Kawika GuillermoinANMLY“A Stories Articulation of Ideas”: On Creativity in the AcademyI began writing travel fiction ten years ago, in 2008, during my first year in graduate school, where I was beginning to specialize in…Oct 19, 20181Oct 19, 20181
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYOn Writing the “Anti-Travel” Novel“The striking originality of this novel starts with the sub-title. What to make of the declaration (warning?) that this is an “anti-travel…Aug 9, 2018Aug 9, 2018
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYWhy I Write Under a Pen NameIn my early twenties my mother told me that she had intended a different name for me. For all my life my given name — “Christopher Benjamin…Jun 11, 20181Jun 11, 20181
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYCan You Live A Video Game? Autobiography & Living The Author In Video GamesIn my previous interviews with the queer game designer Robert Yang and the co-creator of Counter-Strike, Minh Le, a frequent theme came to…Apr 18, 2018Apr 18, 2018
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYAre Foreign Domestic Workers The Muses of Hong Kong?Hong Kong is simultaneously colonized (by mainland China), post-colonized (by the British), neo-colonized (by global capital), and…Mar 2, 2018Mar 2, 2018
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYRobert Yang: “the car in Stick Shift is gay, by the way”I’m ecstatic this month to interview Robert Yang, the Asian American game developer responsible for erotic, intimate queer games like The…Sep 4, 2017Sep 4, 2017
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYBuild a New Route to China If They’ll Have YouIn Gil Scott Heron’s 1970 spoken word poem, “Comment #1,” Heron berates white middle-class student movements for being “four year…Jul 10, 2017Jul 10, 2017
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYNotes On Teaching Creative Writing in Hong KongI teach at a creative writing program in Hong Kong, where we teach our students in English, which is not their mother tongue.[1] This makes…May 26, 2017May 26, 2017
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYRace, Terror and Counter-Strike: Interview with Minh Le (Gooseman), Co-Creator of Counter-StrikeIn 1999, Minh Le (Gooseman) was twenty-one when his pet project, Counter-Strike, was released into the world, spurring the growth of PC…Apr 14, 2017Apr 14, 2017
Kawika GuillermoinANMLYA Gamer Politics for the Anti-Orange, Anti-Blonde DelinquentsIn the last couple blogs I talked about Machphrasis, wherein artists represent the logic and processes of digital media, with art based on…Mar 10, 2017Mar 10, 2017