Kirsten Han 韩俐颖
@kirstenhan.com
🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net. Member of @transformjusticesg.bsky.social and @adpan.bsky.social.
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d agoMassive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here's the way I remember it: after "Girl I Love You", Robert Del Naja said that they were instructed not to play a song. They didn't say which song, but from what I can gather from their previous shows during this tour, it was a cover of "Regret of the Times" by a band called Seo Taiji and Boys.
Wayne Rée (he/they)@waynereewrites.com · 6d agoI am sadly not at all surprised that some asshole either watched a video online out of context or went to a Massive Attack show and was completely clueless as to their stance—and then decided to report them to the cops.
This week: Teenagers detained without trial under the ISA, investigations open into Massive Attack's concert in Singapore, and shouldn't MINDEF pay creative workers? www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-1-a...
WTC Wrap: 1 August 2026
This week: Teenagers detained without trial under the ISA, investigations open into Massive Attack's concert in Singapore, and shouldn't MINDEF pay creative workers?
wethecitizens.net
Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Massive Attack banned from Singapore after pro-Palestine display at show
The UK band is told not to return to the city-state after shouting "free Palestine" at a gig on Wednesday.
bbc.com
How long more must this dead horse be flogged, it is surely almost entirely decomposed www.straitstimes.com/singapore/co...
Law Society seeking to strike Pritam Singh off the rolls
The Law Society of Singapore seeks to strike Pritam Singh off the rolls at a disciplinary hearing on Aug 13 following his conviction for lying under oath. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at s...
straitstimes.com
This is what you have to do to navigate life in Vietnam: accept that things are precarious and constantly vulnerable to change. 📖: mekongreview.com/mou...
As the editor-in-chief of a literary magazine sometimes work is editing wonderful pieces from writers across Asia. Other times it is bashing on my laptop keyboard while internally muttering "admin is my passion" as I plough through a mountain of emails and chase people for paperwork
If you’re based in Singapore, come check out our booth at the Singapore Independent Media Fair on Saturday (25 July) from 1–7pm at Golden Village Cineleisure! Our latest issue will be available at a discounted price, and a selection of back issues will also be available for a suggested donation ⭐️
Came back from travels and realised that a cat jumped on our printer/scanner and photocopied my ID photo (which I left in the scanner) 10 times
The 15th hanging of the year was carried out in Singapore this morning.
🇹🇼🍿🇹🇭 The Thai director of the Taiwan Documentary and Film Festival in Bangkok stated that diplomats from the Chinese Embassy sought to pressure organisers into removing the name and logo of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture from the festival's promotional materials: www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/202...
Taiwan Film Festival organiser in Bangkok alleges Chinese Embassy interference
The Thai director of the Taiwan Documentary & Film Festival in Bangkok has alleged that diplomats from the Chinese Embassy sought to pressure organisers into removing the name and logo of Taiwan’s Min...
khaosodenglish.com
I hope E. Jean Carroll is smoking the kindest buds that have ever existed from a one million dollar bong handblown & inlaid with precious gems & minerals by some guy who lives on in a mountainside cabin and has a theory about the moon
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoThe president cannot accept the reality that he lost. And that he still owes her $83.3 million. trib.al/3dYvNPu
"After the arrest, Hong Kong’s security chief, Chris Tang, said that booksellers had a responsibility to ensure their books were lawful, 'just like merchants selling food have to make sure their food won’t make people sick'." This makes me sick, are you responsible?
‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids
Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months
theguardian.com
This was strange because there was a flavour that evoked the century egg in my mouth, but the direct taste in my tongue was still a salty corn chip
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 2w agoPresented without comment because I haven’t tried it yet
This week in Singapore: Views and reactions to the conclusion of the defamation suit against Bloomberg, and a quick look at the Auditor-General's annual report. www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-18-...
WTC Wrap: 18 July 2026
This week: Views and reactions to the conclusion of the defamation suit against Bloomberg, and a quick look at the Auditor-General's annual report.
wethecitizens.net
Singapore carried out the 14th execution of 2026 today—once again for a drug-related offence.
I'm sorry I don't spend very much time on Bluesky. I feel like I should, but every time I come here and scroll through my feed I develop the overwhelming need to escape into reading even more than the already considerable amount of fanfiction that I'm reading
Oh look, yet another career option I hadn't been aware of before I picked journalism
The Court of Appeal has dismissed our constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty for drugs in Singapore, agreeing w/ the lower court that we (3 sisters of men who’ve been executed + 4 activists) lack standing to bring such a challenge. They’ve ordered costs of S$25,000.
The Transformative Justice Collective was one of two organisations to be presented with the Documentation Award at the 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, for our work tracking capital punishment in Singapore. The other group was Iran Human Rights.
I'll be in Paris for the World Congress Against the Death Penalty next week, and will be speaking at this side event on capital punishment in the Asia Pacific. People who are registered for the World Congress can register for this!
'Arnold Is A Model Student', a film by Sorayos Prapapan, shines a light on unfairness within the Thai education system, challenging the notion of what it means to be a “model” within broken structures. 📖: mekongreview.com/flo...
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Is the twenty-first century an Asian one? According to former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan, this is entirely the wrong question to be asking. 📖: mekongreview.com/wha...
This week’s newsletter: Workers' Party activity, more on Singapore's AI era, and Jason Soo finally gets to screen his documentary again. www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-6-j...
WTC Wrap: 6 June 2026
This week: Workers' Party activity, more on Singapore's AI era, and Jason Soo finally gets to screen his documentary again.
wethecitizens.net
Mother Mary Comes To Me is Arundhati Roy’s most astute political act; in it, she fearlessly makes her most intimate confessions and, by doing so, reclaims the conditions under which she can be known. 📖: mekongreview.com/of-...
I've been asked if this was a reaction to @mekongreview.com running into issues with AI use among our contributors. It isn't, actually—I've not come across anything that's raised red flags while editing. But that doesn't mean we can assume that we'll never have to deal with AI.
Mekong Review@mekongreview.com · 2mo agoEarlier this year, we published our policy on AI—particularly generative AI—on our website. Read it here: mekongreview.com/mek...
