https://benedict-nguyen.com Benedict Nguyễn Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:13:37 +0000 https://benedict-nguyen.com en https://benedict-nguyen.com/links Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:44:50 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/links &nbsp;🔗&nbsp;links&nbsp;🔗&nbsp; ❤️‍🔥&nbsp;Hot Girls with Balls 🏐&nbsp; 📖 buy the print or e-book 📖 🎧 buy the audiobook 🎧 🎤 six and green summer tour dates 🎤 🔪 nasty notes - order a PDF now 🔪 freebie waitlist You Better by Sally Silvers @ Roulette - recording Reading Group Guide - And Then He Sang a Lullaby - Grove Atlantic Oct 17 2024: co-produced Communion 2024 at BAAD! - free RSVP Game Plan - The Baffler DON’T short film screenings July 12 @ New York Asian Film Festival July 13 @ Rooftop FIlms Interview with noam keim - BOMB Magazine ‘nesting’ by Fana Fraser (2023) for TBA21 April 14 - Virtual Workshop: Performance Strategies for the Page @ Tin House An Interview with Jasmine Gibson - Nightboat Blog #bbbc Horse Girl, Trans Girl - Factory International Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's The Stroll - BOMB Magazine #165 Interview with Johnnie Cruise Mercer - Dance Magazine August 19: produced "so, maybe I can talk a bit more" with Fana Fraser @ New York Botanical Garden August 19: taught a craft lab @ AAWW’s Page Turner Conference What happens when the show can’t go on like this? Slowing down with MICHIYAYA Dance - Imagining: A Gibney Journal, Issue 13 In ‘Horse Barbie,’ model Geena Rocero reflects on the glamour and scrutiny of trans womanhood - SF Chronicle #bbbc “Dappling Your Own Lighting Design” Workshop @ AAWW (virtual) - Apr 17 + 24 Little Puss Press - “A Literary Scene Where Parties Are Part of the Agenda” - NYTimes Sally Silvers - Dream Logic Mixed with a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ - NYTimes Sally Silvers Puts New Wine in Old Bottles - Village Voice first quarter moon slush - subscribe :) Self-Actualization Realism is the New High Fantasy - INTO #bbbc From Intense Yearning to Just Unraveling - INTO #bbbc Fragments of the Asian Diaspora: On New Novels by Julie Otsuka and Jessica Au - LA Review of Books #bbbc Queer Superiority Complex and/or Well-Earned Snark? - INTO #bbbc Collective Mythmaking: Interviews with zavé martohardjono - BOMB Magazine “To Paradise” Isn’t About Gay Suffering: It’s About Daddy Issues, Disability, and Homonationalism - INTO - #bbbc Just Two Beautiful Asian Bimbos: Interview with Jean Chen Ho - BOMB Magazine - #bbbc Droning Across Postcolonial Borders: An Interview with Alex Quicho - for AAWW's the Margins - #bbbc&nbsp; Winking Away Diasporic Anxiety: On Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties” - for INTO - #bbbc Interview with NIC Kay - for ESPN's the Undefeated The Embarrassing Whiteness of Being in “The Atmospherians” and “Bunny” -&nbsp; INTO&nbsp; #bbbc #freelanceflailing part 2 of 2 : "If me valuing myself sounds like a threat, your power trip has already gone too far" - for National Sawdust "That Feeling of Up" : Kyle Marshall on RISE - for the Shed&nbsp; Part 1 of 2 - "Forecasting the next stage of #freelanceflailing amid so many failed labor relations" - for National Sawdust "bezel bleed" and "nom nom norm" in Flypaper Lit Vanity Fair - "Trans in Trumpland" review "The Last Moon in Mellowland" - New York Times - by Siobhan Burke bốn bạn bán bốn bàn bẩn, ha - a poem @ AAWW's the Margins Human Rights Watch - NYPD Beat and Arrest Peaceful Protesters in Planned Assault Terry Nguyen - How social justice slideshows took over Instagram Rachel Hawley - The Lazy Liberalism of Instagram Slideshows ceev @ BAAD - full video by Nana Chinara: An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy Looping a refrain, following the ripple - Danspace Project On Bobbi Jene Smith's Lost Mountain - Baryshnikov Arts Center On 7NMS' A Prophet’s Tale: Portrait of the Lyricist - Baryshnikov Arts Center Voices in the Archive: An Interview with Monique Truong - AAWW's The Margins very peak summer solstice - writings @ AAWW's the Margins Generative moments in fragmented view: a collage // “very peak summer solstice” at ISSUE Project Room - by Jean Lee for Culturebot moving, unknown / vague ideas around the thing itself - Diacritics The Work Is Never Done' at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archives - The Brooklyn Rail Giving back by giving it up: on gentrification, reparations, dance, etc. (Part 1) - Center for Humanities Giving back by giving it up (Part 2) - Center for Humanities Dancers are Choreographers, Too. It's Time for Dance Criticism to Reflect That - Dance Magazine Mixed Means and Precarious Performance: Dancers on Nick Mauss's Transmissions - The Brooklyn Rail Pay to play: the costs of carving new space for dance - The Brooklyn Rail https://benedict-nguyen.com/hot-girls-with-balls Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:13:37 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/hot-girls-with-balls Hot Girls with Balls a 🏐 novel&nbsp;/ sapphic sporty sicko serious satire / literary brainrot / golden retriever x black cat / enemies &amp; lovers /&nbsp; PREORDER the PAPERBACK - JULY 14, 2026 📖&nbsp;buy the print or e-book&nbsp;📖 🎧 buy the audiobook 🎧 🎤 six and green summer tour dates 🎤 ABA INDIE NEXT PICK - JULY 2025 AARDVARK BOOK CLUB PICK - JULY 2025USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER <img width="11250" height="17000" width_o="11250" height_o="17000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2bb16654a7247fe37b6483a3a86e5b48039106cc3b0fd59d4c26fd68b9ff0d5/HGWBcoverCMYK_small.jpg" data-mid="219833208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2bb16654a7247fe37b6483a3a86e5b48039106cc3b0fd59d4c26fd68b9ff0d5/HGWBcoverCMYK_small.jpg" /> On Sale: 07/01/2025&nbsp; 📖 buy the print or e-book 📖 $28 9781646222476 Hardcover 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 288 pages 🎧 buy the audiobook 🎧 Narrated by Nicky Endres$22 9798217287048 8 hours, 3 minutes In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″, always building her brand, and secretly jealous of her more famous girlfriend. Together, they’re going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. Our hot girls with balls just thought playing with the boys would spare them some controversy . . . haha. In between their rival teams’ away games across the globe, they stay connected on SpaceTime and selflessly broadcast their romance with fans on their weekly Instagraph live show. After a long season, they’ll finally reunite for the championship tournament, the first to accommodate in-person fans since the COVIS pandemic struck the world a year ago. Just as they enter an airtight bro bubble of the world’s best, they’re faced with a public crisis that demands an indisputably humiliating task: make a public statement online. Can Green stock up enough clout for her post-ball future? Can Six girlboss her team’s seniority politics? Can they both take a timeout to just grieve? Their rabid fans and horny haters