KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 — Libraries of Resistance (LoR) is an online portal that features stories from marginalised communities and human rights defenders who resist oppression and...
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 — Libraries of Resistance is an online portal that features stories from marginalised communities and human rights defenders who resist oppression and centre the building of communities across North- and South-East Asia.
“So how do we create fair working conditions for storytellers at individual, team, and systemic levels? How do we resist repeating the same exploitative practices that are rampant in the arts and media fields?” Loke went on to say.
“Covid-19 was a strange and scary time for all of us but especially those in extreme isolation — many people in Malaysia were fearful of going out to get necessities like food or seek medical assistance because of their status as an undocumented person,” he said.is a poetry zine put together by seven writers through workshops themed on migration and borders which were held over several weeks.
“Language is used to categorise, to homogenise, to humiliate, to degrade, to decide who is fluent and who is not.” In the introduction to her poem, Enbah says that her great-grandfather was rumoured to have been tortured to death by Japanese soldiers for helping a fellow labourer who had contracted cholera fake his attendance.
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