Broad Shoulders: The Year of Stacy
by: Broad Shoulders This is the third edition of Broad Shoulders, a new collaborative podcast to showcase stories from across Chicago’s Live Lit community. Each month, the show invites performers […]
Tag Archives: Mimi Nguyen
“He Likes You Because You’re Asian”: On the Objectification of a Continent
by: Mimi Nguyen In the past few weeks different articles about Asian fetishism have been circulating around the internet and they keep reminding me of my face. I’m looking in […]
Poetry: A Twist to Blind Pilot’s Three Rounds and a Sound
by: Mimi Nguyen Shhh, It’s Our Song. Listen. They’re playing our song. Let’s lean against this weeping willow. The stars will burst before long and then we can dance real […]
Horse Racing and Other Potentially White People Things
by: Mimi Nguyen Note: This piece was written for the Story Club challenge on July 5, 2012 at Uncommon Ground on Clark in Chicago. It was performed for a live audience […]
A One-Woman Erotic Manifesto: How Sasha Grey Is Saving the Porn Industry
by: Mimi Nguyen “Come here, you have to see this porn.” I looked at my friend as I prepared our dinner from her kitchen stove and said something like, “Porn […]
My Formal Apology to Feminism
by: Mimi Nguyen Lately, I’ve wanted to make a formal apology to feminists living and dead. In my head, the meeting involves a small kitchen table next to a window […]
Fairest of Them All: The Disney Princess-ification of Femininity
by: Mimi Nguyen Once upon a time, I became friends with a princess. Cindy and I met a couple months after I moved into a Chicago. She was very pretty […]
The Problems With Being Called “Cute”: Deconstructing A Diminutive Stereotype
by: Mimi Nguyen “You’re so cute! You’re like a baby seal covered in oil.” My roommate said this to me as I washed a zip lock bag in our sink […]
The Intimacy of a Kiss
by: Mimi Nguyen Throughout each day I stare at the mouths of strangers and wonder how my lips would feel pressed against theirs. A client walked up to my reception desk […]
