Vivi Nguyen's cakes at Radical Joy Bakery in Chicago are made with flour, vanilla, eggs and joy with the hands of an LGBTQ baker.
"It's a radical act for me to say, I'm going to do what brings me and other people joy," said owner Vivi Nguyen.
Nguyen inspires others as a queer, Vietnamese business owner, and they do it all without formal training. "I don't really see a lot of queer bakers, I definitely don't see enough queer Brown bakers, I definitely don't see any Vietnamese bakers, and so I was like: I can do this," Nguyen said. Since opening their online pastry business two years ago in New Orleans, Nguyen has been making food that reflects the intersections of their own identity. They once combined Vietnamese iced coffee with carrot cake.
"It's very distinctly Vietnamese, very distinctly American, so something like that really is, playful, and it showcases a little bit of my identity," they said."Oh like, this is for my dad, and we're working on our relationship, I came out as gay last year and I want him to understand like, this is a celebration of who I am," said Nguyen."You're instilling your love and care for other people into that act," they said.
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