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Kontinentalist
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What Rivers Remind Us Of— issue #66

Indigeneity teaches us memory, and like rivers, carries us back to the contested places we call home, their interconnections, and the responsibilities they demand.

Munirah Mansoor
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Crafting Air Pasang Surut

Making meaning with Orang Laut Singapore for Hari Orang Pulau.

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Kontinentalist
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The stories we tell of ourselves — issue #35

Writing stories as a child, I was always tempted to inhabit the bodies and worlds of others. My characters ate treacle pudding and scones with clotted cream, bursting through attics and chimneys, generally being up to no good in locales vastly different from my own. No surprise, as the books

Griselda Gabriele
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Qijin Tay

Qijin first joined as a web development intern before becoming a full-time member of Kontinentalist. We interviewed her twice, once in each…

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Wendy Wang Shijia, data viz designer, Tableau Public Ambassador and Visionary

Wendy Wang Shijia is a Shanghai-based data visualization designer, Tableau Public Ambassador and Tableau Visionary. Drawing on her decade…

Kontinentalist
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Of things that flow and connect— issue #34

How does our built infrastructure affect our lives and our identities? What do these indelible marks on our landscapes mean? These are some of the questions asked at a new exhibition opened by the Singapore Art Museum, titled Lonely Vectors, where a map of ours is on display. While I’

Mick Yang
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Angel Martinez

Angel interned with us in our editorial and marketing departments for six months. Ever bright and helpful, she’s contributed to many…

Siti Aishah
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How to make: The workshop-survey data story

(or how to amp up a data story with Flourish viz + some code)

Mick Yang
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Hui Min Chun, Web Developer intern

How did you find Kontinentalist? At a time when I was just searching for any sort of internship whether full time or part time — because I was still in school — I saw the job posting for a web development intern on my school’s job portal. I applied as I

Kontinentalist
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Stories of reclamation — issue #33

I think about this question a lot. Growing up in hyper-urban Singapore, we don’t so much think about land as we do country. Land is perceived by many states as a resource first, even though it encompasses and offers much more than that—a primordial and more holistic sense

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Keng, Data Editor at Pulitzer Center and Data Journalism trainer/consultant

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng studied chemical engineering as an undergraduate and worked as a journalist for Malaysiakini for 8 years before going…

Mick Yang
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Humans of Kontinentalist: Adhithi.M

Adhithi interned with us over six months, contributing diligently and invaluably to many projects, including: stories about Deepavali and…

Mick Yang
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Meet the Community! Ben Xiao, Data Scientist and Analyst

Ben Xiao is an aspiring data scientist and analyst, specialised in providing data-driven insights, having graduated with a Master’s degree…

Kontinentalist
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Human drivers of a changing planet — issue #32

Lately, we’ve been hearing the word “unprecedented” a lot. Unprecedented rate of temperature rise, unprecedented frequencies of natural disasters, unprecedented numbers of injuries and deaths. Our climate is changing, and each day we are reminded it’s not for the better. But hey—when “unprecedented” is used to describe