This roundup summarises the most important news stories around the world in the last month (June 2021).
Author: guanyinmiao
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. Carlos Castaneda.
Advancing the rights of LGBTQ+ Singaporeans
In 2020, Daryl Yang was named by The Straits Times as one of 30 young Singaporeans under the age of 30. He’s been involved in human rights and political education, specifically LGBT rights and disability rights in the country. Today, we discuss his work with the Universal Periodic Review or the UPR, the joint UPR submission on Singapore’s LGBTQ+ community, as well as his thoughts on faith-based change efforts and issues for the community beyond 377A.
Sustaining the muscles of active citizenry and ground-ups for a more participatory democracy (Vincent Ng; COVID-19, one year on)
One year ago, we documented community initiatives and discussed structural challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. One year later, we are inviting the same guests back to talk about their work, how they are feeling, and what they think we have learnt or have yet to learn from the pandemic. Today, we have Vincent Ng, general manager of the co-operative A Good Space. We talk about his personal and professional development, including the co-operative’s work and his vision for active citizenry in the country.
“Thinking about futures”: Taking stock (with Eddie Choo)
After three episodes of the “Thinking about futures” mini-series – with Dr. Adrian Kuah, Cheryl Chung, and Aaron Maniam – we chat again with research associate Eddie Choo about what stood out to him. We end on a listener question about how organisations “do” futures or how organisations should be structured to optimise futures thinking.
Liyana Dhamirah’s “Homeless: The Untold Story of a Mother’s Struggle in Crazy Rich Singapore” (Book Club, June 2021)
These are the discussion prompts and notes from the June 2021 book club, when we discussed Liyana Dhamirah’s “Homeless: The Untold Story of a Mother’s Struggle in Crazy Rich Singapore”.
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