Culture & Society

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...

Faeryville is a dystopian teen movie, a stylish coming of age film about youths making sense of their idealistic dreams in our increasingly surreal...

Growing up as a woman is hard. Growing up as a woman in the Muslim community is harder. In a world still filled with superstitions, if you die duri...

For most people in Singapore, having a job is just a fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses a wide range of experiences. Have you ever real...

What is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being rejected by your family and religious g...

Malay Weddings Don't Cost $50 is a collection of 42 articles which serves as a guide to Malay culture and heritage, lifestyle and personas. The boo...

This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the b...

NANG is an English-language 10-issue magazine which covers cinema and cinema cultures in the Asian world with passion and insight. Issue 3 is dedic...

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of ...

edited by Jason Wee First published in 2006, the groundbreaking collection of coming out stories was the first affirming non-fiction volume accompa...

The Local Rebel #3 (Self) is an intersectional feminist zine focusing on mental health. An accessible and fun educational resource, expect not just...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

Activist and vice president of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), Alex Au explores Singapore’s addiction to cheap labour, and the consequences it ...

What happens when an entire community is moved?  Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourho...

This book — an ethnography of inequality — addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but h...