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I hope to age as well as Lena Lim. She's so elegant, sartorially as well as in turn of mind. As for ex-president and wife of our once well known social and political activist (BTW, why aren't we mentioning her name?!), I hear she's heading various quasi-government bodies. Dunno which.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJ4JmqSgnk Part 2, on sex education programme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuMwbSr4HOE&feature=related Part 3, on giving men voting rights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwC3-sqS0JQ&feature=related

Haha, of course, you're right! Didn't think of it that way. Also, why she can be feminist mentor, I suppose!

These women are really plain stupid. They contradict themselves all over the place--like saying AWARE is too diverse, one day, and another day, saying they are a single-issue organisation. Then this Lois Ng says Thio Su Mien cannot be president of AWARE cos she's too atas for an organisation...

At the press conference yesterday, AWARE older members fronted the person who had designed the programme. Can't remember her name. She was a psychologist, and she spoke of how she had been selected by AWARE. She said she had been rigorously questioned by the AWARE leadership on her approach and...

Just wanted to add to Yawning Bread's fabulous post on their motives. Why did Thio Su Mien decide to reveal her hand? She revealed her hand on the same day that her email correspondence to church members was posted up on Straits Times' STOMP webpage. But about four or five days before this...

Police should explore all angles in investigating these death threats. Including looking at whether they sent it to themselves. After all, who else benefitted from the threats but themselves. They can now be seen as victims, as martyrs, earning huge public sympathy. Also, the so-called death...

Hee, hee, in this "feminist mentor"'s world, everything is a man's issue. Let's call her by her real name--patriarchal woman mentor.

Yes, that is what AWARE is, at best gay-non-discriminatory. Hopefully, Sayoni will testify to this. As for why they would insist AWARE is carrying out gay activism, they are scared of gay sexuality--plain and simple. Their fear of it makes them see it everywhere they go. Also, this is about...

No, there's nothing wrong with Christian women joining AWARE on their own accord. But joining on others' urging is a different matter. A sudden influx of Christian women turning up at the EGM is unlikely unless church machinery is used (like pastors speaking in church, emails being sent out...

Yes, we might see a sudden large influx of Christian women members at the EOGM. Would that constitute evidence that the evangelical Church is involved in supporting the new exco?

Great post! I think the 'corporation' approach can also be used as the alibi for cutting certain services that don't meet with their pro-family agenda--for eg, sex education provided to schools that go beyond preaching abstinence to talking about safe sex and contraceptives and which recognize...

Saw this in AWARE Facebook Group: Inspired by the 1984 seminar “Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives” where a panel of women spoke to an audience of about fifty people, a few good women got together and started AWARE. Thanks to the solid, consistent pursuit of AWARE’s vision for gender equality and...

This is not the same sort of situation. AWARE leadership has been continuously changing over the years. Constance may not be young but she hadn't been in the AWARE exco for more than a decade since she was first its president. She took over for two years recently only because it is difficult for...

From TODAY ONLINE Why she quit Ms Claire Nazar told Today, it became clear after the exco’s first meeting that they “were not going to follow my direction”. “The exco and I didn’t see eye to eye. It was unfortunate. It was pointless for me to carry on as I didn’t want to waste time in...

Why do you say the membership has dwindled to 250? It was over 500 a few days ago, and I haven't heard of people resigning from AWARE--merely that some have resigned from the exco. Yeah, it's interesting that old guard nominated 6 in the exco. They had better explain that. What do you...

THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 Sacked by a terse e-mail THERE was no phone call, no reason given, and no thank you. All Ms Braema Mathi, 51, received was a terse e-mail on Thursday telling her she was no longer chairman of Aware's Cedaw Committee. She was told she was no longer in charge...

THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 OLD GUARD'S RESPONSE 'Why the need to muscle your way into the executive committee' The 160 Aware members who have called for an extraordinary general meeting yesterday issued this response to the statement by new president Josie Lau: WE ARE astonished that the...

THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 NEW GUARD'S RESPONSE We're ready for the task, but why are some so angry with us? New president Josie Lau issued this letter to the media yesterday I REFER to the report, 'Unknowns knock out veterans at Aware polls' (The Straits Times, April 10) and various...

THE STRAITS TIMES April 18, 2009 Some attend the same church EVEN as the Aware saga continues to unfold, it appears that some of the newcomers in its leadership are familiar faces at the Anglican Church Of Our Saviour at Margaret Drive. Aside from new Aware president Josie Lau and her husband...