They're dependent on where we find ourselves in time and regionally as well. "When it comes to describing sexuality, when it comes to describing gender and queerness, the ways that we talk about these things, the words that we use kind of change all of the time. Nguyen said that he wanted to explore the way language transforms and is significant in both everyday use and broader, big-picture cultural ways. "I do remember going to the library and trying to find language resources to be able to articulate the exact things that I wanted to tell my parents." When I was growing up, we didn't share a language or share a vocabulary to discuss these things," Nguyen said. "This was a struggle that I also had growing up, trying to articulate my sexuality to my parents. In the book he says he doesn't know the word in Vietnamese to even begin a conversation with his parents. Tiến is gay, and he is not able to come out to his family.
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