await their next move. We’re all just desperate for a whiff of the feminine sweaty energy that makes that ball thwack with such spectacular force. REVIEWS&nbsp;🏐 Xtra 🏐&nbsp;Brooklyn Rail 🏐 Literary Review 🏐&nbsp;Lux (major spoilers) 🏐&nbsp;Publishers Weekly (starred)&nbsp;🏐 e-flux 🏐 BookPage&nbsp;🏐&nbsp;BookBrowse&nbsp; BEST BOOK OF 2025 Lit Hub 🏐 Elle&nbsp;🏐&nbsp;Electric Lit&nbsp;🏐 Them&nbsp; 🏐 Chicago Review of Books&nbsp;🏐 Autostraddle MOST ANTICIPATED 🏐 Elle 🏐 Vulture 🏐 T Magazine 🏐 Forbes 🏐 W Mag 🏐 LA Times 🏐 The A.V. Club 🏐 Autostraddle 🏐 Cosmopolitan 🏐 Chicago Review of Books 🏐 Oprah Daily 🏐 Harper’s Bazaar 🏐 Our Cuture Mag 🏐 The Millions 🏐 Literary Hub 🏐 Bay Area Reporter&nbsp;🏐&nbsp;Electric Lit&nbsp;🏐 Betches 🏐 Debutiful 🏐 Ms. Magazine 🏐 Book Riot 🏐 Goodreads MORE BALL BUZZThis Streetball Collective Is Reclaiming Space For Trans Athletes – Service95 Publishers Weekly Spring 2025 Writers to Watch Sunny’s Book Truck - August 2025 Pick Haus of Bad Bitches - August 2025 Pick The Cut’s 100 Small Wins in *****’s first 100 Days Poets and Writers 2025 Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort From Provincetown Book Festival - Out Magazine INTERVIEWS &amp; PODCASTSFoglifter 🏐 BOMB Magazine 🏐 Debutiful 🏐&nbsp;Language Arts Substack&nbsp;🏐 Chicago Review of Books 🏐&nbsp;&nbsp;Referential Substack 🏐 Autostraddle 🏐&nbsp;They Read Book Substack 🏐 Gays Reading&nbsp;🏐 Books and Boba 🏐 Joysauce&nbsp;🏐 Book Riot’s First Edition&nbsp;🏐 Shelf Awareness HOT HOT PRAISE "Cheeky and provocative . . . While the book does tackle the politics of trans women in sports, it’s really a meditation on how our social media feeds seep into our psyches and alter our lives . . . Nguyen throws a lot at the wall with this debut novel—set in a slightly alternate world, it juggles sports, romance and social critique. But one of the accomplishments that makes it stand out is the nuance with which Nguyen sorts through the pitfalls and opportunities of life online . . . In the past few decades, social media has shifted. Instead of people who post, we now have 'creators'; instead of accounts we have 'platforms.' The sense of connection and play that used to suffuse social media has been replaced by a sense of work and duty. With humor and heart, Hot Girls with Balls explores what that change means." —MJ Franklin, The New York Times"Get set for this funny and very sexy off-court romp." —Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times"This book is best for those who love romance with a dash of real life." —Toni Fitgzerald, Forbes"With all the hubbub surrounding trans friends in sports, this satire about two women in a men’s pro indoor volleyball league is just what we need now. Benedict Nguyen serves up a piping hot cup of tea with this perfect balance of political discourse, irony, drama and humor." —Ms."If you thought Challengers made tennis sexy, just wait and see what Hot Girls with Balls can do for volleyball . . . All in all, the novel is the outrageous, hilarious, and biting social commentary that we need in a time where the government continues to invalidate and target the trans community." —Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's Bazaar“A mixed-media satire told with style and verve, Hot Girls with Balls has plenty going for it beyond its incredible title. The narrative will inevitably draw comparisons to Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, but with volleyballs instead of tennis rackets, a much heavier dose of internet culture, and two Asian American trans women as its leading characters . . . Benedict Nguyễn’s sharp, funny-yet-serious debut explores the constant pressure to present identity ‘correctly,’ especially when that identity is under equally constant threat.” —Lauren Puckett-Pope, Elle"A sharp, funny, lively book about the wildly horrifying transphobic, conservative politics of contemporary American society."—Lydi Conklin, Oprah Daily"This brilliant satire is a one-of-a-kind debut." —Tamara Fuentes, Cosmopolitan"Benedict Nguyễn’s 'deeply serious satire' Hot Girls with Balls makes a great beach read." —Jen Lennon, The A.V. Club"It’s hard to find a better opening sentence than the beginning of Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel: 'No one could think straight because everyone was actually gay.' Hot Girls with Balls gets only funnier and more audacious from there." —Isle McElroy, Vulture"Hot Girls with Balls brims with charisma, envy, sabotage and taut, taut muscles . . . Nguyễn’s knack for recreating the chaotic, hate-it-but-can’t-look-away nature of online discourse makes this, her debut novel, a text in perpetual motion. She is an athlete herself—a dancer and self-professed gym buff—and writes as deftly about the stresses, training regimens and team choreography of competitive sports as she does about the micro-details of being trans in the public eye. Hot Girls with Balls is an expertly structured text, its central narrative arc intercut and propelled by scrolls of livestream and forum comments from Six’s and Green’s supporters and enemies . . . Nguyễn has written a polyphonic, tender, biting novel, with two fascinating trans heroines at its centre. Six and Green feel so real that you might find yourself searching for their handles on socials once you’ve finished reading, hoping for just one more glimpse of the trophy-winning, ponytail-wielding volleyball stars." —H Felix Chau Bradley, Xtra"Hot Girls with Balls is such a funny and sharp satire that follows Six and Green, two Asian American trans women and stars of the men’s professional volleyball league. Together, they must navigate love, competitiveness, and a growing base of fans and transphobic critics. Nguyễn’s debut is a fantastic takedown of capitalism, social media, and conservative politics." —Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books"Hilarious in its excavations of internet fame and the content-ification of relationships, Hot Girls with Balls follows Six and Green, two late-twenties Asian trans women on rival teams in the men’s pro indoor volleyball league . . . It’s a great 'internet novel' and specifically a queer internet novel." —Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Autostraddle"The tone is light comedy, but the substance is real enough . . . Class difference is one of the least explored dimensions of trans life. Fortunately, Nguyen doesn’t offer an imaginary resolution to the real contradictions of class. It’s enough to illuminate them." —McKenzie Wark, e-flux"Certain books just exude cool—pick it up and you know you’re in for something original. Enter Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyễn’s debut novel. With the verve, humor, and social commentary of Challengers, Bottoms, and Love Lies Bleeding, the novel tells the story of Six and Green, two Asian American trans women who compete in the men’s pro indoor volleyball league on rival teams while also doing 'Instagraph' lives as an influencer couple." —Michael Colbert, Referential Substack"Clever and nervy . . . Nguyễn’s playful satire tackles everything from sports celebrity to social media, boy’s club dynamics to girlboss politics, romantic jealousy to PR damage control. Also on tap: hot volleyball action." —Goodreads"A terrific and sidesplitting satire. It’s the type of novel that is effortlessly laugh-out-loud funny while also taking a sharp lens to the politics of gender and identity where two transwoman are forced to play in a men’s volleyball league." —Debutiful"Nguyễn dazzles in her riotous debut . . . With agile prose and tongue-in-cheek humor, Nguyễn delivers sharp insights into the pressure trans people face to justify their identities and gender presentations. This bold novel hits as hard as a spike to the face." