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The Super Bowl's dark side
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/02/2014
» February 2 was a day for the history books in Thailand.
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A symbol of pain isn't enough
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2014
» My knowledge of the Vietnam War traces back the image of the “Napalm Girl”, running down the road naked, screaming, her clothes melted. In the left foreground is another screaming boy. When I think of this photograph, I always imagine the photographer, Nick Ut, standing across from her, camera in hands.
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Really, there's only one World Cup team
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/06/2014
» ‘Dilma, this is ugly,” reads a protester’s sign aimed at Brazil president Dilma Rousseff, one of the many thousands who continue to take to the streets of major cities across the South American country. What began last year as small protests against the rise of public transportation fares has come to encompass a broader range of dissatisfaction with the government — and has gained significant momentum thanks to the Fifa World Cup taking place there.
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Just think about it, baby
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 29/08/2014
» The Department of Health Service Support has hastily issued a proposal for the surrogacy bill currently being drafted, suggesting a ban on surrogates who have no blood ties to the intended parents, in an attempt to prevent commercial surrogacy.
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Replacing statistics with narratives
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/11/2014
» I spent my Halloween weekend shuffling between panels at the Singapore Writers Festival, listening to horror stories. I had been assigned to attend sessions on a variety of discourses, from jazz and poetry to writing about the female body. Instead, I found myself sitting front row at every session featuring Jang Jin-Sung, a North Korean defector, Loung Ung, a survivor of the Pol Pot regime, and Mukesh Kapila, who was the UN commissioner in Sudan as genocide in Darfur broke out.
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Identity is a fluid state
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 09/12/2014
» Thai authorities are reportedly working with Malaysia to track the movements of people with dual Thai-Malaysian citizenship, for tax and security reasons. The practice isn't new, and concern over dual nationality isn't unique. It is inarguably based on prejudice, as the allegiance of the person with two nationalities is questioned. But allegiance to what?
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What I don't know now
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 20/01/2015
» I've had more than a week to think about Charlie Hebdo, and I need more time.
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The universal struggle for equality
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/02/2015
» Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina of Pussy Riot lie in a hole in the ground, wearing OMON riot police uniforms. They are slowly buried alive. Dirt fills the orifices in their faces. They can't breathe. In the music video of I Can't Breathe, released last week and shot in one long take, the Russian feminist punk rock group opted for emotion rather than anger. The group has chosen a new cause.
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