As part of the Southeast Asian Queer Cultural Festival 2021: Be/Longings, we are calling for submissions to an anthology of poems that engage with and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This digital anthology aims to gather the multivalent and polyphonic voices of queer Southeast Asian poets. It will consider how we have been affected and transformed under quarantine or lockdown, creating a space for poems that reflect our diverse experiences...

An ASEAN People Forum 2020 Side Event People power uprising and non-violent forces taking the streets to demand for substantive democracy are taking place in Indonesia and Thailand. Thai people are fed up with the rule of the military and the monarchy in co-opting democracy while Indonesians are angry at their legislative and executive power that give favor to the rich in order to enrich and strengthen the oligarch. People are taking to the...