#21 "Endless Farewell, Hello Again" March 2022 #20 "Bicentennial 2019 Biennale" September 2021 #19 "Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore" August 2019 #18 "Exploring Disability Studies" November 2018 Special Highlight "Interview with Mr Yeng Pway Ngon" November 2018 #17 "History and Critical Pedagogy" September 2018 #16 "Being Young in the 1950s" January 2018 #15 "bookshops" January 2017 Commentary No. 1 "Some Men and a Red Box; A Woman and Her Handbag" November 2015 #14 "Yang Tersirat" July 2015 #13.2 "Objectum - an exhibition" March 2014 #13.1 "after|thought - an exhibition" August 2013 #12 "Sex Spaces in Singapore: Encounters, Inhabitants, and Identities" May 2013 #11 "The pOp cUltURe Is-U" October 2012 #10 "so what?" September 2011 #9 "the arts II" June 2011 #8 "intellectuals" December 2010 #7 "men in white" August 2010 #6 "the arts I" March 2010 #5 "detention" October 2009 #4 "if" July 2009 #3 "commemoration" June 2009 #2.2 "archives & memory II" February 2008 #2.1 "archives & memory I" January 2008 #1 "inauguration" April 2007
Issue #21
Endless Farewell, Hello Again
March 2022
Editorial
CT Lim
Who Exactly is Chris Ho/X’Ho??
Joseph Tham
‘No Mean Task’: The Subversive Lightness of Chris Ho’s ‘Pop Life’
Yeow Kai Chai
Let’s hear it for these boys
Chris Ho
Review: Chris Ho’s Adventures in YinYao EP
Joseph Tham
Image: Zircon Lounge at the Padang. Image courtesy of Chris Ho.
Issue #20
Bicentennial 2019 Biennale
September 2021
Editorial
Preview of Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History
Eds. Alfian Sa’at, Faris Joraimi, and Sai Siew Min (Ethos Books, 2021)
Updating the Narrative: A Dialogue Between the Former Coloniser and Colonised
Sai Siew Min
Redoing and Undoing the Colonial Pageant: Dialogues with the Raffles Statues
Faris Joraimi
Are You One of Them? – Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme
Joseph Tham
Looking at Song-Ming Ang at the National Museum, Singapore
Cecily Cheo
Image: Song-Ming Ang, Our Songs, 2019, Watercolour on paper (series of 4), 74 x 104cm each. Installation view at the Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2019. Photograph by s/pores.
Issue #19
Growing Up in Post-1965 Singapore
August 2019
A fierce Cantonese woman – growing up in Singapore in the 60s
Chan Wai Han
Going to Where the Silence Is
Fong Hoe Fang
Standing Up and Being Counted: Lessons from my Childhood
Kevin YL Tan
Image: Photograph of Fong Hoe Fang on His Motorbike, courtesy Fong Hoe Fang
Issue #18
Exploring Disability Studies
November 2018
Editorial: Exploring Disability Studies in Singapore: Reflections on Methodology
Kuansong Zhuang, Victor
Looking at ‘d’ art: Fab or fad?
Alvan Yap
Cripping the Church: A Personal Reflection on Disability and Religion
Jacqueline Woo
Universal Design: Beyond the exclusive “Barrier-Free” labels
Fiona Tan
Being d/Deaf in Singapore: A Personal Reflection of Deaf Culture and Identity
Phoebe Tay
My experiences and perspectives on the lack of empathy in psychiatry
Nurul Fadiah Johari
Image: Still taken from the video, Some Sit on Earth, which tells of Disabled Peoples’ International Founding in 1981.
