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"he can’t recognise the Singapore that I’m talking about, but I can" | Home, Community and Hope: Book launch of The Singapore I Recognise
Dec 4, 2023
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Teh Tarik with Walid IRL - Housing Security in Singapore with Ng Kok Hoe
Nov 30, 2023
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Teaching Symposiums
Nov 30, 2023
Ethos Books’ Book Village empowers educators with the tools to meaningfully engage with our texts...
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"the whole notion of 'loving critic' and somehow a need to perform loyalty or patriotism before you can actually criticise is also a bit of a rhetorical trap" | Ways to Love Singapore transcript
Nov 20, 2023
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Ethos Books Festive Market 2023
Nov 3, 2023
Join us from 1 - 3 December for our annual festive market! Featuring an eclectic indie mix of 17 ...
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"There is a joy in the very act of movement" | Into the Gap: Literary Adventures In Transit panel transcript
Oct 30, 2023
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"Do we adjust our own moral compass, or do we rebel?" | The Rise and Fall of an Anti-Hero: Book Launch of catskull
Aug 29, 2023
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"This is free verse that refuses freedom the way we see it" | Our Ultimate Wordlessness: The Enigma of Wong May's Poetry
Aug 17, 2023
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Home, Community and Hope: Book Launch of The Singapore I Recognise
Aug 14, 2023
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"Inclusion has to be about pulling these people who have been historically marginalised from these systems in the processes of remaking them" | Book Launch of Not Without Us : Centring Disability and Inclusion in Singapore
May 16, 2023
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"When I think about using the term [brown], I think about a sense of belonging which I think is particularly important in spaces where you many times don’t feel like you belong at all." | Brown, Reimagined: Book Launch of Brown is Redacted
Mar 6, 2023
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"So when we want to talk about what it means to decolonise we can’t expect everyone to speak the same language at the same level at the same time." | SWF x Ethos Books : Breaking the Colonial Gaze
Feb 9, 2023
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"Care is a way of structuring our world" | SWF x Ethos Books: Care is Revolutionary: Towards an Inclusive, Sustainable Future
Feb 2, 2023
A conversation co-presented with SWF and Ethos Books. Featuring Dawn Joy-Leong, Kristian-Marc Jam...
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"The absurdity of the local landscape really reflects hope" | SWF x Ethos Books : Absurdity in the Singaporean mundane
Feb 2, 2023
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"It's about trade-offs...What is being lost?" | Book Launch of Khairat Kita : Documenting a legacy of community aid
Jan 16, 2023
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"Sometimes these characters use stereotypes... as a way to disarm people" | Potong: Live Reading
Jan 11, 2023
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Ethos Books Festive Sale : Market Edition
Nov 16, 2022
Celebrate with us this festive season as we bring the Ethos Books Festive Sale back in person aft...
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SWF x Ethos Books | If Flowers Could Speak
Oct 28, 2022
A programme co-presented with SWF and Ethos Books. Featuring Mok Zining and This Humid House.
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"We need to see what we have in this piece of land in its own right as a precious living being that has existed for a long time" | Treasures from our Forests panel transcript
Aug 10, 2022
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"Writing like yourself or representing yourself on the page is also liberating" | Book Launch of How We Live Now
Jul 28, 2022
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"Communities are the backbone of civil society activism" | Meeting in the Middle | Doing & Being: Intersections of Community Organising
Jul 13, 2022
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"In the realm of the personal, we can also do a lot to resist colonial logics" | Decolonising our Natural Heritage panel transcript
Jul 4, 2022
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"Do you sever a tie, and is that a form of caring?" | Book Launch of Potong: To Care/Cut
Jun 29, 2022
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"Unless you speak up and make it public, people won’t think about it": Book Launch of Constance Singam's Where I Was
Apr 21, 2022
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"If we think of ourselves as implicated subjects, it’s really difficult to look away" : Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring book launch
Mar 17, 2022
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"When a human community is rich it allows nature to grow side by side": Making Kin with the Urban Jungle
Dec 30, 2021
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"Humans as a whole need to think beyond themselves": Making Kin Book Launch
Nov 17, 2021
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What's in a Publishing Contract? Transcript
Nov 8, 2021
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"We are all invariably defined by physical places that we occupy": Heartland Book Launch
Oct 18, 2021
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"There is certainly a cultural shift in the way literature is written": Singa-Pura-Pura Book Launch
Sep 14, 2021
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“Our eating turns nature into culture”: We Are How We Eat panel transcript
May 18, 2021
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Meeting in the Middle: The Right to Read
Apr 21, 2021
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"We need to be on the side of change": After the Inquiry Book Launch
Apr 8, 2021
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What is a Merdeka History? Raffles Renounced webinar transcript
Mar 2, 2021
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“I, we, and us make our society.” The Ground Speaks: Civil Society After GE2020
Aug 4, 2020
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When radical change becomes possible (Eating Chilli Crab Book Launch)
Jul 24, 2020
Access the full transcript from the book launch of Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene (Ethos ...
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The narrative has to change.
Apr 22, 2020
For Earth Day 2020, we bring you an edited transcript of Not Just Fiction: Writing the Climate Cr...
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Jinny Koh and Wong Shu Yun on family, expectations, and unconditional love
Dec 18, 2018
What happens when a lie changes the entire family (Atonement by Ian McEwan); your child becomes a...
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"Why should we be anything but writers?" – What We Represent When We Talk About Representation
Apr 6, 2017
by Jennifer Kwan (From left to right: Jennifer Kwan, Krishna Udayasankar, Noelle Q. de Jesus, Ji...
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