She Who Has No Master(s)

She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through a collaborative writing and art process SWHNM brings together the voices of womxn and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. Founded in 2015 by writer/artists Dao Strom and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, SWHNM operates also as a program of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), holding space and fostering community and collaboration for women and nonbinary diasporic writers. SWHNM has presented collaborative poetry at venues such as Black Mountain Institute, American Library in Paris, SF Asian Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, and published poems with BOMB, AJAR Journal, and others. SWHNM has a fluid and evolving membership that to-date has included writers in the US, Canada, France, and Vietnam.