Writing
Before Nia started writing for ColorLines, she self-published several zines, many of which are about growing up mixed-race. One of her early personal zines, Angry Black-White Girl, is currently being used as part of the "Coming of Age in America" curriculum at the University of Alabama. Angry Black-White Girl has also been excerpted in Zine Yearbook 9, an anthology of the year's best zines from 2007.
To create the Borderlands zine series (and MXD, it's predecessor), Nia compiled stories from young people all over the US about growing up mixed. Parts of Borderlands were reprinted in University of Arizona Professor Adela C. Licona's dissertation, Zines in Third Space: Borderlands Rhetorics and Radical Cooperation, published in October 2012.
After publishing The First 7-Inch Was Better: How I Became an Ex-Punk, - a zine about the problems with punk activism - Nia was interviewed in Maximum Rock'n'Roll about growing up a queer women of color in Boston's punk rock scene. A revised and updated version of "The First 7-Inch" was published in the special "Punk Anteriors" issue of Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory in December of 2012.
You can purchase copies of Nia's zines here.
To create the Borderlands zine series (and MXD, it's predecessor), Nia compiled stories from young people all over the US about growing up mixed. Parts of Borderlands were reprinted in University of Arizona Professor Adela C. Licona's dissertation, Zines in Third Space: Borderlands Rhetorics and Radical Cooperation, published in October 2012.
After publishing The First 7-Inch Was Better: How I Became an Ex-Punk, - a zine about the problems with punk activism - Nia was interviewed in Maximum Rock'n'Roll about growing up a queer women of color in Boston's punk rock scene. A revised and updated version of "The First 7-Inch" was published in the special "Punk Anteriors" issue of Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory in December of 2012.
You can purchase copies of Nia's zines here.
