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'''Slander''', formerly '''Slant''', is another awesome zine from the 1990s written by Mimi Nguyen. This zine was her perzine and focused on issues of gender, race, privilege, class, and the intersections of these issues within a punk rock context. Whip smart and incisive, Mimi's writing is possibly some of the best to come out of the zine scene.  
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'''Slander''', formerly '''Slant''', is a zine from the 1990's written by [[Mimi Nguyen]].  
  
After leaving the zine world, Mimi earned her PhD and published numerous articles about technology and culture. She was a regular columnist for ''Punk Planet'' and archives of her writing and current information can be found at www.worsethanqueer.com. She co-edited a book published in April 2007 called ''Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America.''
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This  was Mimi's [[perzine]] and focused on issues of gender, race, privilege, class, and the intersections of these issues within a [[Punk|punk rock]] context.
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After leaving the zine world, Mimi earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and published numerous articles about digital technologies, queer subcultures, and war and refugee studies. She also co-edited Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2007). She was a regular columnist for [[Punk Planet]] and writer and shitworker for [[Maximumrocknroll]]. Her long-time website, Worse Than Queer, is no longer around, but archives of her writing and current information can be found at her personal blog, threadandcircuits.wordpress.com and the collaborative research blog, iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com.
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''Slant'' was featured in Volume 3 of [[Zine Yearbook]] from 1998.
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Excerpts from ''Slant'' were featured in the anthology [[The Riot Grrrl Collection]], published in 2013 by The Feminist Press.
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==External Link==
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*[http://threadandcircuits.wordpress.com/ Mimi Nguyen Archives, writing and current info]
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*[http://iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com/ Mimi Nguyen Threadbared, research blog on the politics of fashion and beauty]
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[[Category:1990's publications]]
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Latest revision as of 02:05, 24 June 2013

Slander, formerly Slant, is a zine from the 1990's written by Mimi Nguyen.

This was Mimi's perzine and focused on issues of gender, race, privilege, class, and the intersections of these issues within a punk rock context.

After leaving the zine world, Mimi earned her PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and published numerous articles about digital technologies, queer subcultures, and war and refugee studies. She also co-edited Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2007). She was a regular columnist for Punk Planet and writer and shitworker for Maximumrocknroll. Her long-time website, Worse Than Queer, is no longer around, but archives of her writing and current information can be found at her personal blog, threadandcircuits.wordpress.com and the collaborative research blog, iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com.

Slant was featured in Volume 3 of Zine Yearbook from 1998.

Excerpts from Slant were featured in the anthology The Riot Grrrl Collection, published in 2013 by The Feminist Press.

External Link