CreativeMornings - Personal history is storytelling

October 28, 2021

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“I would love to live in a community where, for a woman who has the courage to get in a fishing boat to build a better life for her kids, that community can recognize the power in her story and her difference.”

For journalist and photographer Kevin Truong, personal history is storytelling. In a vulnerable CreativeMornings/Portland talk exploring his family and identity, Truong transports us from the refugee camp in Kuala Lumpur where he was born through the trauma and shame he had carried growing up as an Asian American immigrant and a gay man. Decades later, he found healing and release from telling his own stories and filming a feature-length documentary celebrating his mother’s lived experiences called Mai American. Watch Kevin Truong’s moving talk and feel your heart split open.

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CreativeMornings - Personal history is storytelling

“I would love to live in a community where, for a woman who has the courage to get in a fishing boat to build a better life for her kids, that community can recognize the power in her story and her difference.”

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