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Still in Motion
Jan 17, 2022
Running made me believe in my body again, that it could be—do I dare?—beautiful. Because it kept ...
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Sitting With Grief
Jan 17, 2022
I have often felt violently lonely in my grief. So much that I avoided being alone. I know now th...
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Think Before You Throw
Jan 17, 2022
In this new year, may we continue to honour the things that have made us who we are, as well as m...
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Ethos' 2021 Favourites (Vol. 2)
Jan 17, 2022
We start December by continuing with the Ethos team's 2021 favourites! This round, we find joy in...
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Ethos' 2021 Favourites (Vol. 1)
Jan 17, 2022
Here at Ethos, we're returning to our tradition of rounding up our favourite things of the year. ...
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Rumination: This is how the world keeps going
Jan 17, 2022
Earlier this week, we asked you to share your burning questions. In this week's letter, our edito...
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On Joyful Noise
Jan 17, 2022
The act of ascribing words to music, whether describing sound literally or the emotions that soun...
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The Most Beautiful Things Are Overgrown
Jan 17, 2022
I can’t think of anything more soothing than the real, untouched outdoors. I go for long walks af...
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Empathetic Resonance
Jan 17, 2022
I am Autistic. No, I do not have a super power. I am simply doing my best to survive in a social ...
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Behind each name is a bird
Jan 17, 2022
It’s obvious that birds are not always in plain sight. That is why birdwatching, as a hobby and a...
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We Write to Find Ourselves
Jan 17, 2022
As a young woman, caring for her sick father, even the once terrifying natural world now seems li...
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It matters that we make kin
Jan 17, 2022
There is a lot to learn about entangled living from the weaving of macrame plant holders. Like th...
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To Dwell in Hope
Jan 17, 2022
Words on care, reciprocity, interspecies encounters, living and dying, the semangat of the land a...
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Of Ghosts and Home
Jan 17, 2022
There’s something a bit surreal about settling back into a childhood home after a long time away....
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Orange payphones
Jan 17, 2022
I write to you while mulling over the idea of rootlessness. The things we thought impregnable, un...
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Rainbow Pens and Autograph Books
Jan 17, 2022
I didn’t know what a horoscope was. Flipping through the entries of fellow classmates, I decided ...
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Not Made Unfamiliar
Jan 17, 2022
And so it is with our titles—we set expectations but mostly we speculate. Whom shall the books co...
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Prayers from a Guitar
Jan 17, 2022
The idea for “Prayers From a Guitar” came about from the persistent ways in which music, be it po...
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Happiness Quota
Jan 17, 2022
In "Quota", while the ‘entity’ gives everyone a bit of happiness, is everyone’s happiness the sam...
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A Good Scare
Jan 17, 2022
The Malays have had a long history of making myths, a practice that continues today in the form o...
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Body Paint
Jan 17, 2022
They seem to know the secret, that body art gives you wings. There’s something singular about ski...
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Reading Migrant Literature
Jan 17, 2022
A year ago, I had the opportunity to write a feature article exploring the migrant workers’ welfa...
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Lifelines
Jan 17, 2022
No one has answers to the problems we’re living with these days, and it’s all we can do to be the...
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Gone Saggy
Jan 17, 2022
Years spent hiding, first in my first queer relationships, and even while dating a heterosexual m...
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Reflections Of GE2020 – 1 Year On…
Jan 17, 2022
Yet, every election is a watershed moment. In much the same way, writing about a Singapore GE is ...
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It was more quiet than usual back then
Jan 17, 2022
One year on, in a media space similarly dominated by Covid-19, there is a strange understatedness...
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Being Porous In A World Of Walls
Jan 17, 2022
Connection is a paradox. It is a carriage for feeling, and feeling can feel meaningless when you ...
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Rumination: Between the World and Us
Jan 17, 2022
But fast and cheap books aren’t always a bargain. It just means publishers and authors receive le...
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When One World Closes, Another Opens!
Jan 17, 2022
For anyone who believes, as I do, that books have the power to transport you to anywhere in the w...
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Swinging High and Low
Jan 17, 2022
To encourage others to seek treatment, I have often shared about my bipolar condition, comparing ...
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Crossings
Jan 17, 2022
Life is reverberative—the ‘what is’ is not static. My beliefs and actions can push the boundaries...
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What COVID Can Teach Us About Disability
Jan 17, 2022
COVID has demonstrated that greater understanding and community support is vital for our mental w...
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From Me To You
Jan 17, 2022
But writing to you from Hawai’i, where I am now working on my PhD, I have come a very long way fr...
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Mental health is a human right
Jan 17, 2022
Mental health is only possible if we step up to acknowledge our own mental states, to recognise t...
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Turning Nature Into Culture
Jan 17, 2022
Because cooking is what turns nature into culture, I deeply believe that the way we appreciate an...
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Everything Is Environmental In The Anthropocene
Jan 17, 2022
Eating Chilli Crab has introduced to us the idea of anthropocened thinking - to find bits of the ...
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Dreaming with the Environment
Jan 17, 2022
The orang minyak films suggest oil leads us down a path of extraction and destruction. Neverthele...
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Kin-making
Jan 17, 2022
The fact is that to me, the way you live your life every day, the choices that you make each day,...
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Trying to take pause
Jan 17, 2022
The map of connections sprawls out and the list goes on, and I believe that 5 years from now, my ...
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Hope Is A Garden We Can Tend Together
Jan 17, 2022
Can fictional characters be truly shielded from the harsh realities of the world they inhabit? I’...
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A Light Heart
Jan 17, 2022
The world is a serious place and we have so much work to do. And that is why I cling on to efferv...
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The One With The Footnotes
Jan 17, 2022
I am neither police officer nor civil servant, though in my time as policy campaigner I have hove...
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We Come Like Water And We Go Like Wind
Jan 17, 2022
During my time at Ethos Books, I feel fortunate to witness a public reckoning with social inequal...
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Om Activism
Jan 17, 2022
Maybe it’s possible to turn inward and find peace amongst fear, and in doing so hold space for ot...
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In Solidarity with Myanmar
Jan 17, 2022
Our democracy is not perfect — there have been injustices, untruths, and unfulfilled promises, fo...
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Making 'The Rat Trap'
Jan 17, 2022
I think that is the beauty of writing, amidst the exhaustion living brings to us. There is deep m...
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"I love but I get sad"
Jan 17, 2022
I studied English Literature in University, a fact that always prompts the question “So what’s yo...
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Unlearning History
Jan 17, 2022
In the theatre, my brain questioned and wrestled with entrenched schemas. In the theatre, Raffles...
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Podcast Religion
Jan 17, 2022
I confess, I’ve always hated the idea of podcasts. Isn’t my constant internal monologue enough? I...
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The Dream of a Just and Equal World
Jan 17, 2022
The Bicentennial might have receded into the past, but some of the darker legacies of colonialism...
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