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Ocean Vuong Instagram - over 1 million copies sold across the globe in 40 languages. never in my wildest thoughts could I have imagined this. gonna take a long walk with myself and dream the big dream and sit on a bench in this enormously tiny life and say thank you thank you thank you thank you 🥺💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - Self-portrait on 18th birthday with borrowed Nikon, 2006. Strange how I often glimpse a hidden, residual sadness in photographs once they cross the threshold of a decade from being taken. Could it be that distance itself creates a kind of longing, not to live again the years, however painful or joyous, but to do them in another way? Just once? Here I am, hair cut by my mom, no poems written yet, with a camera lent to me by a friend to document his punk band that played in Connecticut basements. Why I was compelled to take this, I don’t know. Was I ever myself or merely a matrix of occurrences in one moment, and then yet another the next? Anyway, I want to hug you, wordless, younger Ocean, and I want it to mean nothing. Nothing at all.
Ocean Vuong Instagram - This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride
Ocean Vuong Instagram - This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride
Ocean Vuong Instagram - i love you, earth
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - dependably depressed at parties, even then. #happypride✨.
Ocean Vuong Instagram - had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)
Ocean Vuong Instagram - had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)
Ocean Vuong Instagram - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Ocean Vuong Instagram - Nan being Nan 💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - Nan being Nan 💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - Nan being Nan 💕
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
Ocean Vuong Instagram - On Earth was voted by The New York Times readers as one of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I’m grateful and honored that folks around the world keep finding and thinking about this weird, fragmented book with its big, messy feelings. “Best” is a dubious and fraught idea when it comes to anything, especially literature, no matter the arbiter. And the “century” is, well, little more than a couple decades old. If nothing else, it’s just a kick to see this little guy swimmin’ with the big fish! 🐟🐠
Ocean Vuong Instagram - “Ben turning 45” Washington Square Park, 2024 Grateful to know this kind, graceful, and fiercely intelligent man through these 15 years (and counting!) of living, losing, art making, crying, and laughing. For a writer whose eyes are always wide open to the inner and outer worlds we wade through, it’s a personal joy to catch him in this sweet, brief moment of reprieve.🌱 #benlerner
Ocean Vuong - 66.2K Likes - over 1 million copies sold across the globe in 40 languages. never in my wildest thoughts could I have imagined this. gonna take a long walk with myself and dream the big dream and sit on a bench in this enormously tiny life and say thank you thank you thank you thank you 🥺💕

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Caption : over 1 million copies sold across the globe in 40 languages. never in my wildest thoughts could I have imagined this. gonna take a long walk with myself and dream the big dream and sit on a bench in this enormously tiny life and say thank you thank you thank you thank you 🥺💕
Likes : 66220Ocean Vuong - 52.2K Likes - Self-portrait on 18th birthday with borrowed Nikon, 2006. Strange how I often glimpse a hidden, residual sadness in photographs once they cross the threshold of a decade from being taken. Could it be that distance itself creates a kind of longing, not to live again the years, however painful or joyous, but to do them in another way? Just once? Here I am, hair cut by my mom, no poems written yet, with a camera lent to me by a friend to document his punk band that played in Connecticut basements. Why I was compelled to take this, I don’t know. Was I ever myself or merely a matrix of occurrences in one moment, and then yet another the next? Anyway, I want to hug you, wordless, younger Ocean, and I want it to mean nothing. Nothing at all.

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Caption : Self-portrait on 18th birthday with borrowed Nikon, 2006. Strange how I often glimpse a hidden, residual sadness in photographs once they cross the threshold of a decade from being taken. Could it be that distance itself creates a kind of longing, not to live again the years, however painful or joyous, but to do them in another way? Just once? Here I am, hair cut by my mom, no poems written yet, with a camera lent to me by a friend to document his punk band that played in Connecticut basements. Why I was compelled to take this, I don’t know. Was I ever myself or merely a matrix of occurrences in one moment, and then yet another the next? Anyway, I want to hug you, wordless, younger Ocean, and I want it to mean nothing. Nothing at all.
Likes : 52224Ocean Vuong - 43.9K Likes - This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride

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Caption : This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride
Likes : 43904Ocean Vuong - 43.9K Likes - This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride

