Which came first: Homophobia or Censorship? by KirstenHan 2023/11/29 0 Activism I’ve just been to see I Love You, Phillip Morris. It’s a delightful, engaging film that did a great job of... Read more
Bigotry peddled at the SPPA Symposium by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil Yesterday Jolene Tan from AWARE Singapore bravely attended the Singapore Planned Parenthood Symposium and live-tweeted it. Here is a Storify of... Read more
When oppressors feel oppressed | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil Singapore’s top court recently ruled that it was constitutional for a minority group to be singled out and criminalised. This... Read more
Anything That’s Fit to Print (And Won’t Get You Sued): Freelance journalism in Singapore | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/10/12 0 Civil The man at the coffeeshop pulled out a Styrofoam box to pack up the leftovers of my beef fried rice.... Read more
In which my writing was plagiarised, plagiarist “hopes I don’t mind” | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil On 22 October I wrote the blog post ‘What transnational couples really need‘. In it, I highlighted the obstacles in... Read more
What transnational couples really need | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil They say that marriage is a major milestone in one’s life. A marker of true adulthood. Whoever ‘they’ are, they’re... Read more
Of internal conflict on National Day | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2021/05/14 0 Civil The flags have been meticulously hung out by the town council; there are no faded, upside-down or mirror-image flags in... Read more
Pulping penguins: the NLB and a space that used to be ours | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil Disbelief. Disappointment. Rage. These emotions have not been in short supply on my Facebook news feed recently. And although a... Read more
On Pink Dot and confrontations | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/10/12 0 Civil A pink dress, with white polkadots, hangs in my cupboard at home. I bought it over a month ago, and... Read more
Five months as a freelancer | #spuddings by KirstenHan 2019/08/16 0 Civil Tell people in Singapore that you’re a journalist and they almost always ask, “SPH ah?” They can’t be blamed for... Read more
