Shut Up White Boy

edited by Nhà Sàn Collective and Suza Husse. Contributions by Leslie Shih Shu Mah,Vu T. Thu Ha, Nguyen Quoc Thanh & Suza Husse

24 pages

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This zine celebrates the 2002 cult film Shut Up White Boy directed by Vũ T. Thu Hà and collectively written, produced and performed by a group of queer Asian American women and dyke artists and punk rock musicians. The film shows a racialized dream-comes-true nightmare of revenge, desire, lust and fun. Together with images from key scenes of the 16mm B&W celluloid film, the zine unfolds around a conversation between musician and artist Leslie Shih Shu Mah, filmmaker Vũ T. Thu Hà and artists and researchers Nguyễn Quốc Thành and Suza Husse on occasion of the chapter Trời quê hương trong xanh như lời hát [The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song] which the Hanoi based Nhà Sàn Collective curated for D’EST. Nhà Sàn’s chapter features Shut Up White Boy as part of a selection of moving image works echoing collective and personal experiences of an era of socialist-oriented market economy, of monetizing and spiritualizing, of globalization and localization through a never-ending stream of songs of desire, nostalgia, sex, death, humor and chaos. The conversation traces the collective making of Shut Up White Boy in the early 2000s as an act of queer diasporic emancipatory world-making and resistance by queer Asian-American communities in the US.

D’EST cycle #2 Zines

As a result from the D’EST cycle #2 Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires, the curatorial teams Fehras Publishing Practices, Nhà Sàn Collective,

Krёlex zentre as well as the D’EST organizers have produces six zines that reflect on post-migrant, queer*feminist, post-socialist and anti–colonial intertwinings between geographies, metaphors and communalities. All zines have been designed by Aziza Ahmad and Suza Husse on the basis of Elsa Westreicher’s design for wild recuperations. material from below and thereby form a visual, textual and haptic documentation, manifestation and testament of this cycle and its surrounding post-socialist and anti-colonial battles and communal desires. Riso-printed by AK Knol, Printeretto Berlin, and Nino Bulling, Flutgraben 2023-25.