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Gender

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

An excerpt from Elena Shih’s probing book

April 18, 2023 • by Elena Shih

Commercial sex in Bangkok, broadcast through tourist networks, now links the city in many minds with human trafficking—following the global tendency to conflate all sex commerce with sex trafficking. ...

A Fragile Hope for Democracy in Thailand

An election in May has put the Thai King, the government, and the constitution under pressure. But can the opposition win?

March 29, 2023 • by Tobias Lentz

The May election will be a pivotal moment for Thailand’s democratic future....

Left on a Mountain to Die

An excerpt from Under the Naga Tail: The escape from the Cambodian Genocide

March 22, 2023 • by James Taing and Mae Bunseng Taing

An excerpt of Under the Naga Tail, the memoir of a refugee who escaped the Killing Fields in Cambodia....

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