Ana the Foreign Mother

Not long after I started work at a women’s rights organisation, I was alerted by a friend that friend whose husband had taken her kids. This is how I learnt about the broken system in Malaysia and authorities who are quick to wash their hands off anything that smells of domestic problems. It is has […]

My Foray Into the Underground

As a girl of 14, sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car, I remember fuming to myself when I heard him say “Girls can’t do certain things.” “WHY NOT!”” I screamed at him silently in my head. So fueled was I by angsty teenage hormones and self-righteous anger, I actually scribbled down in pencil, […]

The Rising Population of Young Mothers

“There is poor, inadequate and suppressed awareness on fertility, adolescent sexuality and development. Some of them don’t even know why they got pregnant because they don’t know how their body works,” said Kitong.  Solid proof that education is absolutely vital; self-education even more so. How do we allow  the younger generation of the world go […]

International Women’s Day: It Cannot Be Okay

While skimming through tweets, I read one that posed this question: What do we fight for on International Women’s Day? Which issues should we focus on? What does it mean to be a woman? It is officially International Women’s Day in my country. There will be a gathering of women, all sizes and shapes, all […]