Leow Yangfa, who we interviewed last year on Out and Successful is giving away 30 free copies of his e book I Will Survive: Personal gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender stories in Singapore.
See below for information on how to get a copy:
IDAHO stands for International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia, and is marked every year on 17 May, to commemorate the World Health Organisation’s decision to
Photo by Tamara Abdul-Hadi.
UnVilifying the Arab Man: A Portrait Series
Via Schema Magazine:
Abdul-Hadi’s project aims to break these stereotypical images that often misrepresent Arab men in the media. She wants to redefine the dominant narrative to shift from hyper-masculine, angry, terrorist to more realistic images. Her formula to achieve this is simple—she’s literally taking images of real Arab men to juxtapose the erroneous characters in popular media that honestly, reflect no one.
Uploaded: The Asian American Movement
This documentary aims to uncover the extent to which Asian Americans have utilized new media such as YouTube to infiltrate American popular culture and where this momentum will lead. The documentary will focus on the current struggles and successes of important Asian Americans in entertainment, from both online celebrities and industry professionals.
Is it just me, or does this trailer foreground the experiences of Asian American men a little too much? I haven’t seen the film, but come on, where are the Asian American women YouTube stars in this?
Image: Tech in Asia.
Willis Wee writes about WhereAreWe.sg, a social networking site helping to connect Singaporeans living abroad. The site is developed for the Singaporean government and one can only imagine that this is meant to reach out to the city-state’s (proportionally) large diaspora.
The site also serves as a hilariously misleading visualization of where Singaporeans are concentrated abroad. Did thousands of Singaporeans decide to escape the tropics for the cool breezes of Greenland? Who is that lonely dot in the Colombian rain forest?
