Host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran meets visual artist Thinh Nguyen, based in Los Angeles but speaking today from Upstate New York, by the Hudson River, the end destination of their road trip across America. In this episode of Dispatch, listen to Thinh’s many stories, from a childhood in the Vietnamese countryside to American survival and life as an artist. In which, they reveal their use of different personas, between normal life and staged durational performances, as a strategy for queer Asian Americans like them to navigate and communicate with their surroundings.