We Want the Airwaves - Mimi Thi Nguyen

By

Nia King

Mimi Thi Nguyen is author of the book The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. She also writes the zine Slander, and edited the influential zine Evolution of a Race Riot about people of color in punk rock. In this episode, Mimi discusses her life as a punk rock professor: how she brings her anti-authoritarianism to the classroom, how the public university system is becoming increasingly privatized and corporatized, and how post-colonial feminist theory informed her angry letter to the editor at Maximum Rock'n'Roll.