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👋🏼 mag (she/her)
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hi there! welcome to my little corner of the internet ☺ this website was supposed to just be a professional catch-all as an aspiring academic (which it still is!), but that’s boring. so keep scrolling and clicking on different links to explore even more! I used to spend hours on the ‘old’ internet as a kid, reading and admiring the design elements of others’ blogspots, tumblrs, and yahoo sites. so I hope this space will spark the same joy for you. I’ll briefly explain what each section of my site houses here ➡
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about me
Hey there! I’m mag (not meg) 🙂, a 27-year-old queer (let’s go lesbians let’s go) + autistic aspiring researcher, who just graduated with a first-class honours degree in psychology - an achievement I’m very proud of as a burnt out first-gen mature student who moved all the way to the UK from Singapore for this!
Of all my endless passions and hobbies, social justice, decolonisation and collective liberation are the most central and important to me, i.e., they form the core praxis of my work, and I align myself most closely to being a liberationist.
As a ‘quiet queer’ (great video essay on this here) that is in a constant internalising crisis over her intersecting identities, I reflexively express my vision for the world through research and online activism. The fact that I am more often a fly on the wall doesn’t diminish the rage and anguish I have for the systemic oppression of colonised peoples and other non-normative identities. Besides, knowledge has the power to either liberate or oppress, and it feels more urgent than ever to challenge present-day epistemics, to broaden the voices we spotlight in research, to centre lived experience. So yeah, social, liberation/decolonial, critical and narrative psychology are my key research interests.
Aligning with this, my final year dissertation investigated the role that specific narratives (i.e., ‘The Singapore Story’) play in Singaporeans’ attitudes towards social change and willingness to engage in collective action. I’m hoping to craft an extension of this and dive deeper into narratives, social representations, and collective action for my PhD!
Evidently, I’m not the best at being succinct with my words. To break up the word clutter, here’s a visual collage of all my other interests - 
why a personal website?
If you too are a video essay connoisseur, you may have come across this youtube video on the right. As I’m about to complain about algorithms, I also thank them for finding this and motivating me to bring my creativity online.
I’ve always wanted to share my work and my art but I could never pinpoint why I felt so much inertia around doing so.
I always brushed off that inertia by saying that I simply fear being perceived. I mean, I really do, and I realised that so much of this fear is intertwined with how social media algorithms dictate what everyone wants to see/judge, or the type of content that would bring you closer/further away from finding community. Interacting with algorithms evokes such a strong feeling of being hyper-perceived and at the same time, like as if I’m talking to a wall.
So in response, this is me reclaiming my own corner of the world wide web, just like the “good ol’ days”. Instead of mindlessly scrolling, I want to:
Repair my relationship with knowledge and media consumption - where I consume not solely for output or to curb boredom, but because I allow myself to be enthralled by this wacky hellish universe (please watch this video essay)
Find community and not trap myself in obligate sociality with people you only know by circumstance (or that one allistic person that thought you were cool for the five minutes you talked to them so they asked for your instagram handle)
Reignite the joy I had in web design and the indie web! I used to spend all my free time designing and writing a blog, learning CSS and HTML when I was 11 just so I could add a custom cursor and glittery GIFs, and let’s not forget customisable profiles on MySpace?!
Fight tech fascism - While traditional social media has integrally shaped my values (and will continue to do so), I feel like we have handed over too much of our power to them. From our personal data, to the censorship of resistance and dubious AI/military intelligence investments, I think we desperately need alternative spaces of community.
tldr; the points covered in this video -
and pure nostalgia -
and if you’d like to have a really long think about how the internet today has ruined us:
While it takes much more time and effort (case in point - I haven’t updated this space for nearly a year), doing this makes me feel safe and excited to express myself on the internet. While my goal isn’t really to get engagement, coolER people, like you reading this, however little or many, will eventually find their way here anyway. I’m staying here to beat the ‘dead internet theory’ allegations!
current favs
music 🎧
last update: October 2025
The Clearing - Wolf Alice
Double Infinity - Big Thief
