Feminists Around the World: Mai Khoi
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In the face of censorship and government surveillance, Vietnamese musician Mai Khoi kept fighting to be heard and to change things in Vietnam.
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back with another feminist around the world. |
| 0:22.3 | And today we're celebrating the works and activism of Vietnamese musician Mai Khoi. |
| 0:28.4 | Mai Khoi has been referenced as the Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot of Vietnam. |
| 0:33.4 | I always say that's weird to me when you're like, this person is this like this former singer. |
| 0:37.8 | Right. |
| 0:38.8 | Huh. |
| 0:39.8 | Especially when they're still alive. |
| 0:41.0 | Like Lady Gaga is still very much very present, but I get it for different country that |
| 0:45.9 | I guess you want to reference. |
| 0:47.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.4 | That's interesting because that's actually a conversation that comes up a lot when you're |
| 0:53.6 | trying to, like I tried to get a book published and some people really hate when you're like, |
| 1:01.1 | it's like this because they're like, no, it's your thing, it's your thing, but other people |
| 1:05.6 | really appreciate that you're giving them the context of, oh, okay, I see it now. |
| 1:11.6 | But it also feels sometimes kind of, I get what they're doing, but it's sort of like, |
| 1:15.6 | no, it's Mai Khoi. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | She's not. |
| 1:18.9 | She's an award winner of her own, we might not know her, but we know that she is massive. |
| 1:23.9 | And of course, her works are huge, which is why we're talking about her. |
| 1:27.4 | And again, the reason for these two different titles are for two completely different reasons. |
| 1:31.8 | Of course, both of them are musicians. |
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