07.01.08
Posted in Entertainment at 3:19 pm by sayoni
The Nominations are now closed, and Voting can officially begin! We were as surprised as you when the nominations came up, but let’s just say that queer women and straight men have completely different tastes. Gone are the young stick-thin bikini girls, and in place, genuine women of substance dominate the list. We have playwrights, directors, actors, businesswomen, politicians, poets and more, and our list comprises a much wider age group.
And here, in order of no merit, are the nominees. Link to voting can be found after the list. Voting will be closed in two weeks.
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- technorati: queer, lesbian, singapore, celebrities, entertainment, hot 20 list, women
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06.24.08
Posted in Announcements at 8:58 pm by sayoni
Thank you all who responded to the call to take the survey and spread the word about it. The data-collection period is now over, and the report will be published in due course.
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06.13.08
Posted in Announcements, Entertainment at 12:17 am by sayoni
Every year, mainstream, men’s magazines such as FHM and Maxim publish lists of Hot 100 Women. And every year, we choke on those lists because they feature typically boring, made-for-straight-men, never-over-35, and never-over-110-pounds women. We know, that as queer women, we have way better taste, and we are able to appreciate all kinds of beauty.
Hence, we are opening nominations for our very own Sayoni Hot 20 List! Nominate about 2-15 female celebrities based in Singapore, or of Singapore origin - actresses, musicians, writers, directors (and politicians?) and more, whom YOU think are attractive and/or sexy. Do not rank them, simply list them.
Nominations will be closed in two weeks, after which voting will be opened. You can either leave a comment or email us privately at admin@sayoni.com.
- technorati: beauty, celebrities, hot 20 list, women
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06.11.08
Posted in Bisexuality, Entertainment at 11:55 am by pleinelune
Coming at you a little late this week, we present to you, pain for love, and ultimate twists.
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- technorati: gay, lesbian, queer, tila tequila
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06.09.08
Posted in Advice Column, Relationships at 7:58 pm by ling
This begins a new column on Sayoni Speak, Letters to Ling. Facing a problem with your life, your sexuality, relationship, family et cetera? Write in to our advice columnist, Ling, with your problem. All emails are confidential and your anonymity will be preserved.
Dear Ling,
I am living with my girlfriend of three years. We’re really in love, and we plan to spend the rest of our lives together… except for the fact that there is this really cute co-worker who I am really physically attracted to, and I really can’t help it. I don’t love my girlfriend any less, she’s still the love of my life, and everything is fine in our sex life. So I don’t understand why I am so attracted to her, and it is very distracting at work, and I feel really guilty about thinking of someone else at all. I am terrified my girlfriend will find out and it is going to ruin our relationship, even though I’ve done nothing with the other girl, who happens to be gay as well.
What do I do?”
“Feeling Guilty”
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- technorati: relationship, love, cheating, lesbian, attraction
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06.05.08
Posted in Coming out, Politics at 4:42 pm by sayoni
Kanako Otsuji became Japan’s first openly lesbian politician when she was elected to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly in April 2003 at the age of 28 - making her the youngest person ever to be elected to the Assembly.
In 2007, Ms. Otsuji was an official Democratic Party of Japan candidate. She lost the Upper House election with 38,229 votes. If she had won, she would have been Japan’s first openly gay national politician.
Over breakfast, she talked to Sayoni about being an openly gay politician in Japan.
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- technorati: lesbian, gay, japan, kanako otsuji, politics, coming out
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06.03.08
Posted in Bisexuality, Entertainment at 11:52 am by pleinelune
High-profile lesbian scandals and wrestling… that is what we have for you this week.
Hollywood Lesbian Scandal
Jodie and and new lover Cindi
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- technorati: lesbian, queer, jodie foster, tila tequila, bisexual
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06.01.08
Posted in Entertainment at 7:35 pm by Irene Oh
The love that dare not speak its name
“Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.”
Then sighing, said the other, “Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.”
– True Love, Lord Alfred Douglas
It was a historical moment. Wilde, a movie made in 1997 was banned in Singapore for ‘homosexual content’, and it has been passed without cut with a R21 rating this year.
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- technorati: wilde, gay, indignation, singapore
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05.26.08
Posted in Bisexuality, Entertainment at 2:31 pm by pleinelune
Drama drama drama. That’s what we have for you, this week. What’s new, right?
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- technorati: lesbian, queer, tila tequila, grey's anatomy, bisexual
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05.21.08
Posted in Feminism, Identity at 12:07 pm by Guest Writers
This article is written by our guest writer, Ho Chi Sam.
Image taken from aboutleap.com
The world is so much easily understood if we saw and believed in everything in binary opposites, and ideally, both ends/poles function in tandem, in contrast, interdependently, symbiotically, and eventually contribute to a whole, a stable system, a status quo.
Where does the woman stand in the world of binary opposites? For millennia, literature, rhetoric and discourses have by default refer to “humanity” as “man”, “humankind” as “mankind”, most random persons as “he” (Freudian slip any one?). This whole, stable system and status quo privileges a dominant kind – the male-oriented. It is gendered and sexed accordingly to toe the line of the androcentric, patriarchal and heterosexist establishment.
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rights,
sexual diversity,
sexual minorities,
woman,
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- About: Sam just likes to ask questions.
- technorati: glbt, lgbt, queer, lesbian, woman, androcentric, patriarchal, heterosexist, sexual diversity, heteronormality, fluidity, marginalise, sexual minorities, discrimination, dykes, rights
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