What's the Vietnamese word for ‘frustrated’? 

This essay was originally published on Diacritics, a publication by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), as part of the “On Mothering and Language” Series.

I want to hit my one-year-old baby.  

He’s throwing another tantrum. It has become a daily routine at daycare pickup since he aged into a new...Read More »

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Welcome to the FOBLOG!

Update: As of April 2021, I rebranded my site to my name, Angelina Tram Nguyen. This was my very first blog post in 2017, when I named it the FOBLOG.

I came to the United States at eight years old not knowing a word of English. My father had no...Read More »

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