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The Spread
(Selected Works)
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Campus Violence
Oct 27 '21
After being interrogated by the Singapore Police, I got right back to work— this time, for VICE World News. The RA case is definitively covered here. This VICE investigation also includes interview material with another survivor, who was assaulted by a professor in one of the most explosive cases of campus sexual violence in Singaporean collegiate history.
Oct 27 '21
June 30 '21
When the mainstream media sunk its teeth into the RA case, something unexpected happened. The school investigated the survivor for allegedly talking to the press. Meanwhile. a quiet force was helping drive the university's effort at silencing sexual violence survivors— the Office of Campus Security.
June 30 '21
Apr 7 '21
After breaking the news of the expulsion, a previous sexual partner of the RA told me she had suspected he was filming her without consent.
Apr 7 '21
Mar 29 '21
The first article in an unprecedented investigative series about Singapore's top university, National University of Singapore (NUS) mishandling sexual violence cases.
Mar 29 '21
Corporate Malfeasance
Mar 29 '21
Once the alt-nightlife darling of Singapore, Cherry Discotheque came under fire for alleged transphobic hiring practices, underpaying staff and flouting mask mandates.
Mar 29 '21
Jul 7 '20
One of Singapore's largest vintage clothing companies was discovered to be selling apparel featuring KKK imagery. The shirt in question reads: "The OG Boys in The Hood"
Jul 7 '20
Jan 6 '21
When Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister of Home Affairs, promised that TraceTogether, Singapore's COVID contact tracing app was not be used for anything other than keeping track of the virus, he might or might not have knowingly lied in parliament. Here's my recap.
Jan 6 '21
Internet
Jun 4 '21
Coverage of an Instagram account that called out men for alleged sexual assault, harassment and cheating. It had very real implications in a country that has, in recent years, criminalized doxxing.
Jun 4 '21
Mar 3 '20
Kurt Tay's only mistake had been broadcasting his lack of self-awareness in daily videos. I examine the chronic egg-on culture in Singaporean internet culture.
Mar 3 '20
May 25 '20
A retrospective on Flash Games, or as some like to call them, the only good things to come out of the dot-com boom.
May 25 '20
Arts
Nov 15 '20
After taking a year-long hiatus from painting due to acute schizophrenia, celebrated Singaporean creative Charlotte Lim sat down with me to discuss her art and its intersection with gender, sex and herself. Charlotte died a few days after our interview.
Nov 15 '20
Jun 26 '20
None of the magazine's staffers can agree on what happened the night we went to an underground punk rock event. So we Rashomon'd it.
Jun 26 '20
Apr 9 '20
This game was one of my best pals during lockdown. I also reviewed it.
Apr 9 '20
Artist Spotlight
Mar 12 '20
Brainpain5000 reveals their artistic process and drops some sagely meme knowledge in the process.
Mar 12 '20
Oct 24 '20
Ryuichi Nakasone often spends more than an hour on each head of hair. Learn why he started a concept hair salon in the middle of the pandemic.
Oct 24 '20