This website presents the outcomes of a year-long interdisciplinary research collaboration recovering the suppressed stories of women artists, writers, and activists in Southeast Asian leftist and anti-colonial movements.
Across Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam, women who fought for independence, gender equality, and social justice through their creative work have been systematically erased from official histories — where their art was destroyed, their writings suppressed, and their stories silenced (or in Vietnam’s case, where women revolutionaries were celebrated as martyrs while their feminist critiques and the gendered exploitation they endured within the movement itself remain unexamined). This site presents the macro and micro histories of left-aligned women artists, writers and activists in Vietnam, Malaya, and Indonesia. Many of the sources recovered here have remained “in exile”: scattered across regional and international collections, unpublished, censored, or simply overlooked.
Site coming soon.