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Singapore’s sex workers tell their own stories in new literary anthology
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The Missing Anthology: Stories From Singapore's Sex Workers was put together by co-editors Vanessa Ho (left), Raksha Mahtani (right) and nor, who is not in the photograph.
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SINGAPORE – A professional femme fatale who sees her career in solving economic inequality. A transgender woman leaves for Malaysia after national service and finds her community on the streets. A magical realist play in which two “chickens” spill secrets into a condom.
Sex workers are used to others telling their stories – from director Sean Baker’s Academy Award-winning film Anora (2024) to the latest report on another police raid in Geylang. But a new literary anthology which puts the pen in their hands has thrown up a clutch of dreams, ideas, philosophies and fantasies – some violent, others funny.
