Daphne Guima

︎ dadadaphne1@gmail.com
︎ instagram.com/lasiamesadesiam
Lima, PE ︎︎︎ Toronto, CA

Experiments

- Marketing and Events Coordinator at Flying Books (view selected works here).

- Bilingual little library with the support of Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre and the Little Free Library organization’s Impact Library Program grant.

- Festival Assistant @ WOTS 2023.

Selected writings

PUBLISHED WORK

- “One Day We Will All Die. Who’ll Make Comics Then?” - Article on the Peruvian zine scene (Broken Pencil / 2023 Spring Issue).

- Loneliness as a Crowded Welcoming City: On The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (read original here)

- A Philosophical Reading of Offensive Comedians: On Laughter by Henri Bergson (read original here)

- The Art of Getting Lost: On A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (read original here)

- Always Connected But at What Cost: On Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (read original here)

WRITING PROMPTS (in English)

- Design a personal zine: Randomly Noted: Do You Think We Think When We Don’t Think We Are Thinking?

- Listicle: Away From Homesickness: 5 Things to Pack Before You Depart

- First-person essay: Awkwardly Yours, or “The Universal and Embarrasing Tendency to Avert One’s Gaze When Caught Looking at Someone Else”

Online bookstore @lasiamesadesiam / Lima, Peru (2016 - 2022)

Years ago I founded an online indie bookstore called La siamesa de Siam. I curated, reviewed and sent cool and hard-to-find books to many people from various places all over Peru. I sold more than 400 different titles published by my favourite foreign and local presses, as well as self-published Peruvian authors and artists, I ran a newsletter during 2017, and I launched merch products designed by indie brands and illustrators from Peru and Japan in 2020 and 2021. I put the bookshop on hiatus in February 2022 but I’ve kept using my brand, account and handle to develop new personal book-related projects.

- Instagram (2016 - )
- Merchandising (2020 - 2021)
- Newsletter (2017)

Selected mentions:
Buensalvaje #1
El otro libro