Today: A protest by Singaporeans against transphobia in the education system.
Kirsten Han
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Kirsten Han
@kixes
🇸🇬 Journalist, writer and activist. Champion of clauses. Author of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope (Ethos Books, 2023)
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- The charges are ridiculous—people just walked to the Istana with letters and umbrellas, for God’s sake!—but this is one badass photo
- Sometimes I don't know if Ronny Chieng was poorly educated by the Singaporean system or too well educated by the Singaporean system. Here he is demonstrating the unholy marriage of Chinese privilege + East Asian American-centric thinkingDon't call Rishi Sunak the UK's first Asian PM in front of @ronnychieng
00:00 - These are a couple of the photos from the pre-execution photoshoot Tangaraju posed for. He hadn’t wanted to do it at first but a loved one had wanted to have more recent photos of him. Rest in Power, Appu.
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- THREAD ⬇️ 1/ Today I've seen/heard more than one American take that #Singapore's spike in #COVID19 cases is due to easing social distancing measures too quickly. I'd like to do a thread about what's really going on in Singapore and what lessons can be learnt from it.
- There's no point shitting on each other on Twitter when basically all our governments sit on the authoritarian spectrum and would not hesitate to oppress, harass, threaten, jail, censor and basically sell ordinary folk down the river for power and profit
- Update: I received a call from the police earlier today telling me to present myself at the police station for questioning this coming week.Today: A protest by Singaporeans against transphobia in the education system.
