Stories by Mimi Thi Nguyen
Mimi Thi Nguyen is a clotheshorse academic. She situates her work within transnational feminist cultural studies, with an emphasis on neoliberalism and humanitarianism, war and empire. Her first manuscript will be Refugee Passages. She is widely published on punk and queer subcultures.
Posted on Jan 27, 2011, Source: Threadbared
I cut off all my hair and damaged it with all kinds of fucked-up chemicals because I was sick of the orientalist gaze being directed at/on me.
Posted on Jun 4, 2002, Source: PopPolitics.com
The offensive caricatures on Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts are part of a broader marketing trend that repackages decades-old racist images as trendy kitsch.
