Little Laos Blog

Little Laos on the Prairie blog: The Lao'd perspective. Hot dish of news + culture + life. Founding EIC: @chanidanoy. #BeLaod

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Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa https://t.co/r4JNE9U7Mw

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An Iu Mien Story Pt.1 – #FreeSaelee, The Secret War, and Resettlement https://t.co/mvFU3mOmPQ

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Beyond Black Ops: Laos in Video Games https://t.co/kvhBkPogwS

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The Lao Wave: A New Music Scene in Laos https://t.co/TeOXx4WooR

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“All’s Fair?” Considering Laos, the environment, and war https://t.co/kdC4m0gPyz

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Legacies of War Refugee Nation Twin Cities: 10 Years Later https://t.co/b2JrgKW67p

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Van Ditthavong debut film All Roads to Pearla https://t.co/xzv5NNiTa0

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We’re excited!

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In partnership with @mnmuseum, we're proud to present 1.5: Southeast Asian Diaspora Remix.

1.5: Southeast Asian Diaspora Remix will be displayed in the M's window and skyway facing spaces, and opens September 24th. Learn more at https://t.co/1e4jZprATm.

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Our physical Pause & Grow Care Packages are almost complete! Now, we just need to put them together 😅 Volunteer for a time slot to assemble our care packages here: https://t.co/16jhEeQnLJ

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Job!!!

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We're seeking a passionate and
creative-thinking Program Manager to lead and
manage our overall programs that are focused in just storytelling, cultural arts and languages, emerging
creative leadership, and dual pandemic response.

Learn more: https://t.co/hNPZ2upva3

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Learn Lao!

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Now's the perfect time to add language learning to your list of new quarantine skills on the weekends! Sign up for our language workshops in Hmong, Khmer, Lao or Vietnamese. Now 100% online. Enrollment opens today. Learn more at: https://t.co/ocuNqixnO8

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I's important that we protect ourselves and each other from COVID-19. Stop the spread by following these practices in our instructional video, now in Burmese, Karen, Khmer, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese. You can find these videos on our YouTube!
https://t.co/ExGCzXCqmO

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Growing up, 1.5 gen children acted as the bridge between their immigrant parents and their new home. Asia Moua did this often as a child, but as life went on, it got more complicated — and so did translating for her parents.

https://t.co/lFHNR1A2CL

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SEAD gathered stories from 1.5 and their descendants on themes of love, labor, and boundaries. Read more about the generation that's in-between, toeing the line of too-American and not American enough, while forging their own, unprecedented path.

https://t.co/06Q1RFqZDO

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Tia Dang's earliest memory of Vietnam is shades of gray: gray skies, from which gray rain fell, on the top of their church made of concrete, where she and her nephew struggled to stay warm.

Read the rest of Tia's story here: https://t.co/306lC4Vz4Q

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2020 marks the 45th anniversary of the diaspora from Southeast Asia and a new world we’re stepping into, during a time of dual pandemics. Consider this a save-the-date in partnership with @mnmuseum: https://t.co/ZDuP46XADL #onepointfive #southeastasian #hmong #khmer #lao #viet

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Tee Fansofa (they/them) is a visual artist and organizer based in Sacramento, CA. More recently, they experienced police brutality while providing for protesters. Read more about their story: https://t.co/2BAtGQN08J

Support them by donating to their Venmo at: thongxy-phansopha

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@BullyCreative As a Northsider it’s so maddening to have to search high and low for news about my neighborhood. And yet one shooting in Uptown and it’s plastered everywhere.
A murdered 17-year-old is newsworthy.

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@DanaSchwartzzz Keep this viral. There was and never will be justice.

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If you needed another reminder, Lao community, that police are not here to keep us safe.

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John Balcerzak was one of the two police officers who were called to investigate the 911 call about a drugged, bleeding 14 year old Laotian immigrant who escaped from Jeffery Dahmer. The policemen made gay jokes and left. The boy was raped, killed, and dismembered that night.