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Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh
Suicide And Nepantla: Writing In In-Between Space To Crave Policy Change, Ethan Trinh
Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications
This autohistoria, or “a personal essay that theorizes,” is a special piece to me.[1] It is spiritual, poetic, political, and dialogic. This essay thus delves deeper into the mourning, the fear, the tears, the pain, the loneliness, the strength of a Vietnamese queer immigrant in a state of Nepantla in order to relate with other queers of color in the dark (i.e., in suicidal process). “Living in Nepantla, the overlapping space between different perceptions and belief systems, you are aware of the changeability of racial, gender, sexual, and other categories rendering the conventional labelling obsolete.”[2] In this space, …