s/pores Special Highlight
November 2018
Interview with Mr Yeng Pway Ngon
s/pores
Image: Mr Yeng in Grassroots Book Room. Image Courtesy of Tan Waln Ching
Issue #17
History and Critical Pedagogy
September 2018
Commentary: Critical Pedagogy
Chua Beng Huat
The Hunt for Mas Selamat
Sonny Liew
Beauty World
Sonny Liew
Writing Emergency: Teaching Singapore Literature in an Historical Frame
Philip Holden
History Education, Graphic Novels & Historical Thinking
Joseph Tham
Teaching The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Angelia Poon
Image: Illustration from The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015) by Sonny Liew
Issue #16
Being Young in the 1950s
January 2018
Editorial
Edgar Liao
Introduction to Constructing Nanyang Childhood
Edgar Liao
Civics for Young Malayans: Colonial Educator E H G Dobby in Singapore
Edgar Liao
Interview with Mr Arthur Yap – an English-educated youth in 1950s Singapore
Edgar Liao
In His Own Words: Writings of the young S. Rajaratnam
Ho Jin Yee
Image: Illustration from book cover of Constructing Nanyang Children: Studies of Chinese Children’s Publications in Post-War Singapore and Malaya (建构南洋儿童：战后新马华语儿童刊物及文化研究).
Issue #15
bookshops
January 2017
Editorial: Our 15th Issue – “bookshops” – Celebrating 10 years of s/pores
Wardah
Faris Joraimi
The Intellectual Legacy of Kampung Glam
Fadli Fawzi and Faris Joraimi
City Book Room (English Translation and Mandarin Original)
Tan Waln Ching
Image: Interior of Xinhua Cultural Enterprises
s/pores Commentary No. 1
November 2015
Some Men and a Red Box; A Woman and Her Handbag
Sai Siew Min
Image: Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s Red box, The Straits Times, 31 March 2015
Issue #14
Yang Tersirat
July 2015
Editorial
Fadli Fawzi and Khairulanwar Zaini
The Absent Mother: Malay Cinema, Cultural Memory and Mediated Spectatorship
Alfian Sa’at
Reading Resistance in the Malay Heritage Centre
Khairulanwar Zaini
Remembering the Malay Left
Fadli Fawzi
API, AWAS, GERAM: Shamsiah Fakeh’s struggle for Malaya’s independence
Nurhaizatul Jamil
Ideology and Utopia in Al Imam
Fairoz Ahmad
“Living the lives of Hanyut”: The Construction of Malay Youth Delinquency in Singapore
Siti Hazirah Binte Mohamad
Sebutan Baku and the need to redefine the limits of culture
Annaliza Bakri
Image: Still from Bujang Lapok (1957) dir. P. Ramlee
Issue #13.2
Objectum – an exhibition
March 2014
Objectum: An Exhibition on the Shifting Meanings of Daily-Life Museum Objects
Wong Lee Min
Image: Photograph of toilet paper roll by Ken Cheong for Objectum
Issue #13.1
after|thought – an exhibition
August 2013
Review of LUCIFUGOUS (X’HO + ARCN TEMPL)
Senile Dementia
Image: Exhibition view of after|thought from Curating Lab: Phase 03
Issue #12
Sex Spaces in Singapore: Encounters, Inhabitants, and Identities
May 2013
Editorial
Terence Chong
Public Morality in Sex Spaces
Vanessa Ho
Is Joo Chiat’s ‘Little Vietnam of pho and sex’ a thing of the past? – Essay and Photo Essay
Nicolas Lainez
Social Visits and Special Passes: Carceral Spaces of Migrant Sexual Labour in Singapore
Sallie Yea
Ethnographic Sex Work Research in Singapore: Who gets to speak?
