Poodien’s street stencil works are born from an awareness of racism, first sparked by the punk subculture which offered the alternative knowledge missing from public schools. He emphasizes that racism is not mere individual hatred, but a systemic and structural force deeply embedded in post-colonial laws and power frameworks. His...
Music subcultures and countercultures have always been scapegoated by politicians in Malaysia for political mileage since the early 1970s. The formula of conjuring mediated moral panics that puts the sole blame of Malaysian society’s ills on rock bands and rock culture has been so commonplace and successful that this trend...