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Dear reader, Print issue No. 2. You can buy it now through our web shop. (Supporters and Patrons: details about your complimentary copy are in yesterday’s newsletter.) Orders placed before December 16th will get to you by the end of this year. Get those festive gifts! “Singapore This Week...
Daniel Hui’s fêted feature, refused classification in Singapore, is both admonition and plea. Through a series of legal cases—some known, others forgotten—it asks us to look, to listen, and thus, to care.
The PAP’s biennial conference; yet another “blackface” incident; the solitude-loneliness spectrum; a treaty discussion in New Zealand; ’tis the season for giving; tech-powered building designs; and more.
Dear reader, 630-830pm, Dec 3rd: launch of Jom’s print issue #2. Please register here (free) to join us at the casual poet library for the launch of our second print issue. It’s going to be chill, just a chance for you to mingle with the Jom team at...
The harrowing, and powerful, testimony of a rape and molest victim underscores the need to embed consent as a cultural norm. This is only possible through greater institutional sensitivity, and sex education that’s both comprehensive and nuanced.
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The crisis facing local hawkers; good news about low-income families on aid; improvements in foreign worker dorms; the US returns historical artefacts to Thailand; two Singaporean, Hokkien-language films gaining attention in China; an initiative to help women return to the tech workforce; and more.
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