Delving into previously unpublished sources, Noelle paints the life of rickshaw pullers in the city of Zamboanga during the turn of the century.

An introductory reading, watching and looking list combating racism in Malaysia.

Nicole Ong takes a closer look at the album art produced by Koh Lee Meng, one of the first graphic designers in Malaysia. Through a study of his designs in the 70s and 80s, she tells a story about an emerging industry.

Artist Hoo Fan Chon presents a series of paintings and drawings by Wu Ma, a self-taught artist in Penang, Malaysia.

Examining a tranche of early 20th-century photographs of Malay women, O for Other critiques the layered histories behind the images, reckoning with their legacies.

Where does the creole stand in the construction of Malayness? Simon pays attention to spaces of encounter, enacting a counter-cartography.

This article is a parody of a 1994 Men’s Review article imagining the world in the year 2020. We extrapolate their logic in 2020, with its absurdities, impossibilities and the visions it telescopes.

In a wide-ranging survey of sources, Simon tells a story of how nature was implicated in the colonial project of making of the Malay archipelago.

Kendy introduces the belief systems and a sacred object, the rasang, of the Bidayuh community.

Artist Hoo Fan Chon explores the representational politics and history behind the aesthetics of his sampling of motifs and symbols of Georgetown.

Lay Sheng looks at how the child slave controversy in the early 20th century elucidated larger debates on hygienic modernity, gender propriety and endemic racism at the heart of empire.

Jin Tee reimagines the mythological creatures of nusantara as folktales for a contemporary audience.

Dennis introduces us to the original site of Merdeka Park and its transformations as new urban infrastructures were layered atop, through the lens of national history and change.