Below are links to essays, interviews, reportage, and op-eds I’ve written about Pilipin* and Asian communities in the US. Contributor, “Be Considerate When Telling Asian American Stories” by Roja Heydarpour, The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop), December 22, 2022: The 2022 cohort of Open City fellows talks about the challenges and triumphs of a year…
Author: Vina Orden
Self Portraits from “Fil-Am Road” Exhibition
This self-portrait is titled, “Stand in My Place: A Guerrilla Self-Portrait” (24 x 36 in., oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, 2018). It is both a repudiation and a provocation the cheap currencies of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny peddled by the Trump administration from my perspective as a person of color, an immigrant , and a woman,…
Art as Ammunition
Artists are witnesses to living history, but unlike journalists, do not stand at its perimeter. Art is not detached documentation, but rather an engagement, a meditation, a questioning, a response, a provocation, a struggle, a vision. The power of the artist and art is imagining and empowering humanity to create possibilities beyond the prisons of…
Vina Orden 
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