• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Let's talk about rape

  Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 08/04/2014

  » Latest news on rape: still a major concern, still very real.

• OPINION

  Look at me, look at me. Please.

  Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/05/2014

  » Elliot Rodger was 20 years old and had never kissed a girl. He said he’d been in college for more than two-and-a-half years and was still a virgin, a fact that tormented him.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Planes, trains and tragedies

  Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 25/07/2014

  » For seven years, I flew back and forth between the US and Bangkok twice a year, always with at least a three-hour transit at Tokyo Narita Airport. If I was lucky and sat on the right side of the plane, I got to watch the sun rise above the sea of clouds from the plane window. My skin would always itch from the dry air and my lips would chap. I often found myself sitting next to a Japanese businessman who drank Asahi after Asahi. I once cried so hard watching Up, I had to explain to the concerned passenger next to me that I was OK — I was just watching a very sad cartoon.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  Motherhood isn't black and white

  Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 07/10/2014

  » 'White lesbian mother sues sperm bank after birth of biracial baby" read a recent headline. I thought I may have been reading The Onion.

• OPINION

  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. 

• OPINION

  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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