Huê-Tâm Jamme

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I think I’ve described more like a re-appropriation process in a postmodern world where individual identities are mixed with many influences. I wonder if people who go by a completely different name when they are in different countries would agree.

I cannot help but think about JC Scott and his chapter of Seeing like a State about the simplification of names. He claims that this is a modernization process, a way for the state to control citizens and their identity. I’m not sure this applies here.

And today is the day when I am dropping the hyphen too, at least on administrative forms. Because I am tired of being called “Hue???” On the phone, in waiting rooms… Hue is nothing like Tâm Tam Huệ-Tâm or Huê-Tâm. Hue sounds like “you”, like it could be anyone. It’s not me.

After a while, I went back to Hue-Tam. After all, I was born and raised being called this way. I dropped the hats out of consideration for considerate colleagues who would get out of their way to write “Hi Huê-Tâm” in emails. I know there are no hats on QWERTY keyboards!

🇺🇸 Moving to the US, for a while I continued to go by Tam. Tam is easy. Close to Tammy. Sounds kinda familiar. Tam is my Starbucks name.

🇻🇳 For six years in Vietnam, I kind of dropped the lily altogether. Kept the heart. I learned that is how Vietnamese people deal with two-part names. Most names have two parts and people typically go by the second half. My friends there know me as Tâm.

🌸 My original name is Huệ Tâm (no hyphen, the dot is a tone mark). The small dot is not small at all! It has meaning. Huê doesn’t really mean a thing. Huệ means the lily flower. Tâm means heart. Literally, I am the heart of the lily flower 🌸

🇫🇷 Birth certificate: my first name is Huê-Tâm. That is the Francized version of a Vietnamese name that my grandfather picked. He added an hyphen because his French colonizer teachers told him “that is how we deal with two-part names in France.” A small dot was erased too.

From Huệ-Tâm to Huetam. How I lost my hats and other diacritics along the way🧵

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