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Pink Fractal: Queer Futures & Singapore Sci-Fi
venue: gallery
date: Sat, 26 April
time: 2pm- 3:15pm
Over the past ten years, Singapore’s seen an incredible new wave of speculative fiction writing, with queer sci-fi authors like Neon Yang, Vina Jie-Min Prasad and Kevin Martens Wong at its forefront. This panel brings together established and emerging Singaporean writers to discuss this movement. What defines queer Singaporean sci-fi? What relevance does it have to activism and social justice? And how does it relate to our imagined futures for the greater queer community?
MEET YOUR SPEAKERS!
Ng Yi-Sheng (he/him) - panel moderator
Ng Yi-Sheng is a Singaporean writer, researcher and activist. His books include the short story collection Lion City and the poetry collection last boy (both winners of the Singapore Literature Prize), the nonfiction work SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century and the children’s history book Twisted Temasek. Additionally, he served as editor of A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and Wok and EXHALE: an Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices, and as translator for Wong Yoon Wah’s The New Village and Homecomings. He tweets and Instagrams at @yishkabob.
Choo Yi Feng (he/him)
Choo Yi Feng (he/him) is an intertidal explorer, climate activist, ecologist and fiction writer. The Waiting Room is his debut short story collection. Elsewhere, his short stories have previously been published in Foglifter Journal, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Queer Southeast Asia and Alluvium, the journal of Literary Shanghai. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022.
nor (they/them)
nor’s artistic practice hopes to situate belonging and community within speculative timelines. Their works span the disciplines of photography, film, video, performance, text and spoken word poetry to engage with ideas of belonging and identity through frameworks of gender performance, ethnographic portraits and transnational histories. Their debut poetry collection with Ethos, homesick, will be launched in June 2025.
Joyce Chng (she/her/they/them)
Joyce Chng lives in Singapore. They write science fiction and fantasy as well as YA and MG. Their short stories have appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, The Future Fire and Multispecies Cities.
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