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The 'internet novel' has been pretty popular for the past 10 years. Many writers have tried to add elements of our 21st-century lifestyles—oversharing through posting, mindless scrolling, going off on endless tangents—into the tried-and-true form of the novel, but few have been able to really capture this new kind of life. Benedict Nguyen’s Hot Girls with Balls is an exciting entry into the lineage, one that succeeds in replicating the feeling of living, loving and majorly losing online . . . The success of Hot Girls with Balls comes from the delicate yet hilarious ways in which Nguyen deals with contemporary issues . . . Six and Green’s lives may be spectacles, but the heart of this novel is a love story that shows the humanity behind the image." —Eric A. Ponce, BookPage"Hot Girls With Balls delivers a satire that defies every expectation of trans fiction. Nguyễn recounts high school volleyball, trans awakenings, and coming-out stories but trauma isn’t central. Or even adjacent. It’s off in the corner, out-of-mind so Six and Green can focus on being hot, world-class athletes. The pair navigates racism and transphobia without losing the confidence that made them known the world over . . . Six and Green aren’t trying to be perfect; they’re trying to win. Few trans protagonists get that freedom, and Nguyễn makes the most of it." — Max Schlenker, The Brooklyn Rail “Benedict Nguyễn's Hot Girls with Balls is so fun, so adrenalized, as grippy as Pilates socks, that it seems a little unfair that it's also smart as hell. It's a novel that's utterly contemporary, vividly specific, funny, and moving. Nguyễn has given us a kinetic, deeply pleasurable satire that I'll be pressing into many hands, this volleyball season and after.” —Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different"Benedict Nguyễn’s Hot Girls With Balls is literal genius: nailbiter sports fiction meets Kathy Acker on EMDR meets our shiny screentime moment, with all the desire &amp; denial &amp; overwhelm &amp; the queer Asian trans girls at the heart of everything that matters. I love this book! It's so observant &amp; emotionally intelligent &amp; moving &amp; shot through with clarity. SO SO GOOD! &amp; I like volleyball now!" —Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl“Following its heroines as they navigate their relationship on and off the volleyball court and online, alongside a relentless comments section full of lovers and haters, I was rooting for Six and Green every step of the way. Sharp and stylish, Hot Girls with Balls is pitch-perfect satire with a generous heart.” —Lisa Ko, author of Memory Piece"Hot Girls with Balls is an antic drama of fame, envy, and vanity, equal parts kinetic and erotic, and intensely self-aware—like if Challengersincluded the online discourse about Challengers. More than anything else, it's about the perilous double-bind of visibility: how you need it to have your existence acknowledged, and how it constrains and deforms that same existence. All the ills of the internet are here: the performed vulnerability, the eternal servitude to the peanut gallery, that paranoid feeling of all humanity constantly looking over your shoulder—including a couple of real freaks. Like any good volleyball player, Benedict Nguyễn can truly serve, and knows just when to go in for the kill." —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection "Hot Girls with Balls is a thrillingly cheeky, tenderly irreverent, seriously funny novel, anchored by a loving duo I couldn’t stop rooting for and featuring a very spicy send-up of the comments section. No one is spared from Benedict Nguyễn’s dishy satire, but with writing this alive, we wouldn't want it any other way." —Chantal V. Johnson, author of Post-Traumatic"I rarely come across a novel with the style, humor, and vitality of Hot Girls with Balls. It's a rigorous and gutting satire, a courageous social fantasy, a realistic portrait of the hell that is humanity, a deeply felt book about love and competition. Benedict Nguyễn is a star. I love the way she sees the world." —Patrick Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace"Hot Girls with Balls is a cheeky and daring presentation of women defining themselves for the love of the game. Nguyễn moves blithely through Six and Green’s ability to balance their own bodily autonomy, the transphobic/fetish gaze, and the love and envy that can exist for these women creating themselves in the gender segregationist world of sports. Dear reader, consider yourself immersed in the world that is Hot Girls with Balls!" —Jasmine Gibson, author of A Beauty Has Come"Nguyễn serves up sharp, hilarious satire about trans celebrity and the limits and costs of trying to change a world from within it. I’ve never read such an unflinching celebration of the weird, violent poetry of online trans discourse, and was here for Six and Green’s journey—via fierce tournament play, lesbian processing, brand deals and soaring follower counts—somehow to rise above it." —Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun and A/S/L Literary Agent: Danielle BukowskiSterling Lord Literisticdanielle [at] sll [dot] comPublicist: Megan FishmannCatapultmegan [dot] fishmann [at] counterpointpress [dot] com https://benedict-nguyen.com/producer Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:24 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/producer I’ve been working as a creative producer in live performance, dance, and film since 2016. I collaborate with artists to develop and stage projects independently and in partnership with presenting institutions. See below some projects I’ve worked on: currently:producing a project with Will Rawls as part of&nbsp;BOFFO Residency on Fire Island (August 2026) plus more TBA :)producing a project with Alethea Pace&nbsp; select previous projectsproduced NYC premiere of&nbsp;Will Rawls’ [siccer] (2025)exhibition on view at The Kitchen (10/16-11/22)performances at Performance Space New York (11/20-11/22)produced&nbsp;Alethea Pace’s Listening with: Harlem Riverfilm, performance, and panel at Pregones (4/26/26) “nesting” (2023) by Fana Fraser - Single-channel video, color, sound3 min, directed by Haruna Azumi - commissioned by TBA21–Academy for st_age-&nbsp;<img width="1390" height="964" width_o="1390" height_o="964" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4edb39eebd0caaca433e494d1c4e07ad50fdb8eabe55981dc3ed0d234fc6282d/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-00.50.28.png" data-mid="239392534" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4edb39eebd0caaca433e494d1c4e07ad50fdb8eabe55981dc3ed0d234fc6282d/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-00.50.28.png" />4 x fifteen: (re)member (2022) - a live improvisation with&nbsp;Malcolm-x Betts, Stephanie George, Nazareth Hassan - for the New York Botanical Garden Jerome (2022) by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd - a dance work for 6 dancers - more info here soft bodies in hard places (2019-2021) - a multidisciplinary performance platform i curated in collaboration with planetary motion, as part of my 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship @ ISSUE Project Room, with collaborations with the Asian American Writers Workshop, Culturebot, Materials for the Arts, Center for Performance Research, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: The Last Moon in Mellowland (2020-21) <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eb55786ce662ffcd456800a6698b80bf689fe1e172181b0603da119e8ffd5a3/DSC00396-med.jpg" data-mid="239392744" border="0" data-scale="60" alt="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: saturated blue sky with waxing crescent moon just visible in the top left; a hand reaching up from the bottom of the frame " data-caption="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: saturated blue sky with waxing crescent moon just visible in the top left; a hand reaching up from the bottom of the frame " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eb55786ce662ffcd456800a6698b80bf689fe1e172181b0603da119e8ffd5a3/DSC00396-med.jpg" /> <img width="1429" height="777" width_o="1429" height_o="777" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/861847df179041be8e4e89e7ddc8534089a9b965113a3987fa5b065d7f42fdb8/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---Left--Breeanah-Breeden--Right-Ariana-Speight.png" data-mid="239392746" border="0" alt="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: Breeanah Breeden (L) and Ariana Speight (R) wearing orange-red pants and crop top long sleeves. &nbsp;They both have one hand on head and other hand on waist, elbows pointing outward." data-caption="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd: Breeanah Breeden (L) and Ariana Speight (R) wearing orange-red pants and crop top long sleeves. &nbsp;They both have one hand on head and other hand on waist, elbows pointing outward." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/861847df179041be8e4e89e7ddc8534089a9b965113a3987fa5b065d7f42fdb8/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---Left--Breeanah-Breeden--Right-Ariana-Speight.png" /> <img width="1428" height="779" width_o="1428" height_o="779" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7780de2aede408e45b1edab554307cbbb6de6f9397b5e1802d64a547fed7c48d/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---Demetries-Morrow.png" data-mid="239392743" border="0" alt="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd:&nbsp;Demetries Morrow (L) holds hands to forehead, looking downward against a pale blue sky" data-caption="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd:&nbsp;Demetries Morrow (L) holds hands to forehead, looking downward against a pale blue sky" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7780de2aede408e45b1edab554307cbbb6de6f9397b5e1802d64a547fed7c48d/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---Demetries-Morrow.png" /> <img width="1429" height="786" width_o="1429" height_o="786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b64b090053f71380c331451aa6d9be3ea49e322b66db607ee20e9089333f8c06/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---B.png" data-mid="239392745" border="0" alt="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd : &nbsp;Light blue sky featuring a flagpole to the right and telephone wires running diagonally" data-caption="Photo by Jordan Demetrius Lloyd : &nbsp;Light blue sky featuring a flagpole to the right and telephone wires running diagonally" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b64b090053f71380c331451aa6d9be3ea49e322b66db607ee20e9089333f8c06/Photo--Jordan-Demetrius-Lloyd---The-Last-Moon-in-Mellowland---B.png" /> a dance film (runtime ~28 minutes) produced over fall 2020for the nov 20, 2020 &nbsp;first quarter moon in Aquariusnov 20, 2020 / world premiere / ISSUE Project Roomfeb 5, 2021 / screening + discussion / Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance one of the New York Times "5 Things to Do this Weekend" &nbsp;(12/24/20) Creditschoreographer, performer, sound, and visual director/designer: Jordan Demetrius Lloydperformances by: Breeanah Breeden, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Demetries Morrow, and Ariana Speighttext by: emily rose cannon, Stephanie George, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, and Wesley Pierredramaturgy: Stephanie Georgethe corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal(2020) <img width="848" height="564" width_o="848" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e967f3b4cfe1f1f1507f5c3db3d7d0eeb94956cfdfee260391a4f401dd307237/ceev-CPR.jpg" data-mid="152074555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/848/i/e967f3b4cfe1f1f1507f5c3db3d7d0eeb94956cfdfee260391a4f401dd307237/ceev-CPR.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1524" width_o="2880" height_o="1524" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30ff0fc016dc8be364ddf0c8c63d9d565274e5174636e44588ea988a2a5ddfe8/Screen-Shot-2021-01-31-at-10.04.15-PM.png" data-mid="239392755" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30ff0fc016dc8be364ddf0c8c63d9d565274e5174636e44588ea988a2a5ddfe8/Screen-Shot-2021-01-31-at-10.04.15-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1576" width_o="2880" height_o="1576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f00893c692080b8f49d7d247ae3025ebd9f8d43ad3a4786051549774bbdc0310/Screen-Shot-2021-01-31-at-9.58.27-PM.png" data-mid="239392756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f00893c692080b8f49d7d247ae3025ebd9f8d43ad3a4786051549774bbdc0310/Screen-Shot-2021-01-31-at-9.58.27-PM.png" /> originally planned for as a weekend-long process residencystructured around a loose game of "exquisite corpse"for the spring 2020 vernal equinox, the project was re-devisedto premiere in celebration of the 2020 summer solstice june 26, 2020 / virtual performance and chat @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!) mar 27-29, 2020 / process residency^ @ Center for Performance Research &nbsp; &nbsp; (^canceled due to COVID-19) Credits "8:46" by Malcolm-x Betts"An Improvisation in Two Parts" by Ogemdi UdeAstrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George loveconductors: ghoul|take III (2019) <img width="850" height="564" width_o="850" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24d84f2176c6e7c77d50d22ce015eb8e65875470b361239ec0e90c987356f0a9/ghoultakeIII_ISSUE-image_1280x850.jpg" data-mid="152074554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/24d84f2176c6e7c77d50d22ce015eb8e65875470b361239ec0e90c987356f0a9/ghoultakeIII_ISSUE-image_1280x850.