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Mabel Ho: “I still flirt with the idea of leaving. But that dream plays to a different tune now.”
Guest essay: After years imagining what her exit plan would look like, A Malaysian finally comes to terms with her choice to remain.
Emily Ding
Mar 20
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Out on my own again
It's been a while since, and it took me just a bit of time to feel like my old self.
Emily Ding
Nov 1, 2022
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Landmarkings, vol. 8.2
Annotations on how we make sense of the world and tell its stories.
Emily Ding
Nov 24, 2021
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Landmarkings, vol. 7.2
Annotations on how we make sense of the world and tell its stories.
Emily Ding
Sep 30, 2021
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A woman out in the world
What I've learnt from more than a decade exploring the world on my own, and what it means to me.
Emily Ding
Mar 25, 2021
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Kaori Fujimoto: What we give when we give money to the dead
Guest essay: A Japanese essayist on negotiating deep-rooted traditions and her own wayward path, and how this shaped her relationship with her father.
Emily Ding
Dec 12, 2021
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Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
Emily Ding
Jul 5, 2022
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Landmarkings, vol. 6.2
Annotations on how we make sense of the world and tell its stories.
Emily Ding
Aug 27, 2021
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Wael Qarssifi: "Everyone saying what they think, out of love, is an act of activism"
Q&A: A Syrian refugee journalist in Malaysia on piecing together a life for himself in exile in Kuala Lumpur, and reconciling his feelings for his…
Emily Ding
Jul 15, 2022
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Meeting the year ahead
No real resolutions, as usual, but I'm hoping to reframe my perspective with a little help from writers and artists who have echoed my desires.
Emily Ding
Jan 8
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From the Munich-Berlin overnight train
On slow travelling, being alone in unfamiliar places, and talking (or not talking) to strangers.
Emily Ding
Sep 30, 2019
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Elizabeth Wong: "I had begun with an image of fishermen hauling their nets out of the sea"
Guest essay + Q&A: A novelist on how a trip with her mother to a fishing village—and the complicated feelings it surfaced about privilege …
Emily Ding
Aug 7, 2021
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