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Caption : This week marks the 5 year anniversary of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous being in the world. I never imagined this book would have the life it does. But a book is nothing without the people who shepherd it into the hands of readers—the most crucial of these being teachers and librarians. It’s therefore with great sadness that I woke to news that On Earth has been completely banned in Conroe,Texas in its recent wave of censorship. A local teacher close to the matter: “I’m not sure if y’all are aware, but Conroe ISD has banned Ocean Vuong’s book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It is not allowed in the libraries or the classrooms. The district banned it using an informal library review committee, so the public was never given notice or a chance to respond.” If you’re familiar with a LGBTQIA center or independent literary or community organization near or in Conroe, please let me know. I want to send them free copies of my books so that people who want them can find them. In a country whose legal precedents include the obscenity trial of Ginsberg’s Howl and many others, it is hard to imagine we are still here. But fascism is a weather that returns with the seasons and at a time where American funded bombs have destroyed every university in G@za, when books left behind by refugees are being burned, when queer and trans rights are being decimated monthly, I am also not surprised that acts of brazen erasure are occurring everywhere. I will do whatever I can to fight this. I have worked too hard, survived too much, to be silenced now. cover photo: @samcontis #happypride
Likes : 43904Ocean Vuong - 36.7K Likes - i love you, earth

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Caption : i love you, earth
Likes : 36741Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

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Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

36.6K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

36.6K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

36.6K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

36.6K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 36.6K Likes - thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨

36.6K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : thank you, Ireland, for showing me some of my roots, for your deep reverence for the written word, and how the word works alongside and within calls for justice, for your open verdant heart, for letting me perform and run around with my good friend @joshokeefeofficial and, crucially, for not giving me a hard time when I got wasted on just the foam of a Guinness! and for one of the warmest receptions a first-time visitor could ever ask for. already plotting my many returns! 🍃💕✨
Likes : 36571Ocean Vuong - 33.6K Likes - dependably depressed at parties, even then. #happypride✨.

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Caption : dependably depressed at parties, even then. #happypride✨.
Likes : 33590Ocean Vuong - 26.8K Likes - had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)

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Caption : had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)
Likes : 26752Ocean Vuong - 26.8K Likes - had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)

26.8K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : had a heart-rending conversation with the dear lightbeam @samsmith on their podcast. we all know Sam for their vocal range and stunning, charismatic poise on stage, but I must say: Sam is also such an astute, intelligently rich, and generously kind conversationalist, making for an interview I’ll take with me for the rest of my days. here we talked about our beginnings, open mics, Queer gardens, griefs, doubts, Etta James, Bryan Adams, fibs, grandmothers and…last but not least…the rimjob as an act of potential grace, mercy, and rescue. I said what I said, friends. 😎 🥹 (Link in bio)
Likes : 26752Ocean Vuong - 25.8K Likes - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱

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Caption : immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Likes : 25815Ocean Vuong - 25.8K Likes - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱

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Caption : immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Likes : 25815Ocean Vuong - 25.8K Likes - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱

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Caption : immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Likes : 25815Ocean Vuong - 25.8K Likes - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱

25.8K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Likes : 25815Ocean Vuong - 25.8K Likes - immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱

25.8K Likes – Ocean Vuong Instagram

Caption : immense harvest of wild blueberries this year. rose at dawn to gather them with dear friends as the fog closed in around us, and with it the sound of rakes breaking the rye, the muffled bumps of berries filling the trough, and underneath that the silence suddenly so dense you feel it in your fingertips, which meant the sadness was filing in too. there should be a word for the kind of sadness you’re somehow grateful for, the one that points at your chest and says “there you are, little fugitive, hiding yourself in the field of bounty on the verge of ignition.” how is it possible, to be full to the brim with gratitude and yet still at a loss for it all? is there a word for sadness so gentle you might wanna keep it, just for a little while? 🫐🌱
Likes : 25815Ocean Vuong - 24.9K Likes - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃

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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Likes : 24889Ocean Vuong - 24.9K Likes - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃

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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Likes : 24889Ocean Vuong - 24.9K Likes - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃

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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Likes : 24889Ocean Vuong - 24.9K Likes - a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃

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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
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Caption : a gentle afternoon at our rural “queer beach” in western Mass✨🍃
Likes : 24889Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.5K Likes - overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕