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de4c2f5b5cb256d05a1d082a836cc995ee813ba572e8f8d79c8a2e56428aa000/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_035.jpg" data-mid="239392751" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de4c2f5b5cb256d05a1d082a836cc995ee813ba572e8f8d79c8a2e56428aa000/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_035.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cef5d2a155835ae967f110677d25e81b5e1e41b2274318f188ab855c800f83e/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_042.jpg" data-mid="239392752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cef5d2a155835ae967f110677d25e81b5e1e41b2274318f188ab855c800f83e/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_042.jpg" /> <img width="4129" height="2758" width_o="4129" height_o="2758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/038b7163b62f7a3bbec45a5325d56138ffab3b2132d5e13a6dc4a7268f9f03ff/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_061.jpg" data-mid="239392759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/038b7163b62f7a3bbec45a5325d56138ffab3b2132d5e13a6dc4a7268f9f03ff/092519_LOVECONDUCTOR_CAKEMC_061.jpg" /> a multimedia fantastic mythologizing performance practice adapted to ISSUE's theaterfor the sept 25, 2019 fall equinox(see full press release) sept 25, 2019 / performance @ ISSUE Project Room commissioned writing: Opening space for the inexplicable&nbsp; (Culturebot) Credits loveconductors, directed by Shantelle Courvoisier JacksonRenée Colbert, Justin Faircloth, Maestro Flux, Ube Halaya, Shiloh Hodges, Samantha Lysaght, Light McAuliffe, Madeline Warriner, and slowdanger(anna thompson and taylor knight) very peak summer solstice (2019) <img width="852" height="564" width_o="852" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b447cb52a91b576b2f3f7db135f72d63173f0d025f9733d1d3724973f024def3/VPSS-Image-Draft3-01-2.png" data-mid="152074552" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/852/i/b447cb52a91b576b2f3f7db135f72d63173f0d025f9733d1d3724973f024def3/VPSS-Image-Draft3-01-2.png" /> <img width="3457" height="2692" width_o="3457" height_o="2692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3eea921bdf0744fa9d85bd50ad0af81f0585ea59aa44c2f005ca56a1ecc3380/CaKeMc_Document-Name_048.jpg" data-mid="239392757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3eea921bdf0744fa9d85bd50ad0af81f0585ea59aa44c2f005ca56a1ecc3380/CaKeMc_Document-Name_048.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e67e6921d6c40e97aed9cf804a2a37f9db9e5b928e2eff3ed149bfb2b1c2a56/CaKeMc_Document-Name_015.jpg" data-mid="239392758" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e67e6921d6c40e97aed9cf804a2a37f9db9e5b928e2eff3ed149bfb2b1c2a56/CaKeMc_Document-Name_015.jpg" /> 2 new collaborations between poets and dancemakersfor the june 21, 2019 summer solstice (see full press release) june 21, 2019 / performances @ ISSUE Project Roomjune 18, 2019 / craft talk and discussion @ Asian American Writers Workshop commissioned writing Generative moments in fragmented view: a collageby Jean Lee (Culturebot) press Tracks Get Fresher by Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Infinite Body) in response to Annie + Sok's December 2019 re-staging of This Mother/land Fabric at New York Live Arts Credits "Fana + Jasmine" by Fana Fraser and Jasmine Gibson "This Mother/land Fabric" by Annie Heath and Sokunthary Svay Astrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George revolutionary new moon in aquarius (2018-19)&nbsp; <img width="852" height="564" width_o="852" height_o="564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ca0cd757072a924b52112252a738ac7a7dcfdeb9980f5346a7a5e9e8fb8fe2f/rnma.jpg" data-mid="152074551" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/852/i/1ca0cd757072a924b52112252a738ac7a7dcfdeb9980f5346a7a5e9e8fb8fe2f/rnma.jpg" /> <img width="5662" height="3775" width_o="5662" height_o="3775" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/850a56343d41475186ae685f0ee3809cdb287397ea5fd5830ef65cd37192eb67/0024.jpg" data-mid="239392760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/850a56343d41475186ae685f0ee3809cdb287397ea5fd5830ef65cd37192eb67/0024.jpg" /> <img width="5392" height="3595" width_o="5392" height_o="3595" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a64fbf2cb099d2304bf1678156d30c9b0d3ffb7c7692ea93de10725ce006a21/0012.jpg" data-mid="239392761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a64fbf2cb099d2304bf1678156d30c9b0d3ffb7c7692ea93de10725ce006a21/0012.jpg" /> 1 new collaboration between 3 dance makers1 commissioned essayfor the feb 4, 2019 new moon in aquarius(see full press release) feb 2, 2019 / performance @ ISSUE Project Room jan 17, 2019 / workshop @ Materials for the Arts commissioned writing Readying Above and Below by Tara Sheena &nbsp;(Culturebot) Credits collaborative performance developed by: Ambika Raina, Katrina Reid, lily bo shapiroAstrological Dramaturg: Stephanie George Image Descriptions The Last Moon in Mellowland (Jordan Demetrius Lloyd): saturated blue sky with waxing crescent moon just visible in the top left; a hand reaching up from the bottom of the frame the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal (Benedict Nguyen): sun earth and moon overlaid on a distorted grid plane with crease lines ghoul|take III (Renée Colbert): large moon over a rocky terrain and doorway (right) with a 2 skeletons standing behind a gate very peak summer solstice (Nick Scavo with Benedict Nguyen): and orangey-peach sky with the sun and moon in hazy background, and a dotted sine wave overlaid revolutionary new moon in aquarius (Nick Scavo with Benedict Nguyen): and orangey-peach sky with the sun and moon in hazy background, and a dotted sine wave overlaid https://benedict-nguyen.com/nasty-notes Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:23 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/nasty-notes 🔪&nbsp;nasty notes (2022)&nbsp;🔪 😮‍💨 physical copies are SOLD OUT 😮‍💨 PDFs FOREVER SIGN UP 4 FREEBIE WAITLIST “One of the best case studies on art-world exploitation and harmful labor relations I've read, maybe ever.” - Shiloh Hodges, arts worker <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e3755adea7820c8532e944f66b910d17856255e4efe0522920fdd2bfeb5c8e2/IMG_5897.jpeg" data-mid="157047335" border="0" alt="my hand over a proof of &quot;nasty notes&quot; page 16: paragraphs of text with selections blocked out. " data-caption="my hand over a proof of &quot;nasty notes&quot; page 16: paragraphs of text with selections blocked out. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e3755adea7820c8532e944f66b910d17856255e4efe0522920fdd2bfeb5c8e2/IMG_5897.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a750220d92ed5d00b4b70a174af45288530511251135833fed17eb773ce575e/nastynotes_multiple.jpeg" data-mid="160329331" border="0" alt="copies of &quot;nasty notes&quot; arranged in a fan: pink-purplish cover with &quot;nasty notes&quot; in black block lettering and &quot;by benedict nguyễn&quot; in bold black ink" data-caption="copies of &quot;nasty notes&quot; arranged in a fan: pink-purplish cover with &quot;nasty notes&quot; in black block lettering and &quot;by benedict nguyễn&quot; in bold black ink" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a750220d92ed5d00b4b70a174af45288530511251135833fed17eb773ce575e/nastynotes_multiple.jpeg" /> nasty notes AVAILABLE NOW physical copy - SOLD OUT PDF copy Publication date: 11/16/2232 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches$11-28, print$5-20, pdf Edition of 250 “I just know that either one of us could blow upa whole project with just one email if we wanted.” -Johnnie Cruise Mercer, arts worker you've all heard rumors about the times ----------&nbsp;sent me&nbsp;--------&nbsp;and i wrote back with a nasty note that said&nbsp;------------------&nbsp;and attached an invoice. and they paid me. from the girl who brought you #freelanceflailing, That Piece on labor conditions at the museum, “Giving Back by Giving it Up,”and years of writing on labor dynamics comes never before seen&nbsp; correspondences, curated from her very extensive archive for benedict’s first zine, nasty notes. 😈 compiling over six years of selected emails sent by benedict in response to harmful institutional actions, nasty notes recounts benedict’s attempts to repair ruptures. as the missives proceed, what’s ultimately unveiled are her evolving tactics for naming and getting paid for the emotional and intellectual labor required to engage with exploitative arts organizations. 😈 this is a zine for arts workers in particular, but it’s also for any worker who thinking about "quiet quitting"&nbsp;in the apocalyptic age of the “great resignation” and @changethemuseum and the DEI industrial complex.&nbsp; rumors of benedict’s emails have been circulating for years. 😈 now, they can be yours! 😈&nbsp; FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE “benedict nguyễn’s nasty notes asks institutions: "Is it that hard?," as in, "...what does accountability look like..." for the relationship between institutions and workers. let's not forget that the release of workplace violations comes from deep capitalism-driven trauma, and nasty notes is spectacular resistance. we know these wounds well—nasty notes says no.” -t. tran le, arts worker FAQs If cost is prohibitive, send us a note for the PDF or sign up for freebie waitlist here. If you’d like to a gift a broke arts worker a free copy, please add a note to your order.&nbsp; If you know benedict, feel free to coordinate for an in-person pick up to save $5 on shipping, By default, physical copies ship within the USA only. But for workers beyond,&nbsp;send us a note and we’ll work something out. Orders process within 5 business days. Thanks for your patience! No refunds on shipped physical copies or emailed PDF copies. We’re a tiny girlboss operation, thanks in advance for your patience with any girlboss hiccups! “Functioning as both an archive of past correspondences and a blueprint for future enactments, nasty notes provides a didactic&nbsp;template on how to dirty talk with institutions, or how to speak&nbsp;truth to power as power. Sanctioned within the lexicon of&nbsp;professionalism, what’s nasty about nasty notes is not its&nbsp;linguistic delivery, but its explicit flirtation with and assertion of economic relations that are only meant to be implied. #freelanceflailing remains ever precarious, threatening to unravel the illusion of order altogether.” - Anh Vo, arts worker XTRA NASTIESxtra reading from the zine, i.e. a self-referential citational practice, etc.&nbsp;;) Forecasting the next stage of #freelanceflailing amid so many failed labor relations - National Sawdust&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Part 1: Interpersonal harm is a predictable horror of the art world&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Part 2: If me valuing myself sounds like a threat, your power trip has already gone too far moving, unknown / vague ideas around the thing itself: an artist statement - Diacritics Giving back by giving it up: on gentrification, reparations, dance, etc.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (Part 1 &amp; Part 2) - Center for Humanities Sara Ahmed - Complaint as Diversity Work Image Descriptions:Image 1: my hand over a proof of &nbsp;"nasty notes" page 16: paragraphs of text with selections blocked out. &nbsp; Image 2: copies of "nasty notes" arranged in a fan: pink-purplish cover with "nasty notes" in black block lettering and "by benedict nguyễn" in bold black ink https://benedict-nguyen.com/writing Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:23 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/writing selected writing on labor and cultural productionGame Plan - The Baffler Forecasting the next stage of #freelanceflailing amid so many failed labor relations - National Sawdust&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Part 1: Interpersonal harm is a predictable horror of the art world&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Part 2: If me valuing myself sounds like a threat, your power trip has already gone too far For Freelance Artists, Workers Compensation Is Usually Out Of Reach - The Establishment Dancers are Choreographers, Too. It's Time for Dance Criticism to Reflect That - Dance Magazine Mixed Means and Precarious Performance: Dancers on Nick Mauss's Transmissions - The Brooklyn Rail Pay to play: the costs of carving new space for dance - The Brooklyn Rail on live performance, film &amp; tvKristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's The Stroll - BOMB Magazine #165Trans in Trumpland Shows the Benefits, and Limits, of Glossy Representation - Vanity Fair On 7NMS' A Prophet’s Tale: Portrait of the Lyricist - Baryshnikov Arts Center On Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheRedProjectNYC 's process memoir 4 - Danspace Project Journal a written response plus an interview with Johnnie! The Work Is Never Done' at MoMA: enacting and obscuring archives - The Brooklyn Rail #bennyboosbookclub There Are No Experts in Fiction – Zócalo Public Square Reading Group Guide - The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) - Grove Atlantic Reading Group Guide - Frighten the Horses - Grove Atlantic Reading Group Guide - And Then He Sang a Lullaby - Grove AtlanticIn ‘Horse Barbie,’ model Geena Rocero reflects on the glamour and scrutiny of trans womanhood - SF Chronicle Fragments of the Asian Diaspora: On New Novels by Julie Otsuka and Jessica Au - Los Angeles Review of Books Queer Superiority Complex or Well-Earned Snark?