai Der Vang

Speech Acts: Labor, Activism, Resistance

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride (flowers) / Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.

Quarterlife crisis : a quiet activism / Connie Pham

Moments of silence (in memory of Joseph Ileto, Fong Lee, and Chon Buri Xiong) / Emily P. Lawsin

Incognito 31 / Linda Saphan

Where I am from (freewrite remix) / Emily P. Lawsin

International worker / Melba L. Abela

Here we go / Tiffany Chung

I demand respect / Grace Kong

Bubble Shooter and friends / Tiffany Chung

Miss Boss / Grace Kong

Education reform / Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.

Imelda / Karen Llagas

Stills from Unidentified Viet Name No. 18 / Lin + Lam

Give me your best performance piece / Leakhena Leng

Stills from Unidentified Viet Name No. 18 / Lin + Lam

Breathing fire performance piece / Leakhena Leng

Through the looking glass / Mail Order Bridges/M.O.B.

Epilogue

About the contributors and editors.