Beyond the Normalized Menstrual Stigma: Insights from Nepalese Women in Myanmar
by VK I vividly recall the moment I held a blood clot in my hand for the first time that had come out of my vagina. I was confused and a...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Jun 22
- 9 min
Nostalgia: A Diasporic Reimagination of Home
by Kathryn Aung and her family This essay is part of Aruna 2023 Publicly Engaged Fellowship Program. Kathryn is one of the 2023 fellows...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Nov 18, 2022
- 8 min
သွေးရင်းချာ / Close Relatives
by နွေဦးကံ့ကော် / Nwe Oo Kant Kaw This essay is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
Golden Flesh / Shout, Shouk, Lemon / Generational Marrow / Seasons
by Kimberly Zin (poetry) and Justin Lee (art) This poetry is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
နိုင်ငံ၊ မိသားစု နှင့် သင့်အနာဂတ်
by xYz This essay is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo Archive. ‘နိုင်ငံ’ နှင့်...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
86 ways I could use a knife (or, how I had seen a knife used, once).
by Niranjan This poetry is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo Archive. 86 ways I...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Mar 22, 2022
- 28 min
Internal Conflicts of Kachin Ethnicities
Full title: Internal Conflicts of Kachin Ethnicities: Identity Politics Among the Six Tribes of the Kachin Ethnic Group by B Seng (In...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Mar 16, 2022
- 18 min
Challenges for Ethnic Political Parties in Myanmar General Elections
Gay Gay, Je Mawk and Naw Kawthoolei Paw (In Burmese) By October 2019, a total of 94 political parties had registered for the 2020...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Mar 7, 2022
- 16 min
Perspectives of Bamar Majority Political Parties
Full title: Perspectives of Bamar Majority Political Parties on the Future Federation of Myanmar (In Burmese) By Chandra, PPK and Saoirse...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Reflections on identity, politics, and nation-building in Myanmar beyond the coup
Introduction (In Burmese) By Sauma The illegal military coup on February 1st, 2021 has durably disrupted the lives of more than 50...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Mar 1, 2022
- 17 min
National Identity in Myanmar
Full title: National Identity in Myanmar Understanding Bamar People’s Perspectives on Burmanization and Ethnocentrism (In Burmese) by...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Loneliness of Losing People to Political Violence
by Thu “I am having a headache. I don’t think I can drive anymore,” were the last words he said to my mom. It was then she realized he...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Feb 8, 2022
- 17 min
မမ်မိုရီ / Memory
မခြင်္သေ့ / Ma Chinthe (English translation by Nicole Tu-Maung; scroll below for translation) အခုတလော မိုးက မထင်ရင်မထင်သလို...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
Thrive / Cold
"I cannot even begin to express the waves of emotions I have felt over the past year. On days when I feel more suffocated than usual, I...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
အိမ်တစ်အိမ်ဆောက်တည်ခြင်း / How to build a home
by အဝေး / Away မြေဆိုတိုင်းအိမ်မဟုတ်ပါ မြင်သမျှဟာလှည့်ကွက်မျိုးစုံပရိယာယ်လိုတံလျှပ်လို အာဏာဆိုတဲ့အချုပ်ထဲမှာ တည်ငြိမ်မှုဆိုတာမျက်လှည့်လို...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Jun 26, 2021
- 11 min
ပစ်တိုင်းထောင် / Pyitinehtaung
မခြင်္သေ့ /Ma Chinthe (English translation & paintings by Nicole Tu-Maung; scroll below for translation) အုံးခနဲ ထလာတဲ့ အခိုးအငွေ့တွေကြား...
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arunaglobalsouth
- May 25, 2021
- 12 min
အိမ်ထဲကနွေဦး နှင့် အခြားပုံပြင်များ / Spring in the House and Other Stories
by Diana ဇော်ဝင်း (English Translation by Diana Zaw Win below) ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်သည်...
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arunaglobalsouth
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
Why ASEAN needs to take a stance regarding the political crisis in Myanmar
by Wai Thar A few days ago I was in an online discussion where people from different ASEAN countries were discussing about the ongoing...
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Chu May Paing
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
Talking Back to white* Researchers in Burma Studies (Conference Presentation)
We gave the presentation of our co-authored paper Talking Back to white Researchers in Burma Studies at the 20th International Graduate...
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