JAQ NGUEN VICTOR & TRANG TRAN: Dig & Demand is a Personal Statement. And a Wellness in Action Funded Project.

from WELLNESS IN ACTION by COSMIN GHEORGHE

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DIG AND DEMAND: Queer Diasporic Vietnamese Artist for Social Justice is being led byTrang Tran and Jaq Nguyen Victor.

Trang is a 1.5 generation vietnamese queer and gender nonconforming
individual. They believe in manifesting a path to live their truth
as bright and powerful as the full moon. It is also their stance that mental health is part of an individual’s holistic health and fundamental as a way to to live a meaningful and happy life.

Jaq is doing their Vietnamese-best to create work that is both super silly and super serious. That includes Drugs for Unicorns (short film), Decolonizing is Like Hard (clowning), and Gender Assimilation: A
Rebuttal (self-revelatory theatre), and more! Jaq received a 2015 nomination for "Best Featured Actress" by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle (SFBACC) for their role in The Kid Thing at the New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC). They are also finishing a MA in Counseling Psychology from the Drama Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

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"There is something special that happens when you invite and respect dissidence. I feel that when you respect people's resistance, you respect and honor the way they have learned to cope."

"DIG AND DEMAND begins and ends and it's very much informed by gratitude. Which is a very interesting thing. Because we think gratitude is a feeling that is great. But there is another way to think about gratitude, the way it can be wielded culturally and politically to create subservience and suppression and not questioning things. It gets tricky ..."

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from WELLNESS IN ACTION, released September 2, 2017
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All podcasts produced by Cosmin Gheorghe, Synergis Counseling and @CultresWise in San Francisco, California, USA.

Paintings © Patricia Rojas-Zambrano.
Jaq and Trang Photo © Sean Kirkpatrick

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COSMIN GHEORGHE San Francisco, California

Cosmin Gheorghe, MD is a San Francisco Bay Area consultant, professor, author and licensed psychotherapist. His work focuses on the ways culture, globalization and technology influence human development and social relationships.

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