This month, we paint the town purple!
Join Dr. Vilashini Somiah and Rizal Rozhan as they discuss Dr. Vila's new book 'Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance'. Listen to stories of how migrant women found strength, courage and empowerment through the sea.
About the speakers
Dr. Vilashini Somiah (PhD, NUS) is a Sabah anthropologist at the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. Her work focuses on the underrepresented narratives of Bornean women, migrants, indigenes, and other sexual and gender minorities. She co-edited “Sabah From the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival (SIRD/ISEAS, 2021), and authored "Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Outside of academia, she writes on and speaks about the local socio-political landscape and oppressions.
Rizal Rozhan is a proud Sabahan from Penampang who yearns for more discussions on healthy positive masculinity in Malaysia. In 2018, he had the privilege of hosting a Men Act Tough (MAT) camp with selected male participants to unpack and find ways to address issues of hypermasculinity and how it affects gender equality in Malaysia. The group has since been repurposed as a support group for existing and external (new) members to navigate the hypermasculine world with each other as a support system. In his free time, you can find him jungle trekking in random forests, kayaking on the seas... or at least, he wishes to be.
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