Category: Issues Under Tissues

• Stay Feminist and Study Your Body by Lay Sion Ng

  How well do you understand your body? Do you think your body can change your mind? Or it is only our minds that can change our bodies? Throughout history there have been many different definitions as to what constitutes our bodies. Some theorists of the social body regarded physical bodies as objects that need to…

  December 13, 2017

  Issues Under Tissues

  agency, agents, bodies, bodies that matter, body, cyborg, feminism, future, gender, human, hybrid, mind, mind and body, posthumanism, power, realism, self care, self love, the body, transhumanism

• Women and Space by Lay Sion Ng

  Whether it is defined as a container for things or the relation between things, the nature of space is often limned with the body-matter of women. Ever since Plato first introduced the existence of space and claimed the nature of space as the figure of the mother, women have become the body-matter for man (Plato…

  October 12, 2017

  Issues Under Tissues

  gender, labor, philosophy, space, the body, women

• Rethinking Relationships: Monogamy & Polyamory by Lay Sion Ng

  The modern Western culture is grounded on identity dualities: man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, white/black, virgin/whore, to name a few. These dualisms encourage a hierarchial structure between the former and the latter, which then enforces a sense of cultural, political and social inequality in our society. This sense of inequality is obvious when one looks into the structure…

  August 19, 2017

  Issues Under Tissues

  binary, duality, jealousy, monogamy, morality, polygamy, Western metaphysics