Can you choose your race? This may be a thorny issue with many, but in the land of table-top role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), choosing your race is how you begin. You can pick among a handful of options: an elf, a dwarf, a half-orc.  Step into the shoes of a mountain dwarf, and…

Dungeons and Dragons is a roleplaying game that is making a comeback in Singapore – and now you can pay to play by hiring professional Dungeon Masters to run the game for you. What is it like to make a living out of bringing fantasy worlds to life? And what can storytelling games add to…

In the third and final part of this series reflecting on key turning points in Singapore’s journey towards achieving gender equality, writer Kellynn Wee focuses on how the pandemic has revealed crack lines in crucial issues surrounding the advancement of women’s rights in Singapore. These include work and care responsibilities, domestic violence, and migration. The…

In part two of a three-part series that reflects on key turning points in Singapore’s journey towards achieving gender equality, writer Kellynn Wee examines how Singapore’s most prominent women’s rights NGO, AWARE, was taken over by a church group in 2009 because of concerns around AWARE’s progressive stance on homosexuality. The first part can be…

This three-part series reflects on key turning points in Singapore’s journey towards achieving gender equality. Here, writer Kellynn Wee focuses on the government’s intervention in women’s reproductive lives. She describes the Great Marriage Debate of 1983, how it relates to issues around motherhood, and its link to social engineering policies today. Sixteen-year-old Wang Lixin came…

When she turned 30 years old, Samantha Tan decided it was time to move out of her childhood home. This is a perfectly ordinary thing to do in many other parts of the world: setting up your own home when you come of age is a common rite of passage. But this is land-scarce Singapore,…