AIM YOUR DICK #2 - Summer 1993

Berkeley, California, 1993. The second issue of this Riot Grrrl-era "Journal of Anarcha-Feminists Hot to Kick Patriarchal Ass!!!" Race, gender, and politics are in the forefront with articles on rape, veganism, abortion, environmental racism, etc. Notably, there is also a lengthy analysis of misogyny in and the racial implications of gangsta rap, a diatribe on the sexual stereotypes affecting Asian women, and a less than enthusiastic review of a Grateful Dead show. Aim Your Dick was one of Nguyen's earliest zines, preceding Slant, which later changed to Slander. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Mimi Thi Nguyen (b.1974) holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll volunteer who collaborated with the POC Zine Project, scanning and distributing both issues of Race Riot online and organizing donations of zines by people of color to academic archives and libraries. Standard A4 format: 40 p. with black-and-white illustrations. Photomechanically reproduced on 8 1/2" x 11" white stock and bound with two staples. Minor edgewear, with a faint stain to the top left corner of the front panel; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 76956)