Director of product management for the City and County of San Francisco. Seeraga samba biryani cult leader
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Sep 19, 2018 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
When it comes down to it, queer equality is about basic things. Ong Ye Kung says LGBTQI+ folks in Singapore are not discriminated against. Says who? If you are a Chinese man in Singapore, you’re unlikely to see discrimination even if it hits you in the face.
It’s true, I’ve never been beaten up for being a queer woman in Singapore. But how low of a bar is that? Even if I have been beaten up for being queer, as so many Singaporean queers of colour, so many trans folks have, what are the laws that will be used to prosecute hate crimes?
Apr 25, 2018 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Asian-Americans and Asians based in Asia are going to see #crazyrichasians differently. Some AA are happy to see representation in Hollywood; others, more versed in social justice see colonialism of East Asians in East Asia.
Asians (in SEAsia think: I don't recognize myself).
As someone who straddles all of these words (being Asian when sometimes in America, interested in social justice, but also fundamentally Asian based in Asia, in country where my ethnic group is dominant). Who grew up among real #CrazyRichAsians in Singapore, my take:
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