APPEARING: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 (VIEW FULL SCHEDULE)

VENUE: 25 O’CLOCK BREWING CO., 208 W Griggs St, Urbana, IL 61801

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first book is The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke University Press, 2012). Her following project is called The Promise of Beauty. She is part of an editorial collective compiling a critical reader on Korean pop band BTS, and she has also published in Signs, Camera Obscura, Women & Performance, positions: asia critique, Radical History Review, The Funambulist, and ArtForum, among others.

Nguyen has made zines since 1991, including Slander and the compilation zine Race Riot. She is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll volunteer. In June 2013, Sarah McCarry‘s Guillotine (“a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction”) released PUNK, a conversation between Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour.