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Of Echoes, Dial Tones and the Metaverse
May 14, 2022
Or maybe, realistically, all that she has to remember me by are the words I leave behind in the s...
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In front of a forest, I am in awe
May 7, 2022
There is much I still do not know about the forest. It is still an inscrutable, magnificent, inti...
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Fish market
May 4, 2022
I never thought of wet-markets as sites of inquiry, but in the history of science, they were an i...
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Thinking of trees
Apr 23, 2022
These days, I make a mental note of the places where trees have been allowed to grow. At the corn...
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The heart is the seat of intention
Apr 16, 2022
There is bountiful energy in this time to pursue beautiful change. No task no habit is too mammot...
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Safe sounds
Apr 8, 2022
What can I say, but—we are alive—and what a wonderous thing that is to behold. Buoyed by immeasur...
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I'm such a sucker for found family
Apr 4, 2022
As I’ve grown older and formed more disillusionments, I’ve increasingly valued pockets in which y...
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Leaving things unfinished
Mar 28, 2022
The me that I want to be–proactive, and intelligent, and fearless, is not the me that I am. I’m s...
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Remembering
Mar 21, 2022
Currently all I can think of when I think about International Women's Day is my grandmother. It i...
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In Your Image
Mar 12, 2022
The fight for liberation for both women and queer rights cannot happen if not for our desire to b...
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The past is never far away
Mar 7, 2022
In this place of so many homogenised spaces, I have found my home: a nest for dreaming, a shelter...
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The sun, always the sun
Feb 28, 2022
It has been a week of grappling with ever worsening news. Amidst the darkening that’s creeping ov...
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Magical, luminous things
Feb 19, 2022
I have flown across an ocean this week. This still sounds surreal to say.
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No negotiation for blood debt
Feb 14, 2022
The Burmese language resistance poetry is deeply embedded in the country’s colonial past. When mo...
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Burning holes in the darkness
Feb 7, 2022
Poets killed in broad daylight, writers tortured and maimed. I wonder if their ghosts watch on fr...
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Tyranny needs no companions
Jan 31, 2022
We are living in a new Age of Authoritarianism, and it is incumbent on all of us to fight its opp...
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Crossing threads and hoping for the best
Jan 24, 2022
It’s hard to let go of people who are still, technically, there. Just in another city, another ti...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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