Writing

 

Yang, Emilia. 2024. “Multidirectional Memories and Transnational Solidarities In Exile: AMA Y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity” March: The Journal of Art and Strategy.

Yang, Emilia. 2023. Collectivizing justice: Participatory witnessing, sense memory, and emotional communities. Memory Studies16(3), 621–635. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231162328

Yang, Emilia, Ileana L. Selejan y Camaleoni. 2022. “Fotografía, comunidades y espacios de duelo: demandando justicia, verdad y el derecho a la memoria en Nicaragua”. Istmo, Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 44 (2022): 75-96. Web. http://istmo.denison.edu/n44/dossier/03.html

Yang, Emilia. 2022. “AMA y NO OLVIDA Collectivizing Memory Against Impunity: Transmedia Memory Practices and Activist Participatory Design in Nicaragua.” International Journal of Communications. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16382

Yang, Emilia. 2022. “Mujeres, madres y feministas en Nicaragua: resistiendo a través de la construcción de la memoria y la lucha contra la impunidad.” In Feminismos, memoria y resistencia en América Latina. Tomo 2. Narrar para no olvidar: memoria y movimientos de mujeres y feministas. Edited by Ana Gabriela Rincón Rubio, Velvet Romero García, Araceli Calderón Cisneros. México: Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.

Chamorro, Luciana, and Emilia Yang. 2018. “Social mobilization and control tactics in Neo Sandinismo: the case of #OcupaINSS.” Sandinismo 2.0: Neo-Authoritarianism, Oligarchy, and New Ideological Reconfigurations of the Political in Contemporary Nicaragua, Special Issue, Cahiers des Amériques Latines (87), 91-115. https://doi.org/10.4000/cal.8546

Yang, Emilia and Rogelio López. 2020. “Postcards​ ​from/at​ ​Donde​ ​Rebotan​ ​Los​ ​Sueños* (Where​ ​dreams​ ​hit​ ​the​ ​wall).” In Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook. edited by Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

Yang, Emilia. 2020. “Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black resistance and civic imagination through alternative reality gameplay.” In Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: A Casebook. edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova. New York: NYU Press.

López, Rogelio and Emilia Yang, Pablo Martínez, Gabriel Peters-Lázaro, Sangita Shresthova, Jenkins, Henry. 2018. “Postcards​ ​from/at​ ​Donde​ ​Rebotan​ ​Los​ ​Sueños* (Where​ ​dreams​ ​hit​ ​the​ ​wall) archive.” Regarding Borders issue. Immediacy New School Journal. 

Jenkins, Henry, Thomas J Billard, Samantha Close, Yomna Elsayed, Michelle C. Forelle, Rogelio Lopez, and Emilia Yang. 2017. “Participatory Politics.” In Keywords in Remix Studies, edited by Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough. New York, NY: Routledge.

Yang, Emilia. 2017. “Downtown Browns: Interactive Web Series, Intersectionality and Intimacy.” Henry Jenkins Blog. Confession on an ACA-FAN. 

Bogosian, Biayna and Emilia Yang. 2016. “Maria Clandestinas.” Additivist Cookbook. Amsterdam: The Institute of Network Cultures.

Copus, Jeff and Emilia Yang. 2015. “Creative Community Action to Reclaim City Spaces.” Sites of Protest, Protest, Media and Culture series, MeCCSA Social Movements Network, Rowman & Littlefield.

Selected Press

Ethical Tech, Museums of Memory”, The Current, UC Santa Barbara, 2022.  

La nueva independencia (artística) de Centroamérica”, El País, 2022.

Exposición en Costa Rica rinde homenaje a fallecidos durante protestas en Nicaragua”, France 24, 2021.

¡Abril no se olvida! Libro recuerda a víctimas nicaragüenses”, La Nación, Costa Rica, 2021. 

Nicaragua: How Social Justice and Grief go Hand in Hand”, Humanities and Fine Art News, UCSB, 2020

Museum of Memory dedicated to victims of state violence wins prize in Nicaragua”, The Art Newspaper, 2020. 

Meet these 5 badass Nicaraguan women who are at the forefront of change”, The Tempest, 2020.

Museo sobre víctimas de las protestas contra Ortega gana premio en Nicaragua”, EFE, 2020.

“Protecting the most vulnerable: What it takes to make a case under the US asylum system”, San Diego Union Tribune, 2020. 

El Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad que rinde homenaje a las víctimas del régimen de Daniel Ortega”, Univision, 2019

Nicaragua: “Madres de Abril” abren Museo de la Memoria”, Deutsche Welle, 2019.

Un museo por la memoria y contra la impunidad en Nicaragua”, El País, 2019.

Inauguran el Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad “AMA y No Olvida” en Managua”, CNN, 2019.

Inauguran en Nicaragua museo memoria sobre víctimas de protesta contra Ortega”, EFE, 2019.

Interviews & work reviews

Ruberg, Bonnie. 2020. “Making Games about Queer Women of Color by Queer Women of Color”, Tonia B****** + Emilia Yang, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: LGBTQ Video Game Makers and the Future of Interactive Media. Duke University Press p.153-162.

Arkee, Donna. 2019. w3 wi11 ov3rf10w ur cistem g4t3s: The Hackers of Resistance.” American Quarterly 71.1: 287-294.

Valley, Lauren. 2018. Electric Women, “Time to Escalate”.

Dambrot, Shana Nys. 2017. “Animating the Archives: The Woman’s Building,” Art and Cake.  

Muchnic, Suzanne. 2017. “Wondering Women: ‘Animating the Archives’ Channeled the Energy of Feminist Activity in L.A. from 1975 to 1991”, Artnews

Ohanesian, Liz. 2017. “Young Creatives Are Using Games to Take on Issues Like Racism and the Refugee Crisis”, LAWeekly.

Jones, Kevin. 2017. “#Time2Escalate: Interactive Game Shows How Activism Requires Collaboration,” KQED Arts

Tittor, Anne. 2017. “La Cultura del Sandinismo in Nicaragua – Teorías y Testimonios”, H-Soz- i- Kult.

Weisenstein, Kara. 2016. “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Videos Spotlight Women of Color,” The Creators Project, Vice.

Mask Staff, 2016. “Watch: Downtown Browns,” Mask Magazine, The Proximity Issue.

Downtown Browns,” USC Games. 2016.