Mimi Thi Nguyen

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes "the gift of freedom" as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions -- such as a grateful regugee, or enduring war -- in an age of liberal empire.'

(Abstract from Postscript by Mimi Thi Nguyen.)… (meer)

"Written with all of the same intensity and intelligence as her previous zines. Mimi presents POC punk and riot grrrl histories through her own experiences offering legit critiques of histories written by and for white punks and riot grrrls. Also included (which is probably one of the most perfect things ever written about white centered punk histories) is a piece written by Golnar Nikpour critiquing the book "White Riot" published by MaximumRocknRoll. This zine reclaims our important stories and remembers our contributions which have been largely ignored and mis-represented." - http://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com… (meer)