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Caption : overjoyed to finally share this project—a photo essay 15 years in the making—now featured in the latest issue of @cultured_mag On a sweltering July day in 2009, I came home from college to photograph my mother and her coworkers during their shift at my mother’s nail salon. I intended this session to be the first of many, hoping to document them through the seasons. But three months later, with the recession in full swing, my mother declared bankruptcy and sold her salon. The place that sustained us for over two decades, from which my brother and I were raised, where we worked answering the phones, evaporated overnight. The photos I took that one fateful day would be the only ones I have of that place. 15 years later, perhaps as a cumbersome way of grieving, I spent a week in July photographing my brother, who moved in with me after our mother died. What began as a study of a place, the small but mighty people who live, labor, and lose there, became an exercise in looking at the only thing left of that place: my little brother, Nicky. I suppose some projects change the way some desires change through the years, not by deliberate searching, but by discovering a more-ness, a dynamism, in what remains. In this case, the person bound to us by blood. A deep bow to @cultured_mag for featuring a selection from this ongoing project, along with an original essay on photography, memory, the vexed ethics of seeing, and which bodies the archive holds—and which it erases. (Link in bio) Special thanks to @cigharvey , @anmynx , @tommykha , @maruteppei , @pierce_sapper , @nangoldinstudio , and @romanspataro , for your kind guidance and encouragement in my image work, which culminated in this being in the world.💕
Likes : 24540Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Likes : 24449Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Likes : 24449Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Likes : 24449Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Likes : 24449Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
Likes : 24449Ocean Vuong - 24.4K Likes - UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨

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Caption : UPDATE ON TEXAS BOOK BAN: Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support after the Conroe ISD book ban last month, a ban that actually began in 2023 (as reported by a nonprofit tracking book bans—slide 2). I have been informed by so many community members fighting this fight (some for years now) on the ground and the situation is even grimmer than I imagined. There are concerted, conservative movements across the country to take over local school boards and control the material folks have access to. It is savvy, well organized, funded, and often using loopholes and euphemisms like “circulation” or “logistical” issues to effectively ban books without repercussions or resistance. But the young people on the ground are paying attention and keeping their communities accountable. My incredible publisher @penguinpress has donated copies of my novel to @thewoodlandspride , who will distribute them to anyone in the Conroe area who wants one. Copies will also be available at the nearby LGBTQ youth org, There’s A room at Our Table. I hope the donation of these books to Woodlands Pride’s brand new library (which showcases many other banned books) will be seen for what it is: not just an act of corrective survival—but as a celebration of who we are, what we stand for, and how we choose to heal and hold one another. Special thanks to @cameronjsamuels and @studentsengagedtx for leading this fight long before my book was banned. Ever grateful for your courage. 🌱✨
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Caption : some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
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Caption : some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
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Caption : some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
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Caption : some shots from the local high school graduation 🌱
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Likes : 21734Ocean Vuong - 13.3K Likes - On Earth was voted by The New York Times readers as one of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I’m grateful and honored that folks around the world keep finding and thinking about this weird, fragmented book with its big, messy feelings. “Best” is a dubious and fraught idea when it comes to anything, especially literature, no matter the arbiter. And the “century” is, well, little more than a couple decades old. If nothing else, it’s just a kick to see this little guy swimmin’ with the big fish! 🐟🐠

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Caption : On Earth was voted by The New York Times readers as one of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I’m grateful and honored that folks around the world keep finding and thinking about this weird, fragmented book with its big, messy feelings. “Best” is a dubious and fraught idea when it comes to anything, especially literature, no matter the arbiter. And the “century” is, well, little more than a couple decades old. If nothing else, it’s just a kick to see this little guy swimmin’ with the big fish! 🐟🐠
Likes : 13346Ocean Vuong - 7.1K Likes - “Ben turning 45” Washington Square Park, 2024 Grateful to know this kind, graceful, and fiercely intelligent man through these 15 years (and counting!) of living, losing, art making, crying, and laughing. For a writer whose eyes are always wide open to the inner and outer worlds we wade through, it’s a personal joy to catch him in this sweet, brief moment of reprieve.🌱 #benlerner

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Caption : “Ben turning 45” Washington Square Park, 2024 Grateful to know this kind, graceful, and fiercely intelligent man through these 15 years (and counting!) of living, losing, art making, crying, and laughing. For a writer whose eyes are always wide open to the inner and outer worlds we wade through, it’s a personal joy to catch him in this sweet, brief moment of reprieve.🌱 #benlerner
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