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Rethinking the discourse of sexual harassment 14 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
Published on The F-Word UK blog on 14th August 2013 After following Everyday Sexism on Twitter and reading its website for nearly a year, there are times when reading their continuous flow of sexu...
Sexist men and the people who love them 13 Aug 2013 | 03:51 am
First published on Loyar Burok on 12th August 2013 This article is about the men who walk amongst us whom we admire, whom we call our friends, lovers, husbands, fathers, brothers. If you prefer, this...
Mapping gender in public toilets of the non-Western world 23 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
First published on The State Magazine on 10 July 2013 Toilets: we need them as we all pee and shit. It seems as if our most basic homeostatic functions exist outside of time and space, abiding by the...
On blogging or how my life presents itself online 29 Jun 2013 | 05:15 am
The frightful genius of Charlie Brooker’s first episode of Black Mirror has got several things right about social media and new telecommunication technologies: how we choose to present ourselves to th...
Why did the independent Islamic film community fail in Indonesia? 28 Jun 2013 | 09:16 pm
Last year when I lived in Jakarta, I chased down people of the Indonesian film community – producers, directors, critics, scholars, festival organisers – to talk about the boom years of ‘Islamic cinem...
All singing and dancing – Islamic pop music in Indonesia 18 Jun 2013 | 05:18 am
First published on The State Pop singers like Vidi Aldiano are nothing like the nasyid* groups, the more conventional all-male singers of Islamic ditties. Young, fresh-faced and nary a skullcap in si...
All singing and dancing – Islamic pop music in Indonesia 18 Jun 2013 | 05:18 am
First published on The State Pop singers like Vidi Aldiano are nothing like the nasyid* groups, the more conventional all-male singers of Islamic ditties. Young, fresh-faced and nary a skullcap in sig...
Women’s exodus from the work force: Not a simply matter of brain drain 18 Jun 2013 | 05:12 am
An article I wrote with Clarissa Lee, Dahlia Martin and Fiona Lee, published on The Malaysian Insider, The B-Side, and Loyar Burok. A recent BFM podcast episode, “The New Brain Drain,” discussed the ...
Women’s exodus from the work force: Not a simply matter of brain drain 18 Jun 2013 | 05:12 am
An article I wrote with Clarissa Lee, Dahlia Martin and Fiona Lee, published on The Malaysian Insider, The B-Side, and Loyar Burok. A recent BFM podcast episode, “The New Brain Drain,” discussed the r...
Direct address in Asrul Sani’s Para Perintis Kemerdekaan 23 Apr 2013 | 05:07 pm
In my doctoral research on the poetics of Islam and gender in Indonesian cinema, I found a few inventive cinematic devices and techniques used in the Islamic film genre to achieve various desired effe...
