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

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.

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

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

POC Zine Project founder Daniela Capistrano is featured in Colorlines speaking about zines by people of color as critical forms of material and expressive culture. (A Race Riot! tour photo caps the essay, including tour members!)

I recently donated over 60 zines by people of color (pre-1997), in collaboration with the POC Zine Project, to the Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Library at New York University. You can read the donation statement at thread & circuits!

POC Zine Project has digitized the second Race Riot compilation zine (2002)! You can now read it online or as a digital download.

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

I'm going on tour with The POC Zine Project: Race Riot from September 24-October 7, at select East Coast and Midwest cities! Read more about the tour here, and my thoughts on the reasons for the tour here.

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.

POC Zine Project has posted a scan of the first Race Riot compilation zine online!

Both first and second issues of the compilation zine ...Race Riot are back in distribution from Stranger Danger Distro (online and at Chicago events in person) and For the Birds Collective (at NYC events in person).

My compilation zines ...Race Riot on race and subcultures are featured (and excerpted) in this comprehensive reader on race and punk, as well as one of my more well-read Punk Planet columns (which can be found here). Out on Verso Books in July 2011.

Threadbared, my collaborative research blog on dress and beauty (with Minh-Ha Pham), is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Threadbared blog ties together world of issues".

Elke Zobl. “Cultural Production, Transnational Networking, and Critical Reflection in Feminist Zines,” in “Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Feminist Zines,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35 (1), 2009: 1-12.

Jenna Freedman. “Grrrl Zines in the Library,” in “Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Feminist Zines,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35 (1), 2009: 52-59.

Alison Piepmeier. Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. New York City: New York University Press, 2009.

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!