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Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia
Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia

This two-day gathering explores the radical yet fraught relationship of love as a creative politically-engaged practice, with the revitalised turn to abolition in the wake of contemporary social and student freedom movements.

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AcademiaLinh NguyenMarch 1, 2026love, abolition, creativity, university, academia
Experiment 1 Palimpsest
Experiment 1 Palimpsest

The October 2022 workshop “Honouring radical pedagogies in the creative writing curriculum” is archived with the Cambridge Posthuman Network in multiple artforms, methodologies, and methods of inquiry.

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AcademiaLinh NguyenFebruary 27, 2026
Learning in love: The Generative Nature of Research in Close Relationships
Learning in love: The Generative Nature of Research in Close Relationships

This chapter uses life story as methodology to hold academic space for love and entanglement as relational pedagogy.

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AcademiaLinh NguyenFebruary 26, 2026
Presencing Echoes in the Archive: Material Voices Through Space and Time
Presencing Echoes in the Archive: Material Voices Through Space and Time

This article presences the material entanglements of analog and digital archives through a workshop-based inquiry titled “Collaging Echoes and Resonances Across Space/Time”.

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AcademiaLinh NguyenJanuary 11, 2026
Planting the bonsai off-centre: making space for epistemological emergence
Planting the bonsai off-centre: making space for epistemological emergence

To decolonize education, we must thoroughly transform our conception of what constitutes knowledge-making and adjust our systems accordingly.

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AcademiaLinh NguyenMay 19, 2025community, learning, university
The night my parents went to check out grave plots
The night my parents went to check out grave plots

“The night that my parents went to check out grave plots, my brother and I had dinner at home. He cooked—he always cooked. I don’t remember what.”

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AcademiaLinh NguyenDecember 1, 2024
Interview with Lina Fadel by Dita N Love, Linh S. Nguyễn & Jolin Tang
Interview with Lina Fadel by Dita N Love, Linh S. Nguyễn & Jolin Tang

“I defend fragments because they define and mirror my own hybrid existence, where fragments of memories and experiences intersect to form a nuanced understanding of self and place.”

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AcademiaLinh NguyenMay 20, 2024interview, fragmentation, writing
Which Realities Get To Exist?
Which Realities Get To Exist?

Storytelling is a technology with which we make sense of the world. What gets framed, buried, left on the margins? How do those definitions, decisions, and incisions get reinforced in the systems that dictate our lives?

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AcademiaLinh NguyenJune 26, 2023
Teaching Activist Thinking in Canadian Education
Teaching Activist Thinking in Canadian Education

The limitations of play-based learning and radical potential of Indigenous land-based learning

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AcademiaLinh NguyenNovember 30, 2022
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How to Survive Heartbreak
How to Survive Heartbreak

I had planned to write a swashbuckling adventure of demigods defeating villains against-all-odds, but I have never defeated a villain. I have only loved and been loved and lost love. The simple version of why I wrote this story is in the attempt to get over a boy.

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The Road Less Travelled: Three artists reimagine success and career
The Road Less Travelled: Three artists reimagine success and career

It’s easy to romanticize quitting your job on a whim and pursuing art. The reality is steeped in challenges of opportunity, financial constraints, and stress-filled planning.

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The Sixth Love Language
The Sixth Love Language

I learned to love in the language of food, but the consequences of that ran deep.

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Follow Your Distractions
Follow Your Distractions

At this stage in life, it can be so easy to narrowly focus on the path we’ve laid out for ourselves and refrain from getting distracted, when those distractions might be the things that make us happiest.

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