I didn’t come out to my family as so much as I was dragged and yanked out of the proverbial closet. When I was younger, I lived my mother and my grandmother. My mother attended a fundamentalist church and she opined by the way I was behaving and dressing when I was twelve that I […]

“As long as you’re not gay, it doesn’t matter if you volunteer to help them.” That was the response I got in April last year when I decided to come out to an older relative about being a volunteer and advocate for gay women’s rights. My first thoughts were, “What’s wrong with being gay? What […]

I have been called an immoral teacher by conservatives who are not even in the teaching profession. I have been told that, if versions of me walked freely in this society, educated our children, society would fall into ruin. What kind of society would we have? But children don’t choose how they are born; they […]

My journey started ten years ago, when I gave life to a blog called “Fabulous Asia”; the idea was to gather information from all over world, package it and present it in a way that my readers would understand. It ran for about seven years and the main concept was to amplify causes to make […]

The school I work in is blue, everything is blue. It’s like a very old house in a crowded area of Singapore. We take lunch in the dining hall, which is probably used to be the living room or a bedroom in that house. It’s a small school and I like my job. I get […]

I’m Stephanie, 22 and I would say that I am more or less a geek. I like poetry but I don’t quite understand it. I like writing but I don’t write well. I love cats so much, my Instagram feed is full of cats… I’m an introvert. I’m out to all my friends and my […]

The first person I came out to was my teacher. I was thirteen, and in Sec One. I read a poem to my teacher, it was “The Twistable Turnable Man” by Shel Silverstein. It was part of an oral assessment, and we had to choose a piece for recitation.  It was a small room, with […]