Essays, Activism, Organising
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2025
The Sea Is Whose?: Ethnic Entanglements in Southeast Asian SFF, Speculative Insight, 1 February 2025
Collective Statement from Singapore's Literary Community on AI, Ng’s Substack, 7 January 2025.
2024
Unharvested: The Forgotten Sci-Fi Legacy of Stella Kon, The Sengkang Sci-Fi Quarterly, Issue 1, 26 August 2024.
Matriarchal Swordtail, Waves Rising: Collected Works of Ho Poh Fun & Responses, Pagesetters, 2024.
#YISHREADS, Suspect, January-December 2024 (monthly book review column).
2023
“Walking Tours Through Lost Singapore: Haunted Paths” A Critique by Ng Yi-Sheng, BukitBrown.com, 31 Dec 2023.
Maiden Lim and Her Sisters: Taoist Folk Goddesses of Singapore, BiblioAsia, Vol 18, Issue 4: Jan-Mar 2023.
#YISHREADS, Suspect, January-December 2023 (monthly book review column).
2022
NSFW: Not the Singapore Writers Festival, 5-19 November 2022, publicity here, coverage here and here.
Barely Legal: How We Got to Repeal, and Where We Go Now, Jom, 26 August 2022.
#YISHREADS, Suspect, March-December 2022 (monthly book review column).
The Trouble with Tribal — The Discomforts of Identity Politics in Singapore, Rice Media, 6 January 2022
2021
Painted Shadows: a Queer Haunting of the National Gallery, ASEAN Queer Imaginings: Collection of Writings by LGBTIQ Thinkers, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus.
From Myanmar to Singapore, Why LGBTQ+ People Came Out to Protest, Queer Lapis.
Raffles Displaced, BiblioAsia Vol 16: Jan-Mar 2021.
2020
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, A Public Square, the Substation.
On Plague and Public Living, A Public Square, the Substation.
Sex and the Circuit Broken City, A Public Square, the Substation.
2019
Raffles Restitution: Artistic Responses to Singapore's 1819 Colonisation, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 50: Issue 4.
What the **** happened to Singapore’s Public Square?, A Public Square, the Substation.
Plaza | Singapura (or How to Stop Worrying and Love the Mall), A Public Square, the Substation.
National Lib, A Public Square, the Substation.
2018
Jogging the Memory: A Singapore Writer in Yogyakarta, Moving Worlds Volume 18 Number 2: Postcolonial Cities - Southeast Asia.
2017
A History of Singapore Horror, BiblioAsia Vol 13: Jul-Sep 2017.
Pride versus Prudence: the Precarious Queer Politics of Pink Dot, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 18, 2017: Issue 2.
A Compromising Position, Overland 227.