Post-Valentine’s Day, Beyond the Hijab and Pentas Masyarakat invite you into a space of radical exploration and vulnerability on love, care, community + some cathartic collaging! bell hooks once said that there is no ‘school of love’ from which we are taught how to love. We learned love first from family, then society, and these…
Read MoreThe Government plans to pass the “Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill” later this year. As a group comprising of minorities, the proposed Maintenance of Racial Harmony Bill (“the Bill”) has raised considerable concerns. Our key concerns with the Bill are: The Bill sets us back in our obligations as a signatory of International Convention on…
Read MoreThis shadow report is jointly submitted by Beyond the Hijab and Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, for consideration by the CEDAW Committee in its review of the Government of Singapore, reporting before the 88th Session of the CEDAW Committee in May 2024. The report examines the necessity for…
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By Jade (as told to Filzah) __ The conversation was in Malay and English. The conversation has been edited for readability and length. F: Hi Jade, thank you for agreeing to speak to me. Our theme for this blog series is on income inequality. So let’s start with your work history first lah. When you…
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By Chahaya co-written with Mei.__ In 2018, I met Chahaya through a mutual friend. Chahaya has always lived in financial precarity and the pandemic made things worse. Her husband had his hours cut and her children had to shift to online learning, which increased her electricity bills. Her family was thrown into debt again, unable…
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by Zubaida Ali __ “You know you are getting all this for free right?”, said a medical social worker whose job was to assess and dispense government funds to Rahimah, her client. Never mind that Rahimah is wheelchair bound, suffers from organ failure, needs an external stoma bag in place of a kidney and is…
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