Lu Huiyi
Imaginary Frontiers and Deferred Masculinity: Singapore Working Class Men in Batam
Terence Chong
Image: Geylang Road (source: Terence Chong)
Issue #11
The pOp cUltURe Is-U
October 2012
Editorial
Lim Cheng Tju
Introduction: Pop Culture in Singapore
Chua Beng Huat
An Interview with Sonny Liew
Lim Cheng Tju
“Model student” TV: The Inter-school Debates and the Politics of Education
Clarissa Oon
Review of Sun Worshipper
Joseph Tham
A Stone’s Throw Away
Leslie Low
The Early Comics of Eric Khoo
Lim Cheng Tju
ART: An Interview with Cheo Chai Hiang
Yvonne Low
Shaun’s Home Parties: A Photo Essay
Introduction by Lim Cheng Tju
Review of Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise
Choy Kam Leong Larry
The Making of Ten Sticks and One Rice
Oh Yong Hwee and Koh Hong Teng
Image: Extract from Love You by Eric Khoo
Issue #10
so what?
September 2011
Editorial
Kwee Hui Kian and Teng Siao See
Interview with Alvin Tan
Teng Siao See and Kwee Hui Kian
Interview with John Gee
Kwee Hui Kian
Interview with Corinna Lim
Kwee Hui Kian and Teng Siao See
Routes not Roots
Philip Holden
Image: Solidarity for Migrant Workers Rally 2009 jointly organised by HOME, TWC2 and Migrant Voices (http://www.home.org.sg/events/gallery/SolidarityRally/index.html)
Issue #9
the arts II
June 2011
Editorial
Sketches from Prison
Teo Soh Lung
The Seventies: Transition from Cultural Desert to Global City
Robert Yeo
Reclaiming Literature for Singapore
Alvin Pang
Eulogy for Fang Xiu
Chng Seok Tin
Theatre and its Publics, and Everything Else
Richard Chua
of love, and sweets
John Low
Meaning/Making A Circuit Of Cheo Chai-Hiang’s The Story of Money
Isabel Ching
Learning to Adapt: Dave Chua and Koh Hong Teng’s Gone Case
Gwee Li Sui
Review: Singapura Uber Alles
Joseph Tham
In memoriam: Tan Jing Quee (1939-2011)
s/pores
Merger and Malaysia (1961)
Tan Jing Quee
Image: Teo Soh Lung, Lizard scratching its ear
Issue #8
intellectuals
December 2010
Editorial
Francis Lim
The Shifting Sands of Time: Boo Junfeng’s Sandcastle as Filmic History
Lim Cheng Tju and Hong Lysa
Portrait of a Modernist Poet: Lin Fang
Chiu Weili
Reading Kuo Pao Kun’s Early Leftist Plays
Clarissa Oon
Situating The Tangent: Chinese-educated intellectuals in Singapore’s socio-political history
Kelvin Chia
Suspending/escaping Race: A Civil Society Experience
Constance Singam
The Trouble with ‘Idealism’: Reflections on Intellectual Vocation and Moral Reasoning
Kwok Kian Woon
Review: Realism in Asia
Lim Cheng Tju
Review: Beyond the Blue Gate
Philip Holden
Image: Still from Sandcastle (2010) dir. Boo Junfeng
Issue #7
men in white
August 2010
Editorial
Forum on Men in Black or White: History as Media Event in Singapore
Chua Beng Huat
From People’s Action Party to Men in White
Philip Holden
What a Book! What a Launch! What a Story!
Tan Tarn How
Men in White and the forever missing handshake
Hong Lysa
Review: Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaya
Liew Kai Khiun
Image: Photograph from the book cover of Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Ruling Political Party by Sonny Yap, Richard Lim, and Leong Weng Kam
Issue #6
the arts I
March 2010
Editorial
Tan Tarn How
Culture and the Arts ‘After’ Kuo Pao Kun
C. J. W.-L. Wee
For wolfnotes
Lee Tzu Pheng
Third Stage
Wong Souk Yee
“But there is nothing here to shoot…”
Tay Kay Chin
Raising the Subject
Jason Wee
Censure and Censor
Loretta Chen
National Songs Revisited: From Propaganda to Pop to Anti-cool Kitsch
Tan Shzr Ee
First-World Economy, Third-World Culture
Michelle Loh
Review: +65 Indie Underground
Joseph Tham
Image: Susie Wong, ephemera, 2009, presented at the exhibition, wolfnotes. From My Paper, October 6, 2009.
