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In a time of staggering destruction, Laiwan’s work makes me believe in the possibility of “returning to this earth generous and listening,” to a place where all can be as beautifully housed as the pygmy owl nesting inside a prickly cactus. TENDER cleanses the doors of perception – and feeling.

— Jan Clausen, author of If You Like Difficulty and Apples & Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity

In Laiwan’s work there is always precision of language and luminosity of image. And there is care, patience, a generous crafting of each thought she shares with the reader. We are presented with meaning delicately layered. From memory and love, these are true gifts of quietude.

— Mariana Romo-Carmona, author of Sobrevivir y otros complejos: Narrative Poems in Englillano and Speaking like an Immigrant

Where most may grow weary, Laiwan takes the tensions that shape tenderness as a point from which to begin to feel, think, and hold personal histories and colonial legacies at once. To hold, and to let go of when necessary. TENDER questions the points at which habituated rhythms become challenged by unnamed desires. The necessity to actively divert mediocrity and boredom; refusing ease in order to embody a tangle of stories across oceans.

— Bopha Chhay, director and curator of Artspeak