Trầm Tích is the sediment that builds up over time — memory layered upon memory, stories that unearth other stories. This book is an act of remembering and reclaiming: an excavation of buried truths shaped by time, migration, resilience, loss, and love.

Trầm Tích began as a response to the systemic erasure of trans and non-binary lives in the U.S., and with time, it became our collective vision for the future — to build a community archive that is decentralized, ever-growing, and indestructible. Trầm Tích calls on us to unearth what was hidden, reimagine what is possible, and plant new roots.

This is not just another book to us. It’s a beginning — an invitation to connect, to remember, to build, and to thrive together. We hope it becomes a space not just for storytelling, but for tangible care and action — a living archive made stronger by the people who hold it down and carry it forward.