Kawika Guillermo

June 11th, 2025

Video games are often thought of as socially isolating mechanisms that create a wide array of harmful effects on youth. In Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games (Arsenal $26.95) Kawika Guillermo’s personal essays reframe the gamer’s retreat as a quest for a different community, “one where they feel seen, heard, and understood,” says publicity for the book. “Games provide reflective realms to swell, to imagine, and to build spaces for queer, trans, racialized, and neurodiverse groups.” Guillermo has a lifelong attachment to video games. They teach game studies at UBC. 9781834050065

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