terry nguyễn
@terrygtnguyen
"writer" in many places & forms / http://nguyenterry.substack.com
Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication
Artwork by @gertsofficial Words by @thursdayband @terrygtnguyen @isle_mcelroy @pasta_ben
The Dakotajohnsonification of celebrities (getting bangs to hide plastic surgery)
I have been silent on here but I am still tweeting in my mind
It’s interesting that, as female beauty/domestic standards are ‘regressing’ towards the natural & traditional (ozempic, tradwife culture, dissolving fillers, getting off BC), men seem to be over-supplementing… (bulking, early viagra use, hair loss pills)
wrote about the link between finasteride (propecia) and male infertility for @nytimes shout out @maxwellstrachan
Thrilled to have new fiction up @Image_Journal alongside some lovely people. Link in reply
I respond very well to a, how do you say, eastern european style of instruction. when they straight up tell me i’m bad at something and it’s with zero malice. I’m just being observed, and a fact is being stated. The accent helps too
Image Issue 125 is ready for you to view online today! You may find it here: buff.ly/wDXOFZU
come to the next weird fucks <3 readings/performances from lisa carver, @JillianLuft, @celardolor, @1virginmartini, @CLAUDIAPOSTING, @alyssaegoldberg, @samc00ke, & elisha henig 🪽🩰⛓️
Bared my soul in the @NYTmag. It’s about looking at art, my mother, and what happens when you practice the difficult task of patience. nytimes.com/2025/07/01/mag…
spending my last month writing the prose pieces i've always wanted to write (why sex parties are not sexy; why vietnamese diasporic poetry is always about distance) before shifting over to poetry.....
“Steyerl fixates on the regressive tendencies of machine-generated images; their monstrous mistakes are simply ‘a reflection of the social constellations’ of visual elements drawn from a data pool of digital-sameness.” Excellent essay by @terrygtnguyen @ArtReview_
"Steyerl’s work reminds us that no one, no matter how much they resist, exists outside the infrastructures of computation, caught in the blur between representation and extraction." artreview.com/hito-steyerls-…
Illustration for @terrygtnguyen essay analyzing Lynch as “a master purveyor of symbols” via Laura Palmer’s necklace in @dirtyverse
Convinced the LRB Ocean Vuong takedown was made in a lab for me to get mad about
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA for reporting on the Columbia student protests. My story here @NewYorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…