Issue #5
detention
October 2009
Editorial
A Public Oral History of the Singapore Left in 2006
Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee
Hide-and-Seek History
Teng Qian Xi
Ex-Political Detainee Forum at Singapore in 2006
Kevin Blackburn
Forgetting Detention
Sai Siew Min
Review: Dark Folke by The Observatory
Ang Song Ming
Image: Illustration from the book cover of That We May Dream Again, edited by Fong Hoe Fang
Issue #4
if
July 2009
Editorial
Tan Pin Pin
Once Bonded
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Reminiscences on a HDB Point Block
Ho Weng Hin
学语以外: Beyond Language Learning
李慧玲 Lee Huay Leng
Image: Advertisement for the Ministry of Education Teaching Scholarship, The Straits Times, 6 March 2009
Issue #3
commemoration
June 2009
Editorial
Aggression in Asia
M.K. Rajakumar and Poh Soo Kai
Speech at the Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar
Poh Soo Kai
M.K. Rajakumar: A Life Well Lived
Tan Jing Quee
That He Shall Not Die a Second Death
Edgar Liao
The Enigma of A. Samad Ismail
Tan Jing Quee
Hankering for National Heroes
Hong Lysa
The Making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some Personal Reflections
Mark Ravinder Frost
David Marshall: A Bittersweet Remembrance
Daniel PS Goh
Review: 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s – The Definitive Collection
Joseph Tham
Singapore in Mid-twentieth Century: The Deep Divide
CN Chen
Image: “Aggression in Asia,” the cover article of the May 1954 issue of Fajar
Issue #2.2
archives & memory II
February 2008
Editorial
An Interview with Wang Gungwu (in the mid-1980s)
Robert Yeo
New University, Three Generations: China, Malaya, Singapore, 1949-2007
Wang Gungwu
Review: Memories & Reflections: The Singapore Experience: Documenting a Nation’s History Through Oral History
Loh Kah Seng
Image: University of Malaya, Bukit Timah Campus, Singapore circa 1950s
Issue #2.1
archives & memory I
January 2008
Editorial
Introduction to Learning Me Your Language
Philip Holden
Learning Me Your Language
Wang Gungwu
Trial and Error in Malayan Poetry
Wang Gungwu
Three Faces of Night
Wang Gungwu
Moon Thoughts
Wang Gungwu
Archive Fever … in Singapore: An Interview with CC Chin
Sai Siew Min
Approaching Life and Death: History and Memory in Interviews With Individuals Formerly Suffering from Leprosy in Singapore
Loh Kah Seng
Once Upon a Time, a Mendicant Professor in Singapore: Remembering the Enright Affair (November 1960)
Edgar Liao
Usman Awang in Singapore
Tan Jing Quee
Whose invisible city? Articulating Singapore’s pasts in Invisible City
Hong Lysa
Narrating the Nation: Thirty Years of A History of Singapore Conference Report
PJ Thum
Image: Still from Invisible City (2007) dir. Tan Pin Pin
Issue #1
inauguration
April 2007
Editorial
“A Subaltern Perspective on History” (人下人的历史观): Reading Fang Zhuang Bi’s (方壮壁) Memoir
Sai Siew Min
A Personal Journey In Search Of Fajar
Lim Cheng Tju
Huang Kaide’s Our Memories
Kwee Hui Kian
Interpreting National Language Class
Daniel PS Goh
The Continuing Saga of Singapore’s Story
Hong Lysa
In Memory of Linda Chen (1928-2002)
Tan Jing Quee
Ho Piao: A Personal Recollection and Appreciation
Tan Jing Quee
Education at Large: An Exhibition on Student Activities and Activism In Singapore, 1945-1965
Francis Lim Khek Gee
Image: Photograph of Fang Zhuang Bi (方壮壁/Fong Chong Pik) from the book cover of 马共全权代表：方壮壁回忆录.