# Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4

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Podcast: [On Being with Krista Tippett](https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett-279891)
Published: 2025-06-19T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://onbeing.org/programs/ocean-vuong-hope-portal-episode-4/
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## Resource

If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fascinating and singular person. The sweep of his work is about bearing witness to the other side of violence and the possibility of joy while taking nothing away and continuing to bear witness to the fullness of what has been carried and what has been survived. And he is wise about the violence of language that is habitually, culturally instinctive — and how changing that is key to shaping our very presence to others and to this world.

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