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We Are All Strangers (2026): A Cultivate Culture Review

We Are All Strangers follows one family through the messy, unplanned parts of caregiving and growing up.

Adoption: A Cultivate Commune (September) update 

Adoption helps children to find the loving families that they need. At our Commune on 26 September, we heard from social worker Wong Wei Lei from TOUCH Community Services and Jaryl Wee. Their heartfelt perspectives – both professional and personal – moved many of us in the room.

Dear You (2026): A Cultivate Culture Review

Dear You is a love letter to the efforts and complexities around caregiving. Though set in the past, caregiving today still asks of people's efforts and love all the same.

As Caregiving Needs Grow, Our Perspectives Should Grow Too 

Singapore is at a turning point. To sustain our society, we need to go beyond additional resources to a fundamental reframing: caregiving is not just a burden but an act of love.

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Cultivate Unpacks: Sex and Gender

Cultivate Unpacks is a series to unpack some of the current terms being used in social discourse today. In this piece, we look at “sex” and “gender”.

Social Media: “Burn” Someone, or Light the Way?

Imagine that you have a flaming torch in your hand. The fire at the end of the torch emits both heat and light. You can use this torch to set fire and burn someone or something, or you can use it to light a path in the darkness.

Is Identity Politics Always Bad?

There are two kinds of identity politics. “Common enemy” identity politics tends towards polarisation, division and conflict, while “common humanity” identity politics tends towards social harmony. We should have more of the latter, and less of the other.

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