Vănguard

Vănguard mong muốn là nơi mỗi cá nhân nghệ sỹ, nhà văn LGBTQ cảm thấy an toàn, tự do thể hiện sự sáng tạo và có tiếng nói riêng của mình.

Vănguard is a publishing house and creative production company dedicated to promoting LGBTQ+ and femme Vietnamese artists, and bringing Vietnamese art to the world. Mission Statement (Tiếng Việt):
Năm 2014 đánh dấu sự ra đời của Vănguard, tập zine được sáng lập bởi 2 người bạn Aiden và Nu tại Saigon, dành cho cộng đồng LGBTQ. Từ đó tạo nên sự gắn kết cho cộng đồng nghệ sỹ LGBTQ thông qua các hoạt

động văn học nghệ thuật và xã hội. Mission Statement (English):
Vănguard is an underground Zine founded in 2014 by two friends, Aiden and Nu, during their visit to Việt Nam. Our mission is to empower and endorse the visibility and individuality of self identified le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender/trans* & q***r (LGBTQ) Vietnamese artists and writers. We hope to establish a safe platform where LGBTQ individuals can freely express themselves and have their voices heard. Lastly, we aim to foster solidarity and unite the LGBTQ community through art, literature and activism.

27/11/2025

NEXT STOP KL 🇲🇾 2 C U SOON!

Nov 28: 2pm-9pm
Nov 29: 12pm-8pm
Nov 30: 12pm-8pm

KLSCAH (KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall) 1, Jalan Maharajalela, Kampung Attap, 50150 Kuala Lumpur

Get your tickets at https://klartbookfair.com

25/11/2025

Y-Bình Nguyễn (Lawrence)

Y-Bình Nguyễn (they/she) is a proud daughter of American War in Vietnam refugees, descendent from a rural farming community in An Giang, Việt Nam, and situated in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Y-Bình’s poetry and prose focuses on eco-resistance sci-fi, transgenerational trauma & healing, critical compassion, q***r coming of age love stories, diaspora hustles and bustles, ancestral memory, and visionary fiction. They write to recognize the power of making space for past, present, and future ancestors to heal and build new worlds. Y-Binh particularly likes to find the heroes in the esoteric aunties, shy siblings, and liberated q***r cousins—while unearthing stories of resistance and solidarity.

These are pieces of colonial re-imaginings: How do we reshape grief and ancestral trauma into something else? These poems are exploring the ancestral spaces–the scales of justice in the afterlife–that are so inaccessible in our current reality. It seems oftentimes the hopelessness of this world, the depression of looking towards the future is rooted in the inability to change and shape our current realities. As for me, I am currently depending on the spirit of the ancestors to take care of the inhumanity–in that future I can see justice.

"I love the idea of looking to a hopeful future, and hope that some of the poetry I am submitting explores that."

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20/11/2025

EXCITED 2 C U SOON TAIPEI 🇹🇼

Nov 21: 1pm-9pm
Nov 22: 11am-8pm
Nov 23: 11am-6pm

Huashan 1914 Creative Park E2 Building ABCD
No. 1號, Section 1, Bade Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan

Get your tickets at https://taipeiartbookfair.com

14/11/2025

Nhung Đinh (Hà Nội)

Đinh Nhung is a professional amateur who collects every story, object, artwork and slang. Almost all of them are either sent to online LGBT archives, unstraight projects or pasted into lexicons of q***r and sexuality. Since the last 5 years, Nhung has been trying out Bàn Lộn-Vagina Talks and A Q***r Museum ***rmuseum in forms of participatory workshop and exhibition.

"Mình nghĩ những trải nghiệm đa dạng của người q***r ở Việt Nam ít được đề cập và thấu hiểu, chính vì thế chia sẻ những câu chuyện và trải nghiệm rất quan trọng, không chỉ nhằm mục đích giáo dục mà đồng thời còn là một hành động đầy tính giải phóng [khỏi những hình dung duy nhất/câu chuyện duy nhất về trans Việt stories/experiences]"

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12/11/2025

Thank yêu for having us this year and to all the amazing people who visited us at our table. See you again soon 🇸🇬🇻🇳💖

30/10/2025

Hamsa Fae (Los Angeles)

Hamsa Fae (she/they) is a Vietnamese-French poet, performance artist, and model who is native to Los Angeles. She uses memory as medium as a form of both storytelling and resistance. Themes of her artistic process centralizes the tragedies and desires within the Asian American diaspora and her trans identity.

"My artistic process uses poetry as muse for performance art. The poem, "Glucose Spike", refers to the Vietnamese American diaspora through the hyper-consumption of candy to ease dysphoria. This poem dances with the piece, "Yet another (Birth Of) in collaboration with Tarrah Aroonsakal in closing their exhibition, Through the Maze, in San Diego of May 2024. The installation, made up of found objects that reminisce the Asian household, offer audiences through the journey of whitewashing and the new immigrant mentality of anti-blackness. The performance uses honey and condensed milk as symbols of the overpromising American Dream, sugar as an agent to freeze the psyche with heteronormativity. The performance mimics an altar, where divinity is stripped in place of despair demonstrated through ritualistic dance and song. The n**e body in bathtub gestures a fresh start and the (non)consensual sacrifices of one’s indigeneity to assimilate.

