Stimuli.
I’ve been thinking about how bodies react to stressful situations or fall into PTSD, and how private and public struggles compound each other. There are many challenging and difficult things…
Tag: US Presidential Elections
From Subversive Frivolity to Normativity: A lineage of Trump memes
The internet has been saturated with Trump memes. Some times they are hilarious, some times they are hurtful. Some times they bring relief, some times they are agonizing. This post is…
Things a Singaporean appreciates about the US Presidential Elections.
I am a Singaporean woman in my late 20s. To date, I have closely followed x03 US Presidential Elections, x02 SG General Elections, and x01 SG Presidential Elections. This post is…
Global politics is micropolitics.
I’ve just spent ten minutes waiting for a bus on campus in Singapore and overheard students say these things with respect to the election results: 1) “It’s not gonna affect…
Parochial anxiety.
Many world leaders have issued official congratulations to the new president dude on social media, as has the Prime Minister of Singapore – a tiny country of 5 million that…
Singaporeans react to Donald Trump.
At the confluence of three events in the past 20 hours, discourse on Presidential Candidate Donald Trump was trending on Singaporean social media: 1) Trump claimed that Singapore is among the Asian…
