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Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missing Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missing Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ere-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdvance Praise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I’ve been a sex worker since 2011, and even I found my eyes opened reading this collection. The stories, vignettes, and poems within feel like whispers of secrets, fragments of dreams, or the kind of raw, unfiltered honesty you only get from a deep chat with an old friend. Through the voices of Singapore’s sex workers, this remarkable anthology reveals the incredible diversity of joy, rage, hope, and humanity that exists in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToo often, others try to tell our stories for us — flattening them into stereotypes or sensationalised clichés. But this collection refuses to let those distant assumptions speak. These are our stories, told in our voices, with all the complexity and richness of lived experience. Reading it was deeply moving, at times heartbreaking, and profoundly real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a rare privilege to see the world through these eyes — to be reminded of the shared, challenging, and beautiful gift of life in all its forms. I am honoured to recommend this work. It is vital, human, and, above all, true.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEVA OH, also known as 'Mistress Eva' — award winning International Dominatrix\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An inter-generational, inter-genre, and inter-spatial exploration of the lives of sex workers and their labour conditions in Singapore. Exciting, intimate, endearing, vengeful, repressed, and cathartic all at once,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missing Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereflects the sweeping diversity of sex workers' experiences, motivations, and lives. From the streets of 80s red light districts in Singapore, the online chat rooms of the aughts, and the transgressive imagination of the empowered millennial, the anthology is a landmark publication that stabs a stiletto heel against the singular story and image of a deliberately misunderstood labour class. The stories of sex workers strain against a society’s ability or inability to accept its own desires and the people who work to fulfil them. This book is as necessary a reading as any about the nation, for behind these stories, the country finds an unwritten one of its own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDIANA RAHIM — visual artist, writer, community worker and editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond The Hijab\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVanessa Ho (she\/they)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ejoined Project X in 2011 and became its executive director in 2019. Her tenure at Project X has provided her many valuable opportunities to meet and connect with sex workers in Singapore and around the world. She has also written and spoken extensively about sex work, human trafficking, rape culture, and LGBTQ rights in Singapore. Vanessa holds the view that if people can speak about sex, gender, and sexuality in open and in non-judgmental ways, society will become a safer place for everyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaksha Mahtani (they\/them)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a researcher-writer-facilitator and vice-president on the board of Project X. Notable contributions include working on the organisation's membership model, the voluntary industry exit programme, and report writing. Their master’s thesis research examines labour market hierarchies in Singapore’s sex industry, with research interests that nestle at the intersections of social inequality, friendship, migration, feminism, and multiracialism. Raksha has been published in rivulet 10 and Exhale, and has also performed spoken word as part of Sekaliwags and Mass Hysteria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003enor (they\/them)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis the Programmes Manager at Project X. Their favourite part of working at Project X is being able to experience the generosity shown by sex workers in telling their stories. 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There are events in Hui’s past that have great significance for the person she’s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? Who is the little girl she talks to? And who is Hui herself? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking, unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through to recover memories lost to complex PTSD and, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A unique memoir that constantly undermines and reworks itself as it braids together episodes from the author's life, a destabilising approach that calls into question how accurately we can remember the past while we are still processing it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Tiang, writer and translator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis nothing short of an immense privilege. Shze-Hui Tjoa writes with her heart on her sleeve and the sanctity of her soul risked on every page. I wish every writer could pay testament to life—and our tricky relationship to the writing of life—the way she has done so earnestly, thoughtfully and playfully here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaryl Qilin Yam, writer, editor and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBe Your Own Bae\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShze-Hui Tjoa has written a book that understands that stories are built out of erasure and silence, but they are also made from a relentless belief in transformation. To tell the story, again. And maybe this time, we might finally reveal what is hidden, even from ourselves. What a beautiful, brave act this book is of reclaiming, forgiving but also of un-naming. Sometimes stories teach us to say yes. This one reminds me we can also say No.