hauntings, displacement and identity

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Vacation vs Traveling Part 1

My idea of the perfect vacation is booking a nice hotel room (for one week)-on a peaceful island, then lugging with me my gaming equipment, laptop, drawing tablet and headphones. Playing video-games might be the only way to truly distract my brain from thinking about the realities of the world. 

I was due for a vacation but even more so was itching to take a break from America. About three weeks ago a friend and I booked a trip to spend two weeks in Krakow, Poland and one week in Berlin, Germany. People asked, “What's in Poland and why are you going there?” These are fair questions, no one saves money for four to five years to buy a plane ticket to the lowest costing trip to Europe...

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Art Rants, Identity, POC and Indigenous, Traveling and VacationKoua YangTraveling, Vacation, Rants, Othering, POC, Indigenous
Art Rants: Love Hate Relationships with Art

Why pursue art? Why did you decide to walk down this path? The questions that I ask myself once in awhile. I am always reassessing myself and the work that bubbles out of me. I create in various state of minds. Sometimes I make in a trance when my imagination, thoughts and energy are at its highest, to a point where I have to release or live with being overwhelmed by emotions. Other times I slowly chip away at a thought and spend years to add one mark at a time. 

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Art Rants, Identity, Art, Hmong American ExperienceKoua Yangart, rants, Hmong America
An Investigation of what it means to be...

It's been one year since I moved to Minnesota and I am coming into full awareness of being-myself. Although I'm not quite completely out of my comfort zone, I am finding that it is hard to exist without a place to call home. I am within driving distance of one of the most concentrated Hmong communities in the United States, and though I am Hmong I cannot say that I belong here. 

I  moved to the Twin Cities to continue my investigation of what it means to be Hmong in America and since moving I have found the ground to confront who I am, a product of patriarchy.

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POC and Indigenous, Patriarchy, Dance, Hmong American Experience, Performance, Art Rants, Identity, CommunityKoua YangMinnesota Hmong Community, patriarchy, Hmong Dance, magnolia yang-sao-yia, Community, activism, Radical healing, Shh...Silence