Cover not available
Introduction published In:
Pink Dot: Discursive Formations, Constructions, and Contestations
Edited by Adi Saleem Bharat, Pavan Mano and Robert Phillips
[Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2] 2021
► pp. 97–104

Introduction

Pink Dot: Ten years on

| University of Michigan , USA
| King’s College London , UK
| Ball State University , USA
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Language and sexuality in Singapore
  • 3.The special issue
  • References


This article is available free of charge.

Published online: 16 July 2021
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00019.int
References

References

Boellstorff, Tom
2004a ‘Authentic, of course’: Gay language in Indonesia and cultures of belonging. In Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, William Leap & Tom Boellstorff (eds), 181–201. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.Google Scholar
2004b Playing back the nation: Waria, Indonesian transvestites. Cultural Anthropology 19(2): 159–195. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2005 The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Heng, Geraldine & Devan, Janadas
1995 The politics of nationalism, sexuality, and race in Singapore. In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, Aihwa Ong & Michael Peletz (eds), 195–215. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
The Independent
2019 PM Lee: Whatever your sexual orientation, you’re welcome to work in Singapore. [URL] (October 19 2020)
Lazar, Michelle M.
2017 Homonationalist discourse as a politics of pragmatic resistance in Singapore’s Pink Dot movement: Towards a southern praxis. Journal of Sociolinguistics 21(3): 420–441. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2020 Linguistic (homo)nationalism, legitimacies, and authenticities in Singapore’s Pink Dot discourse. World Englishes 39(4): 653–666. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Offord, Baden
1999 The burden of (homo)sexual identity in Singapore. Social Semiotics 9(3): 301–316. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Ng, Yi-Sheng
2017 Pride versus prudence: The precarious queer politics of Pink Dot. Inter- Asia Cultural Studies 18(2): 238–250. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Oswin, Natalie
2010 Sexual tensions in modernizing Singapore: The postcolonial and the intimate. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(1): 128–141. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2014 Queer time in global city Singapore: Neoliberal futures and the ‘freedom to love’. Sexualities 17(4): 412–433. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Peterson, David
2016 Homophobic grammar: The role of transitivity and phoricity in homophobic formation. Journal of Language and Sexuality 5(1): 61–93. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Phillips, Robert
2012 “Singaporean by birth, Singaporean by faith”: Queer Indians, internet technology, and the reconfiguration of sexual and national identity. In Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures, Audrey Yue & Jun Zubillaga-Pow (eds), 187–196. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2013 “We aren’t really that different”: Globe-hopping discourse and queer rights in Singapore. Journal of Language and Sexuality 2(1): 122–144. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2014 “And I am also gay”: Illiberal pragmatics, neoliberal homonormativity and LGBT activism in Singapore. Anthropologica 56(1): 45–54.Google Scholar
2020 Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Prankumar, Sujith Kumar, Aggleton, Peter & Bryant, Joanne
2021 Belonging, citizenship and ambivalence among young gay, bisexual and queer Indian Singaporean men. Asian Studies Review 45(1): 1–20. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2019 Mobility, immobility, and sexual transaction: Dirty socio-pragmatics in Cambodia. The 16th International Pragmatics Conference. Retrieved from [URL]
Tan, Chris K. K.
2015 Pink Dot: Cultural and sexual citizenship in gay Singapore. Anthropological Quarterly 88(4): 969–996. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2016 A ‘great affective divide’: How gay Singaporeans overcome their double alienation. Anthropological Forum 26(1): 17–36. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Tang, Shawna
2012 Transnational lesbian identities: Lessons from Singapore? In Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures, Audrey Yue & Jun Zubillaga-Pow (eds), 83–96. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2016 Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore: Re-thinking Global Sexualities. New York: Taylor & Francis. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Tang, Shawna & Quah, Sharon E. L.
2018 Heteronormativity and sexuality politics in Singapore: The female-headed households of divorced and lesbian mothers. Journal of Sociology 54(4): 647–664. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Yue, Audrey
2007 Creative queer Singapore: The illiberal pragmatics of cultural production. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review 3(3): 149–160.Google Scholar
Cited by

Cited by 1 other publications

Pak, Vincent
2023. Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore. Journal of Sociolinguistics 27:1 ► pp. 24 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 20 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.