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Ypil, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Experiment of the Tropics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Story Game\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis a truly inventive memoir told in the form of autobiographical essays that ask what it means to be political in body and mind while aspiring to always be more than we are. Nothing is as it seems in this memoir that’s both reflexive and reflective, and Shze-Hui Tjoa’s careful excavation of disembodiment’s nature knits together the very mind-body separation her memoir interrogates in a journey of healing that will have the reader questioning the narratives we cling to in order to survive. What emerges is an act of courage, confrontation, and intimacy rendered in beautiful, lucid prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJemimah Wei, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Original Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.faction.press\/shze-hui-tjoa-bio\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eShze-Hui Tjoa\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a Singaporean writer who lives in Edinburgh, UK. Her debut,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story Game\u003c\/em\u003e, was named a best nonfiction book of 2024 by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaste Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhen it was first published in the US and Canada. Shze-Hui is an editor at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdi Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has received support from arts organisations in the US, Portugal, Singapore, and Morocco. You can read her author interviews and find out more about her creative philosophy via her website,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tjoashzehui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.tjoashzehui.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faction Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46651695562978,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0116\/2883\/8978\/files\/TheStoryGame.jpg?v=1750755214"},{"product_id":"signals-in-the-noise","title":"Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World◎Ooi Kee Beng","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMalaysia is no easy country to analyse, or even to understand. 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A masterful storyteller and podcaster, he proves that the past can loom larger than the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilk, Silver, Spices, Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mangubat appears, more than anything, deeply invested in cultivating a joyful exploration of the country’s past.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mekongreview.com\/lost-and-found\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMekong Review\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Mangubat links past and present, knows a good character when he sees one, and writes engagingly .... Short-story collections are often a prelude for something longer: perhaps Mangubat can be the one to write a Filipino history that resonates with a wider English-speaking public.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilk, Silver, Spices, Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis proof that there’s more than enough material.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/asianreviewofbooks.com\/content\/silk-silver-spices-slaves-lost-tales-from-the-philippine-colonial-period-1565-1946-by-lio-mangubat\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"We are, all of us, made of stories, Mangubat reminds us. Our families’ and individual lives’ tales are irremovable from the tidal wave of local and global stories. No story is too small, no person too inconsequential, as we all have parts to play in the never-ending drama of nation building.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/exlibrisphilippines.com\/2024\/08\/04\/local-yet-global-a-fun-book-on-forgotten-tales-from-philippine-colonial-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEx Libris Philippines\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"For all intents and purposes, every chapter of \u003cem\u003eSilk, Silver, Spices, Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterclass in RRL (Review of Related Literature)-writing, with Mangubat normalizing the practice for an enriched hold of history.While we see the same technique in the succeeding chapters, every page always surprises us as the author turns something we already know into its head and digs deep into the recesses of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.esquiremag.ph\/culture\/books-and-art\/silk-silver-spices-slaves-by-lio-mangubat-about-the-book-a3690-20240909-lfrm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeueW01-65Medi, HelveticaNeueW02-65Medi, HelveticaNeueW10-65Medi, sans-serif;\"\u003eEsquire Philippines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Philippine history is bursting at the seams with politics, intrigue, and  momentous events. 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Author Lio Mangubat's podcast-turned-book\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eSilk, Silver, Spices, Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e mines these many cross-cultural meetings and engagements to make unraveling the archipelago's past one entertaining ride.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.spot.ph\/arts-culture\/the-latest-arts-culture\/109885\/silk-silver-spices-slaves-book-details-launch-a4373-20240829?s=rimcbodnkvfi27cjdpp41t39ke\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSPOT.ph\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSilk, Silver, Spices, Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etackles a wide range of topics, some peculiar and others a marvel to ponder.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bworldonline.com\/arts-and-leisure\/2024\/09\/04\/617856\/an-interesting-spin-on-philippine-colonial-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBusinessWorld\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.faction.press\/lio-mangubat-author-bio\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLio Mangubat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis the creator of Philippine history podcast\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6Sou2NMNV1evPp7FDZ1Ezs\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Colonial Dept.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which features long-lost stories from the country's past under Spanish, British, American, and Japanese rule. 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