"Vietnamese Futurism & Q***r Posterity means to re-narrate my personal mythology through acts of reclamation. My voice is a chamber that echos the otherworldly, where the ungrieved past of previous generations can free itself. Food will always help us remember who we are, but the collective voice reminds me who we are becoming. More than war and trauma, more than scarcity veiled in materialism and neo-patriotism. To be both q***r and Vietnamese in the future is to be surrendered to the mystery of the limitless unknown."

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24/10/2025

(ENGLISH in comment)
Sài Gòn, tháng 10/2025 - một cuộc triển lãm ngắn, không theo quy chuẩn, vừa khép lại. Chúng tôi cùng chia sẻ các tác phẩm của 41 nghệ sĩ người Việt chuyển giới và phi nhị nguyên, đến từ quê hương và hải ngoại.
Tất cả tác phẩm đều góp mặt trong ấn phẩm Trầm Tích: Unearthen Memories, hiện đã được mở bán tại vanguardzine.com/tram-tich (Phiên bản kỹ thuật số được truy cập miễn phí 💫)
Trân trọng cảm ơn .vn đã chia sẻ không gian trưng bày cùng đội ngũ Vănguard.

(unconventional) exhibition showcase credits Project Manager & Producer: Hà Trang  Content & Strategy Supervisor: Vy Vũ .art  Designers: Miles Huỳnh , Toàn Phạm  Special thanks to Aiden (Vănguard), Linh (Vănguard), Quỳnh, Bách và bạn bè tại Reading Cabin.
Cảm ơn bạn bè tại Sài Gòn đã góp mặt và chia sẻ niềm vui 💞
Captured by photographer: Kat

23/10/2025

C U SOON SINGAPORE

We are excited to join 120+ exhibitors in Singapore for the Singapore Art Book Fair. Come visit us at booth E85!

31 October – 2 November
Friday – Sunday
12.00pm – 8:00pm

New Art Museum Singapore | Whitestone Gallery
39 Keppel Road, #05-03/06
Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065

Get your tickets at www.singaporeartbookfair.org

20/10/2025

This week in mutual aid and direct action to support Palestine & Indonesia
vn dành cho các bạn ở Việt Nam và đặc biệt là các bạn ở Sài Gòn. Mọi người hãy qua .vn để mua áo phông in lưới, được thiết kế bởi các hoạ sĩ trẻ đến từ Sài Gòn để chung tay ủng hộ các gia đình đến từ Gaza. 100% quỹ sẽ gửi tới quỹ chung cho các gia đình cần hỗ trợ.
collective dành cho các bạn ở Việt Nam. Còn Nước Còn Tát đang tiếp tục gây quỹ cho gia đình Mohaned đến từ Gaza. Gia đình Mohaned gồm bố, mẹ và 4 em gái đã di tản được tới Deir al-Balah. Họ đang cần hỗ trợ để mua lều tại nơi ở mới. Mục tiêu gây quỹ: 500USD (13,118,000VND)

is a on-the-ground mutual aid project ran by Palestinians from Gaza. They are restarting their Gaza Housing Program to offer housing to as many Palestinian families in Gaza as possible. This time, they are offering support to Palestinians who have returned to Gaza City and Northern Gaza after the ceasefire.

Donate, share and follow these initiatives to stay in touch with grassroots mutual aid efforts in Vietnam and in Palestine.

06/10/2025

cát nguyên (Hồ Chí Minh City)

cát nguyên (they/them pronouns) is a q***r, non-binary storyteller. as an experimental poet, performance artist & wanderer of worlds, cát nguyên searches for solace beyond society’s borders & bones. they are a diasporic dreamer & living manifestation of the u.s. war in việt nam. born & raised in the u.s.a., cát nguyên watched leaves gold & crisp in paris & berlin for several years until they began discovering old roots & planting new ones in việt nam. cát nguyên’s artistry is inspired by this constant movement as well as their lived experiences.

"We live during a generation that is uniquely equipped with the means to reconcile a people fragmented by war, colonization, and imperialism. In telling our q***r, trans, non-binary stories, our shared experiences venture into spaces that go beyond binary ways of thinking, opportunities for healing that soaks deeper into the soul. We must share our stories, and our stories must be heard. Only then will locals and others in the diaspora be able to consider how fluid reality is, and in turn, how fluid our love can be for one another."

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28/09/2025

✨ 𝐻𝒜𝑅𝒱𝐸𝒮𝒯 𝑀𝒪𝒪𝒩 ✨

Come celebrate and dance with us in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.

September 28

EASTMOUNT DJ Sets @ Sunday Service
5:00 - 6:00 PM | .kilean
6:00 - 7:00 PM |
7:00 - 8:00 PM |

📍 NIRVANA Tattoo (19, rue de la Gauchetière E), Montreal

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