Mimi Thi Nguyen Zine Collection

Mimi Thi Nguyen (1974-) is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Nguyen has made zines since 1991, including Slander (formerly known by other titles) and the compilation zine Race Riot. Race Riot is the first zine by and for punks of color to comprehensively address race and racisms in punk and the Riot Grrrl movement. She is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximum Rocknroll volunteer; she is also a frequent collaborator with Daniela Capistrano for the POC Zine Project. Nguyen has published numerous essays on queer subcultures and punk feminisms, and is presently examining what it is to be an unruly object in the newly institutionalizing archives of Riot Grrrl and punk.

This collection consists of zines by women of color, many of which were solicited from zine writers by Mimi Thi Nguyen in the mid-1990s. For this donation, Nguyen’s research assistant made photocopies from her original copies. In keeping with the Fales Library Riot Grrrl Collection Collection Development Policy, most of the zines that were donated were made before 1997.

To learn more about the contents of the Mimi Thi Nguyen Zine Collection, located at the NYU Fales Library & Special Collections, view the collection’s finding aid.

Image: Photograph of Race Riot #2, 2002; Mimi Thi Nguyen Zine Collection, in Collaboration with the People of Color Zine Project; MSS.365; Box: 2; Folder: 10; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.