Mimi Thi Nguyen
  • CICADA SEPT/OCT 2015

    I did this "Writer's Manifesto: What's a Zine?" interview for Cicada, a YA literary magazine (the teenager's Cricket).

  • NEXT WORLD TAROT

    Buy a print from the amazing Cristy Road's Next World Tarot, featuring myself as the Page of Wands!

  • AN ARCHIVE OF SUBTLETIES

    One night, hopped up on cough syrup, I made this site for archiving the commentaries around Kara Walker's "Sugar Baby."

  • RADAR READING SERIES VIDEO

    Here's my reading at the San Francisco Public Library for the Radar Reading Series on 4 November 2014.

  • INTERVIEWS

    I did another interview this July 2014 with Archipelago on "Formulating Outrage: The Language of Political Struggle," and answered some questions for RADAR before my reading November 2014.

  • PUNK, SECOND EDITION

    The second printing of PUNK (a conversation between myself and Golnar Nikpour) is available with Guillotine Press. All royalties go to MaximumRocknRoll.

  • CHICAGO ALLIANCE TO FREE MARISSA ALEXANDER

    I read Nikky Finney's "Flare" for the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander.

  • CITY LIGHTS REQUIRED READING

    I forgot that I did a guest recommendation for the City Lights Required Reading blog last fall!

  • CFA CRASHERS

    I'll be crashing the Chicago Film Archives in December 2014 to curate a program of CFA films (no rules or strings attached) for a night at the Hideout! Stay tuned.

  • NEW INTERVIEWS

    I added some new interviews with Bluestockings and We Want the Airwaves, a podcast for and about queer and trans* artists of color.

  • SRLP POSTER COLLABORATION

    I collaborated with artist Sarah Faith on this limited-edition poster for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and its 2014 Small Works for Big Change art auction.

  • ARCHIPELAGO PODCAST

    The Funambulist's Leopold Lambert recaps our conversation about "the epidermalization of the public body" from 4 October 2013 in New York City.

  • ASSEMBLAGES & AFFINITIES

    I am co-organizer fpr this amazing symposium,"Assemblages & Affinities: Reimagining Interdisciplinarity," 23 September 2013, at the University of Illinois.

  • YOUNGIST INTERVIEW

    The Youngist's Suey Park interviews me about being a "punk, feminist, activist, and professor."

  • FEMINIST WIRE "FEMINISTS WE LOVE" INTERVIEW

    Tanisha Ford interviews me for The Feminist Wire's "Feminists We Love" series.

  • LINDA NGUYEN PRINTS

    For a limited time, artist Linda Nguyen is offering prints inspired by two Vietnamese American women writers, myself and lê tho diem thúy (6"x4" 1-color letterpress on 140# cardstock). Prints benefit the Transformative Art Practice Space.

  • PUNK OUT ON GUILLOTINE

    Sarah McCarry's Guillotine ("a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction") releases its fourth issue, a conversation between myself and Golnar Nikpour (Maximumrocknroll and B|ta’arof), in June 2013. Order it here.

  • "DIASPORIC EROTIC" IN CAMERA OBSCURA

    My essay, "Diasporic Erotic: Love, Loss, and the Copy," is published now in Camera Obscura (28:1).

  • INTERVIEW IN BITCH MAGAZINE

    Writer Tina Vasquez interviews me for a feature called, "Revisiting the Riot: An Interview with Punk Veteran Mimi Thi Nguyen," in the Summer 2013 Issue of Bitch Magazine.

  • INTERVIEW IN UNTITLED MAG

    Read an older interview (from September 2012) with me in Untitled Mag here.

  • GIFT OF FREEDOM IN CRITICAL LEDE

    I did an interview/podcast with The Critical Lede about The Gift of Freedom. Available to listen streaming or as a download.

  • WOMEN & PERFORMANCE SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE ON PUNK ANTERIORS!

    PUNK ANTERIORS: GENEALOGY, THEORY, PERFORMANCE, a special issue of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory edited by Beth Stinson and Fiona I.B. Ngo, is out! My essay "Race, Riot Grrrl, and Revival" and my soundtrack "Making Waves: Other Punk Feminisms" are included alongside essays and commentaries by Osa Atoe (Shotgun Seamstress), Nia King (Colorlines, Ungrateful Black/White Girl), Katherine Wadkins (Wisdom Tooth, For the Birds Feminist Collective and Distro), Alice Bag (Violence Girl), Mariam Bastani (Maximumrocknroll), Ceci Moss, Iraya Robles, and so many more!

  • READ THE INTRO TO GIFT OF FREEDOM

    Read the introduction to The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages *Duke UP: 2012) on Scribd.

  • WATCH MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT, NOVEMBER 2011

    The POC ZIne Project, For the Birds Collective, and Barnard Zine Library teamed up for an amazing event in November 2011 featuring zinesters of color (coincidentally, all rad women of color) speaking about the zines we've collectively published from 1990 to the present. Watch the video here.

  • CHANCES DANCES MASK SUMMER 2007

    For the “Summoning a New Queer Reality” Exhibition, Chances Dances in the Summer 2007 named me one of twenty-five “queer revolutionaries” to be made into a mask, included among Gregg Araki, James Baldwin, Claude Cahun, Angela Davis, Divine, Michel Foucault, Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Audre Lorde, Marlon Riggs, Urvashi Vaid, David Wojnarowicz, and others. Available at Chances Dances. Probably the best thing ever!

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