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The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastTeriTeri is a queer trans Singaporean boi. At the time of this interview, he is working in crypto. He discusses coming out to a queer school counsellor, interschool soccer team crushes, how his fashion sense changed alongside his gender expression, walking for New York Fashion Week, and thoughts on actively participating in capitalism.
Content warnings: mentions of homophobia, transphobia, violence, profanity
Important timestamps:
• 0:24 – Realising that he’s queer
• 2:07 – Coming out to his school career counsellor
• 5:39 – Leaving Singapore
• 8:24 – Exploring his identity in th...2021-07-031h 17The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastLL is a current student at the National University of Singapore’s Arts and Social Sciences Faculty. He speaks about his realisation of his own queerness, his experiences in the education system, the military and in university with regard to his identity, his participation in Pink Dot, his experience as an organiser of queer student groups, and about his personal life.
Key Terms: Student Activism, National Service, Pink Dot, Education, Coming Out.
Important timestamps:
· 03:00 – JC
· 04:36 – the lack of queer resources
· 09:27 – JC rule against cross-dressing
· 11:03 – realising sexuality in NS
· 19...2021-07-021h 01The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastDrakeDrake is a 24-year-old cis gay man who isn’t particularly attractive or smart, but he is vaccinated. At the point of recording, he is in year two of a Bachelor’s degree in counselling and sometimes makes music under the name ‘soft universe’.
Content warnings: depression, rape, suicide attempt, bullying
Important timestamps:
● 5:59 – bullying in secondary school
● 9:13 – poly
● 12:46 – depression
● 15:52 – the ex (content warning: rape, suicide attempt)
● 23:55 – NS
● 31:43 – uni
● 34:35 – dating
● 39:37 – dating and body
● 46:26 – therapy
● 1:00:59 – the tea on school counsellors
● 1:06:40 – music2021-06-301h 27The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastAndy WinterAndy Winter is a trans nonbinary Aries sun, Cancer moon, Sagittarius rising, with an Aries Venus, a Mercury in Taurus, and a Mars in Virgo. They are a poet, artist, Chaos and Violence incarnate, and hot but in a scary way. In this interview, they discuss online text-board communities, art, their politics of survival, language games, Drag Wars, school life, and how the entity known as Andy Winter was birthed.
Content warnings: bullying, institutional violence, profanity
Important timestamps:
• 00:24 – figuring out their queerness, in school and on online communities
• 08:57 – roleplay...2021-06-293h 44The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastIliya IzzudinIliya is your typical gay boy/drag queen. He is a Theatre Gay turned drag queen and at the point of recording studies in Zoom University and sometime NUS. In this interview, he discusses the isolation of being queer in school, family, NS, community, drag culture in Singapore, and the difference between queer and gay spaces.
Content warnings:
Important timestamps:
• 0:35 – overview
• 22:30 – being the only gay person in Singapore
• 25:53 – the tea on gay hookups
• 33:04 – childhood trauma
• 35:39 – starting drag
• 41:59 – looking for gays in university
• 46:42 – gay vs queer...2021-06-2853 minThe Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastGG is a gay trans man. He likes nature, including bugs. In this interview, he discusses the experience of being a young trans man and his worries about the future.
Important timestamps:
• 0:54 – realising his gender identity
• 5:24 – queer community and social support
• 7:05 – fears about coming out
• 17:00 – the state of the queer and trans community in Singapore
For the full transcript, go to https://sgqueeroralhistoryarchive.wordpress.com/2021/06/17/g/2021-06-2722 minThe Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastGEGE is a bisexual man who used to be a conspiracy theorist and managed to pull himself out of the wacky world of young earth creationism with the power of love. At the point of recording, he is fresh out of NS and about to enter university. In this interview, he discusses his experiences growing up in conservative Christian environments, the echo chamber that a cell group environment created, and learning to become more open-minded despite that.
Content warnings: Christianity, homophobia, transphobia
Important timestamps:
• 3:44 – family
• 5:21 – church and cell group
• 7:40 – leaving the...2021-06-2732 minThe Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastLune part 2Lune is a poet, activist, transbian, philosopher, leftist, and a Capricorn, not necessarily in that order. She is a recovering gacha game fan who strongly believes in the superiority of sisterhood over romance but falls in love every girl who is nice to her. At the time of recording, she is burnt out and trying to get ready for her fourth year of university. In this interview she discusses her father, the switch from masculine subcultural spaces to queer spaces, philosophy, community, activism, and the state of student activism.
Content warnings: patriarchy, sexual violence, swearing, institutional violence...2021-06-264h 16The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastLune part 1Lune is a poet, activist, transbian, philosopher, leftist, and a Capricorn, not necessarily in that order. She is a recovering gacha game fan who strongly believes in the superiority of sisterhood over romance but falls in love every girl who is nice to her. At the time of recording, she is burnt out and trying to get ready for her fourth year of university. In this interview she discusses family history, Japanese subcultural spaces, the Singapore literary scene, her friends in the writing collective \s@ber, and Tembusu.
Content warnings: patriarchy, sexual violence, swearing, institutional violence, slurs2021-06-263h 56The Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastVanVan is a professional mess and a Leo who believes strongly in having 24/7 Girlfriend Loving Hours. At the point of recording, she is a year 3 student in NUS FASS, and fairly new at being queer because of compulsory heterosexuality.
Content warnings: institutional violence, parental disputes
The audio quality in this recording has been edited to reduce background noise, however some still remains as it was recorded in a public space.
Important timestamps:
• 0:15 – self description
• 1:01 – overview of the queer experience in Singapore
• 4:43 – how she discovered she was queer
• 6:52...2021-06-2533 minThe Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastJohnJohn is a cis Chinese male with enough self-awareness to take advantage of it but not enough self-control to hide his flaming homosexuality. At the point of recording, he has freshly graduated from NUS and has started his job search. In this interview, he discusses heteronormativity, family, sexuality education (and the lack thereof) in Singapore, finding safe spaces, and communities of choice.
Content warnings: homophobia, familial disputes, slurs
The audio quality in this recording has been edited to reduce background noise, however some still remains as it was recorded in a public space.
...2021-06-2559 minThe Singapore Queer Oral History PodcastCariCarissa (or Cari, or Khalisah) is a self-described an-com, community organiser by necessity, and very queer. She is a trans lesbian hijabi who studied in NUS from 2017 and was going to start her final year when the interview was recorded. In this interview, she discusses trauma in her schooling life, being a trans lesbian in NS, coming out, finding community, the various interactions with different institutions as she tried organising to support her community, and her relationship with religion and conversion to Islam.
Content warnings: suicidal ideation, discussion of death and suicide, discussion of sexual assault...2021-06-245h 16