&nbsp; - INTO “To Paradise” Isn’t About Gay Suffering: It’s About Daddy Issues, Disability, and Homonationalism - INTO &nbsp; &nbsp; Winking Away Diasporic Anxiety: On Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties” &nbsp;- INTO&nbsp;essays on movementOn Language and Muscle Memory – Literary Hub Horse Girl, Trans Girl - Factory International stylish muscling - In Dance (special edition slushee) profiles &amp; interviews Interview with noam keim - BOMB Magazine Interview with Jasmine Gibson - Nightboat Blog Collective Mythmaking: interview with zavé martohardjono - BOMB MagazineJust Two Beautiful Asian Bimbos: Interview with Jean Chen Ho - BOMB Magazine Droning Across Postcolonial Borders: An Interview with Alex Quicho - AAWW's The Margins Inside Kei Concepts, Los Angeles' Vietnamese-Owned Food Empire - Vietcetera Artist NIC Kay seeks balance during the pandemic - ESPN's Andscape Suiting up the Queer Community (with Thúy H. Nguyen) - Shondaland Voices in the Archive: An Interview with Monique Truong - AAWW's The Margins poems "bezel bleed" and "nom nom norm" - Flypaper Lit "bốn bạn bán bốn bàn bẩn, ha" - AAWW's the Margins https://benedict-nguyen.com/live Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:26 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/live 2026 Oct 19: Wine and Pine Reading series @ Ten Degrees Bar - free RSVPSept 30: moderating book launch for Tricyclist by Joon Oluchi Lee @ Afterword Bookshop - free RSVPSept 18: New Books Reading with Kundiman @ NYU - free RSVPSeptember: performed in a film project honoring Agosto Machado with Pioneers Go East at Collar Works ResidencyAugust: produced a project with Will Rawls for BOFFO Residency on Fire IslandJuly 19: Angel Treaty Reading @ Parkside LoungeJuly 14:&nbsp;🏐 Hot Girls with Balls 🏐 available in paperbackJuly 14: 🏐 Hot Girls with Balls 🏐 NYC paperback launch with Yellow Peril at HOM Cafe and Wine - tix hereJune: taught a novel workshop @ Abode Press’ 2026 Virtual Summer RetreatJune 20: 9th Annual Bronx Book Festival&nbsp;June 16: virtual craft talk ‘Novels Beyond Market Logic’ with Abode Press - tixMay 16: Gold Coast Book FairMay 12: Courageous Conversations @ BAAD! - free RSVPMay 2: “Laughing Through It: Dark Humor and the Novel” @ PEN America World Voices Festival - free rsvpApril 27: visiting Joss Lake’s class “Writing Your Queerness” @ Off AssignmentApril 26: producing Alethea Pace’s Listening with: Harlem River @ Pregones - free rsvpApril 25: Out of Your League Book Club with Frankie de la Cretaz (virtual) - subscribe to RSVPApril 7: Perfume reading series @ MetropolitanMarch 10: launch of Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter’s Jaw Filler @ C’mon Everybody - tixFeb 8: launch of Nazareth Hassan’s Slow Mania @ CARA - free RSVPFeb 7-17: taught a novel workshop @ McCormack Writing Center Winter Online Workshop - more infoincluding Feb 7: “How to Rehearse” on zoom - public Lecture Pass here &nbsp;&nbsp;Jan 15: Squawkin’ Sports reading series - @ DSK with Greenlight Books - tix here 2025Dec 9: Don’t F*ck with Bà screening - Womxn in Windows @ NSA - free RSVP Dec 2: virtual talk/lec dem “High Performance” for the San Francisco Public Library’s James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center - free RSVPOct 16-Nov 22: produced Will Rawls’ NYC premiere of [siccer] —exhibition on view at The Kitchen (10/16-11/22), performances at Performance Space New York (11/20-11/22)Nov 15-16: performed in Sugar Vendil’s Antonym: scenes of childhood at JACK (tix)Nov 12: ‘Playing Doubles: The Center Line Between Sports and Literature’ @ Accent Sisters (rsvp/tix)Nov 3: ‘Contemporary Queer Voices’ panel @ McNally Jackson Seaport - tix hereOct 27: Herbal Supplements reading series @ Cherry on Top - info hereSept 30: performed lec-dem “Shock Absorption” for While We’re Here @ C’mon Everybody SIX AND GREEN SUMMER aka Hot Girls with Balls book tour ;) <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0bef56b1afe397693f9526e90b129744d92729a6be9e67e0eec1f7158aa02c4/HGWB_Tour.jpg" data-mid="235848714" border="0" data-icon-mode data-rotation="5" alt="Tour Graphic with Header &quot;Hot Girls with Balls Book Tour,&quot; cover of book in top right, headshot of Benedict in bottom right with border &quot;six and Green Summer&quot; and dates (also below) to the left and Catapult logo in bottom left: July 1 -&nbsp; LAUNCH @ Yu and Me, NYC (w/ Sugar Vendil, Leah Abrams, Hannah Bae, Jasmine Gibson, Jeanne Thornton) July 23 - Loyalty Books at MLK Library, DC&nbsp; (rsvp) (w/ Serena Zets) Aug 1 - Center for Fiction, Brooklyn (tix) (w/ Naomi Xu Elegant, Stephanie Wambugu, Torrey Peters) Aug 7 - Booksmith, San Francisco (rsvp) (w/ Colin Winnette)Aug 11 - Clio's, Oakland (w/ Soleil Ho) Sept 8 - Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn Sept 11 - t4t reading series at Model Caf&eacute;, Boston Sept 13 - Riff Raff, Providence Sept 20 - Provincetown Book Festival Sept 21 - Brooklyn Book Festival" data-caption="Tour Graphic with Header &quot;Hot Girls with Balls Book Tour,&quot; cover of book in top right, headshot of Benedict in bottom right with border &quot;six and Green Summer&quot; and dates (also below) to the left and Catapult logo in bottom left: July 1 -&nbsp; LAUNCH @ Yu and Me, NYC (w/ Sugar Vendil, Leah Abrams, Hannah Bae, Jasmine Gibson, Jeanne Thornton) July 23 - Loyalty Books at MLK Library, DC&nbsp; (rsvp) (w/ Serena Zets) Aug 1 - Center for Fiction, Brooklyn (tix) (w/ Naomi Xu Elegant, Stephanie Wambugu, Torrey Peters) Aug 7 - Booksmith, San Francisco (rsvp) (w/ Colin Winnette)Aug 11 - Clio's, Oakland (w/ Soleil Ho) Sept 8 - Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn Sept 11 - t4t reading series at Model Café, Boston Sept 13 - Riff Raff, Providence Sept 20 - Provincetown Book Festival Sept 21 - Brooklyn Book Festival" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0bef56b1afe397693f9526e90b129744d92729a6be9e67e0eec1f7158aa02c4/HGWB_Tour.jpg" /> July 1 - Yu and Me Books, NYC (w/ Sugar Vendil, Leah Abrams, Hannah Bae, Jasmine Gibson, Jeanne Thornton) July 23 - Loyalty Books at MLK Library, DC&nbsp; (rsvp) (w/ Serena Zets) Aug 1 - Center for Fiction, Brooklyn (tix) (w/ Naomi Xu Elegant, Stephanie Wambugu, Torrey Peters) Aug 7 - Booksmith, San Francisco (rsvp) (w/ Colin Winnette)Aug 11 - Clio's, Oakland (w/ Soleil Ho) (rsvp) Aug 31 - Basketdolls Finals at Thomas Boyland Park (w/ Nonbinarian Book Bike) (more info or donate)Sept 4 - Dean’s Top Surgery Benefit at Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn (rsvp or donate) Sept 8 - Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn Sept 11 - t4t reading series at Model Café, Boston Sept 13 - Riff Raff, Providence (w/ Chrysanthemum) (more info) Sept 20 - Provincetown Book Festival Sept 21 - Brooklyn Book Festival (more info) July 18: performed in ‘Starry Nights’ @ New York Botanical Garden with BAAD! - tixJuly 1: my debut novel 🏐 Hot Girls with Balls 🏐 published with Catapult&nbsp;May 3: Book Launch – One Thing Follows Another by Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte and “Live Choreography” Performance with Sally Silvers @ Performance Space New York - free rsvpApril 16: taught a virtual workshop “How to Rehearse” with at Louis Place - become a member hereApril 2: zoom reading with the Poets &amp; Writers Get The Word Out 2025 Fiction cohort - rsvp for link hereMarch 27: “Don’t F*ck with Ba” screening - PANO Shorts Showcase @ NYU Tisch - tixMarch 25: gave lec dem “Shock Absorption” for Lisa Ko’s Memory Piece paperback launch @ PT Knitwear - tix hereMarch 20-22: performed with Sally Silvers in a new dance work ‘You Better’ at Roulette - tix here 2024 co-produced Communion 2024 at BAAD! - tixappeared in short film “Don’t” (dir. Sally Tran) - screenings at&nbsp;New York Asian Film Festival, Rooftop Films, Toronto International Film Festival, more TKguest on Gender Reveal Live Show @ The Bell House - tixtaught a Virtual Workshop: Performance Strategies for the Page @ Tin House - April 2023 produced "so, maybe I can talk a bit more" with Fana Fraser @ New York Botanical Garden - Aug 19 - info heretaught a craft lab @ AAWW’s Page Turner - Aug 19- tix heretaught “Dappling Your Own Lighting Design” Workshop @ AAWW (virtual) - Apr 17 + 24 -&nbsp;more inforead at Rally Reading Series @ Pete’s Candy Store - Apr 6 -&nbsp;more infoproduction consultant for Jordan Demetrius Lloyd’s “Blackbare in the Basement” @ Danspace Project - Mar 9-11 -&nbsp;more info 2022 read at LittlePuss Press Winter Salon - Dec 16performed with Sally Silvers in Pandora’s New Cake Stain @ Roulette - Dec 1-3 (tix here)modeled for Thúy Custom Clothier at DapperQ Fashion Show NYFW @ Brooklyn Museum (tix here)produced “4 x fifteen: (re)member”&nbsp;at New York Botanical Garden (info here)co-produced Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "JEROME" with The Nerve Studio (RSVP here)final stage project managed iele paloumpis' "In Place of Catastrophe" for Danspace Projectco-produced COMMUNION with Johnnie Cruise Mercer for BAAD!spoke on keynote panel for Dance/NYC symposium (re-watch here)&nbsp;contributed performance video to 48th Annual New Year's Day Marathon @ Poetry Project2021 facilitated a Performance Philosophy Reading Group Discussion @ Center for Performance Researchwith Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TRPNYC co-produced and performed in Communion: Southern Stircontributed text to process memoir 6: thenowlater, journey 3 (SOUL)facilitated craft talk with Proteo Media @ zoominterviewed Anh Vo re; their work Baby Lift @ Leslie Lohman Museum#softbods: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "The Last Moon in Mellowland" screening and discussion @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!&nbsp; (info here)2020#softbods &nbsp;Jordan Demetrius Lloyd's "The Last Moon in Mellowland" @ ISSUE Project Room &nbsp;(info here)Interviewed Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao on their new memoir Family in Six Tones&nbsp;@ AAWW's IG Lunch (full video here)Performed in Brandon Collwes' and John King's "Sonic Gathering XXII" @ zoom (archived on YouTube)#softbods "the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal" solstice edition @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!)#softbods "the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal" process-residency @ &nbsp;Center for Performance Research (canceled due to COVID-19)Saturday Afternoon Conversation #3, @ Danspace Project's 2020 Platform "Utterances from the Chorus" &nbsp;(more info here) 2019 #softbodsAnnie + Sok re-staged This Mother/land Fabric&nbsp;(from vpss)&nbsp;@ New York Live Arts (info&nbsp;here)read new poems at Nodutdol's 20th anniversary celebrationperformed in a new work-in-progress by John Jasperse @ Sundays on Broadway (info here)spoke on panel with The Portal / students Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studiesmodeled for Stuzo Clothing at DapperQ NYFW @ Brooklyn Museum#softbods: loveconductors present "ghoul|take III" @ ISSUE Project Room (info here)modeled for the A/C SPACE at DapperQ x AirBnb World Pridemodeled for CFGNY's show "Surface Trend" (see coverage in Vogue)#softbods: "very peak summer solstice" (#vpss) June 18: craft talk + reading @ Asian American Writers Workshop (info here)performances at ISSUE Project Room (info here)Hecha / 做 Pop Up + Group Exhibition &nbsp;(info here) a lite exhibit: i leave you with scraps of words, plastic, postcards, and stickers and layers but mostly #geminisznperformed with Kristina Bermudez @ NEXT@GrahamAnchor Participant for Dance/NYC Junior Committee's Dancer's Marketplace#softbods "revolutionary new moon in aquarius" (rnma) @ ISSUE Project Room (info here) Mixed Media + Performance Workshop @ Materials for the Arts (info here) https://benedict-nguyen.com/about Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:22 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/about about benedict nguyễn (she/her) is a #freelanceflailing dancer, writer, and creative producer. <img width="4016" height="6016" width_o="4016" height_o="6016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5dca7a27648da4fed1729ec4cf16fc4a31d11c853ab9f09cfe57e69268a351a7/BenedictNguyen_PhotobyCirstyBurton_30-DSC_2624lowres.jpeg" data-mid="235848981" border="0" data-scale="57" data-draggable alt="photo by Cirsty Burton" data-caption="photo by Cirsty Burton" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5dca7a27648da4fed1729ec4cf16fc4a31d11c853ab9f09cfe57e69268a351a7/BenedictNguyen_PhotobyCirstyBurton_30-DSC_2624lowres.jpeg" />photo by Cirsty Burton She’s performed in recent projects with Pioneers Go East, Sally Silvers, and Sugar Vendil, and appeared in the short film “Don’t F*ck with Bà” (2024, dir. Sally Tran). She began developing the dance theater work “DEFENSE” with Sugar Vendil in 2025. As a producer, she's supported projects that have been presented at the The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, New York Botanical Garden, tba21, ISSUE Project Room, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!, among others. Her writing on labor and culture has appeared in The Baffler, BOMB Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Review of Books, and AAWW’s The Margins. A Publishers Weekly 2025 Writer to Watch, Benedict is the author of the [redacted] freelance labor zine nasty notes (2022). Her debut novel Hot Girls with Balls (Catapult 2025) was an ABA Indie Next Pick and USA Today National Bestseller. https://benedict-nguyen.com/contact Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:00:46 +0000 Benedict Nguyễn https://benedict-nguyen.com/contact contactfor&nbsp;Hot Girls with Balls inquiries Literary Agent: Danielle Bukowski Sterling Lord Literistic danielle [at] sll [dot] comPublicist: Megan Fishmann Catapult / Counterpoint / Soft Skullmegan [dot] fishmann [at] counterpointpress [dot] com ### for all other inquiries send a note: click this form OR email: slush@benedict-nguyen.com general mailing list below: