Fight the Fights That Matter | Liberty Street
“Fight the fights that matter” is seen imprinted on a seemingly ordinary, everyday shirt. But this message strikes up a powerful conversation that represents a movement that “Liberty Street” founders Joe Lacanilao and Lawrence Aritao are hoping to create. A budding social enterprise that takes a stand against human trafficking and sexual exploitation, Liberty...
Peepoo
Over the weekend, 2 layers of plastic bags with its front labeled in jungle green caught my attention when I read it on a Swedish design website. Initially, I thought they were plastic bags designed to collect dog poo in public areas. To my surprise, the plastic bag is actually a plastic “toilet” for...
Arts in Service | Playback Theatre in Philippines
As students and aspiring artists of School of the Arts, we constantly question whether art has any greater purpose beyond aesthetics. Can art be a means of social change? Can art be used to serve the larger picture? In June last year, as part of an overseas serve learning project, a group of theatre students...
3 Heroic Women
On December 2012, the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern in India has caught worldwide attention and it has changed the women in India forever. Women in India are now taking big steps to get their voices heard. In countries like India, Pakistan, Cambodia and Africa, many rape cases goes unreported....
Don’t be Afraid of Being Naked
This is Who I Am Most of us, especially those in our teenage years, would go through a period of time in which we feel insecure about ourselves whether in terms of our appearance, our body or well generally with ourselves. We can’t really help it, can we? But think again, maybe...
WILL | Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition 2012
The Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition 2012 provides a platform for inmates and ex-offenders to express their hopes and aspirations through art, showcase their artistic talents, foster closer family relationships and reach out to the community. Themed “Will”, the exhibition is inspired by sense of determination, strength and purpose to strive in the journey...
Jenny Pong Seow Ching | A Woman’s Perseverance
Our society today tends to have a natural tendency to be unappreciative with what they have. Little do they know, there are people out there who have to overcome major challenges every single day in performing the simplest tasks such as taking a shower. Today, we would like to tell you a short and inspiring...
Unplug
Let’s try to imagine what it’s like to live without electricity. It’s going to be boring for sure – no internet, no television, no Youtube, no mobile phone. Can you imagine how disconnected and paralyzed you would be? Guarantee that you can actually do some reading, but at night you won’t have light. Perhaps the...
NCSS Social Work
When we consider social work as a career, many shun away from the thought as the term usually connotes a job that is demeaning, low-paying and highly emotional. Not the best combination when one is in search of a job. But how many of us can say that what we currently do for a living...
Kony 2012
If you have yet to hear who Joseph Kony is, I suggest you start a google search now. Joseph Kony is a Ugandian guerrilla group leader and is head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments throughout Uganda. Directed...
Slutwalk
The desensitization of pejoratives as used in the media is hardly something new. Words like ‘bitch’ and ‘slut’ are commonly tossed around as an acceptable way of describing a woman, regardless of whether she is deserving of such titles. The term ‘slut’ is commonly defined as a woman who is promiscuous and overtly sexual. In...
A Legend in Her Own Right
From the 16th to 20th May 2011, CNN’s Hero of the Year 2010, Mrs. Anuradha Koirala, and the director Maiti Nepal, Mr. Bishwo Ram Khadka, were hosted in Singapore by Mrinalini Venkatachalam from UNIFEM Singapore, Aparna Thadani from Prospero World and assistant film producer of The End/Beginning, a film on Mrs. Koirala’s life, Karishma Chanrai,...
Opportune
I’ve been musing about the idea of opportunity. An opportune place. An opportune position. An opportune placement. The chinese description for this is: 天时地利人和. Being at the right place at the right time with the right people. There’s a place to be prepared. To keep pursuing one’s heart, passions and delight. To bravely take a...
YOU ARE LOVE l Holly Gabarek: No Food, Fast Food and Food Coma
Pacing up and down the canned food aisle at the overly crowded supermarket this evening, right hand following my feet scrolling right, then left, then right, then left again trying to find something that would wrench my 6 o’clock heart. My left just dangled giving my forearm the task of a shopping basket hanger...
引き籠もり| Hikikomori
After a long day at work or school, you come home to rest your tired body. You drag yourself up to your room, close the door, and flop onto the bed, ready to give up dinner and just sleep in your work clothes or uniform. Your room is a place of solace for you, an...
You Are Love | Insecurities
Insecurity denotes a lack of confidence. It makes you feel uncomfortable and awkward, it can happen in any situation at all, and it’s a reminder that you’re far from perfect. As daunting as insecurity may seem, remember that ultimately, they should never stop you from doing what you love, but push you to be...
UNTIL IT BECAME A MELODY
The gates of hell were open last afternoon. A wild beast wailing in the living room. Rocking back and forth, back and forth until it became a melody. The air is still. Life is dead. But one murmur in the dark. Teeth against rusty metal. He weeps for his master, For whom dignity is...
PINKDOT
Pink was the colour on the 23rd of June, at Hong Lim Park. Where supporters gathered together to promote the freedom to love. Beneath the good food, drinks, company and smiles there was an important purpose. I managed to speak to a few people, and here is what they had to say: “I came here...
YOU ARE LOVE | Somaly Mam & Sex Trafficking
Somaly Mam from Guggenheim Productions on Vimeo. Sex trafficking is a booming business all over the world and goes alarmingly unnoticed by just about everyone. Some organisations are so intimidating that activists have a hard time just getting in contact with the children involved, let alone saving them. It has been estimated that at least...
YOU ARE LOVE | Gay Bashing
Every school day, thousands of young people who identify with being either lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender face harassment, bullying, and even violence for simply being who they are. The documentary film ‘Teach Your Children Well‘ focuses its attention on the challenging issues of homophobia and violence in schools as directed against our LGBT youth....
YOU ARE LOVE | Dark SECRETS
The sophomore installation of You Are Love acknowledges the presence of dark secrets harboured by individuals like you and me. A cold-hearted criminal. A seemingly innocent adolescent. A passionate teacher. Or even a saint-at-heart. Everyone possesses secrets that they do not want to talk about; with some seemingly darker than others. These days, hiding skeletons...
YOU ARE LOVE | Child ABUSE
Presenting our inaugural photo series. In this first installation, we are subtly touching on various aspects of physical and sexual child abuse. Through similar literary and artistry expressions, we will acknowledge the existence of these underwhelmed issues. As victims relate their experiences, ACTUALLYMAG wants to tell them that they are not alone. There are people...
YOU ARE LOVE | Logo REVEAL
As much as we love to proclaim our insatiable passion for fashion, lifestyle and design loudly with ear-deafening capitals; we would also like to partake in raising awareness towards lamentable social issues and to translate airwaves of love to communities undergoing martyrdom – physical abusement, sexual violence, identity struggles, psychological abusement, prejudice, negligence and many...
