Mimi Thi Nguyen at Radar Reading Series
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2014-12-06

Mimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of the award-winning The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke, 2012) and co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke, 2007). In her real life, she is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll contributor who also published zines for over 20 years, including Slander and the compilation zine Race Riot. In 2012 and 2013, she participated in the POC Zine Project/Race Riot! Tour to discuss and read from zines by people of color, and continues to organize readings and events around punk and politics.