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It's Not Enough to Bear Witness
Two days after the Supreme Court of the United States took this country backwards, with one of the more extreme justices stating that he wished to also examine the constitutional right to same-sex marriage and contraception, I found myself having the same conversation over and over. As a newly arrived foreigner, not…
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Singapore's So-Called Moral Majority
Call it what you will - if there are some among us in Singapore who fashion ourselves the conservative majority, the silent majority, the moral majority - that line, and its consequent political implementation, is bound to fail. It is not enough to view what we are currently witnessing as a 'culture war', as 'us vs…
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Videos Games & Political Consciousness
I wrote this piece some time ago about video games for Memory Insufficient, a games history ezine. This is it. Click this link to download the PDF. I’ve spent the last couple of nights binge-playing through the Mass Effect trilogy, which reminds me a little bit too much of the late nights I’ve pulled work- ing on…
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Culture Kitchen 2: Little Myanmar
If you are anything like me, you've walked by Peninsula Plaza all the time and perhaps even entered it when you've needed to buy cameras and stuff. You've probably also wondered about all the wondrous things there. What is the paste they are mixing, what is this delicious-looking food and how can I have some of it, if…
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Why I'm Hosting Culture Kitchen
This is a project which has been on my mind for some time now. We've been planning it for a while. A part of this is a response to a worrying trend of anti-foreigner sentiment (c.f. the responses to a drive to raise funds for victims of last year's Downtown Line accident: here and here). The other part — which I…
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From the Fringe
I've had more thoughts on the anti-white paper protest since the weekend, I'll need to write it down into a slightly longer piece. But here's what I posted on Facebook that got passed around a fair bit. Point is, Singapore is at an interesting stage in our politics and civil society and it's going to take a while to…
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#downtownlinetragedy Donation Drive to Close Tonight
The donation drive for last week's #downtownlinetragedy victims will close tonight, Friday, 27 July, at 2359hrs. If donations marked “Bugis MRT accident” arrive by cheque after the deadline and includes contact information, TWC2 will email the donor to ask whether he/she would like a refund or if the donation should be…
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This Morning's Downtown Line Tragedy
Closure of donation drive: TWC2 will stop collecting donations for the victims of the #downtownlinetragedy tonight (Friday 27 July 2012, 2359hrs). For more information please read this link Edit: The Paypal link we previously posted isn't working. To donate via Paypal, please to go the donate page on TWC's website, and…
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Five Questions on the MOE's revised SEd programme
Singapore's Ministry of Education recently revealed its new sexuality education programme, now called SEd. (Read more about it on: Today Online, MOE's press release, MOE's SEd minisite) The abstinence-first message was not surprising. The continued insistence on couching the abstinence-first message in…
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