angmohsnowball.bsky.social
i guess i'm queer now on bluesky huh.
singaporean but not in singapore / queer but not here / naturist but not posting nudes here (minors DNI cos I miiiiight talk about saucy stuff) / antifascists only pls/ FREE PALESTINE
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well, this was rude, and i’m not sure where it came from, but i can’t help but think of another time someone was rude to me for reasons i couldn’t explain. this is a story i’ve wanted to tell for some time. in a sense, i suppose it is about sports.
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The person I was talking about was white, but quite a number of people I met while travelling have said this, from Asian-Americans to Europeans and more. Singapore cannot claim it's 'racially harmonious' when only some people can say that to be true.
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Special shoutout to THIS quote in its' conclusion (modified for readability here): "We cannot dissociate the civil code from the structures of domination that enabled it in the first place".
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If you want to know more, there's this incredible paper I found, written last year after THAT similarly insane brownface advertisement that appeared a few years ago, talking about minstrelsy and its' effects on SG: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Also there's an incredible lack of education of minstrelsy in colonial/early Singapore. People are led to think it's a form of racism specific to certain places (like USA) cos of it, when this has been going on for CENTURIES in Singapore and, yes, it's still racist no matter where you do it.
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But racism intended to 'joke', like minstrelsy, may still receive condemnation, but not an outward rejection. Doing so would call to explicitly racialised power dynamics that SG is built upon, where White/Chinese people dehumanize non White/Chinese bodies to the point where they can be a costume.
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SG's state has formed a narrative of what types of racism SHOULD be condemned. They really only condemn direct confrontations like "fuck [insert race here]" or racial slurs, anything with an outward appearance of attacking others. Those get condemned, regardless of the context of how it happens.
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Tell me which other 'non-racist' place hires people from some countries (PHI/IND/MYA) to act as domestic servants, people from other countries (IND/BAN) as migrant construction workers, where it's okay to pay them extraordinarily low wages & surveil them in dorms far away from the city centre.
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take eternal seash and eternal lusty, it'd be fun
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Shocking that I havent seen any band or artist beginning with the first letter of the alphabet, I'm such a letdown.
Also this list being by letter means that RHCP is here purely by default. If ONLY Black Midi was named Red Midi, or if Superorganism was just a Regular Organism, RHCP is off this list
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I do have a LONG way to go, need to build back that stage confidence (from someone with anxiety LETS GOOO) and definitely need to brush up on the stage basics that I've last practiced a full decade ago (THANKS CJ DRAMA LOVE Y'ALL STILL), but I'M COMMITTED LETS GOOOO
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Sidenote, to anybody subscribed to Dropout rn, please PLEASE watch From Ally to Zacky. It's legit the best long-form improv I've seen in a LONG time, the whole tattoo parlour scene is legit the spark that made me take classes. How stories & characters develop & weave in that scene... CINEMA.
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Ready or Not (2019)
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legitimately the best album of the year in my opinion, its just so damn understatedly hilarious, incredibly clever, RICH in character and its also a banger if that helps.
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i mean I'd rather be slutty in other public institutions but if you insist...
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Like Sg has a LOT to learn transit wise, especially cos a lot of ppl take public transit there, cycleways are both a commuting option AND a workplace (for delivery riders), and walking around is a nightmare with climate change.
Make SG difficult to drive in. And don't let more cars on the road.
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Like I can't & won't fault the MRT (well... apart from when it does fault), but taking the bus is significantly slower (esp without priority & separation from car traffic), being a pedestrian becomes an absolute hike across 6-8 lane roads, cyclists are vilified everywhere, and more.
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But by comparison, Singapore is MUCH more easy to drive in. Thicc roads that are much faster to drive on, roads in the city are prioritized for car traffic, little pedestrianization & taking public transit is almost always slower, no matter how frequent it is.
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(not saying Naarm doesnt hv problems of its own. Lookin at u, lack of airport rail, citylink, fairly infrequent upfield line, Princes Hwy and other stroads of your ilk)
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When I did recently drive in Naarm, it was hella frustrating. Having to wait for ALL the trams, needing to take a circuitous route around the city, slower roads in general, and roads that only continue on for pedestrians & cyclists but blocked for cars.
And that's SUCH A GOOD THING!
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Naarm has trams aplenty that often has their own, faster routes into the city and extend into the suburbs, combined with an extensive metro & regional rail network. I've never needed a car while living there for a few months now. Pedestrians & cyclists are also given priority when on/crossing roads.