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Margins & Mirrors: Unofficial Singapore Channel: Between the Lines What if the stories that define a place aren’t the ones written on plaques — but the ones whispered in side streets, scrawled on cardboard signs, or half-lost in translation? In this 5-part series, we examine Singapore through a translator’s lens — not the polished English of brochures, but the messy, multilingual margins where meaning resists control. From endangered dialects to untranslated signage, from Singlish poetry to unrecorded oral histories, we explore how language shapes power, identity, and who gets to tell the national story. Each episode dives into the often invisible decisions behind translation and curation: What is included? What is left out? And what happens when voices on the edge start to mirror the truth more clearly than the official script? 🎥 Episodes explore: • The aesthetics of harmony — and the price of narrative smoothness • The silencing effects of language policy and ethnic categorization (CMIO) • Singlish as rhythm, resistance, and literary voice • How signage and censorship work together to erase or reveal • Oral storytelling and independent publishing as acts of cultural survival Margins & Mirrors is for anyone who has ever read between the lines — and wondered what got left behind.
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