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RUAS as a Women’s and Resistance Movement

How does Ruang Arsip & Sejarah Wanita (RUAS) position its identity as a laboratory of knowledge, a space for reflection, and a field of struggle through its archiving praxis?

Under The Banana Tree Regional Workshop: Strengthening Grassroots and Civil Archives in Southeast Asia

Building on the momentum of public-facing initiatives by the Under The Banana Tree (UTBT) Archival Network, there is a strategic need to collectively explore the archival praxis from Southeast Asia. With the broad themes of strengthening grassroots and civil archives in the region, the three days workshop (26 - 28 February 2026) comprised of presentations, archival showcase, inaugural zine distribution to public seminar which involved almost 40 local and international participants.

Under The Banana Tree Zine #1 – Archival Fragments

Deriving from assemblages of archival praxis from Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, the inaugural zine entitled 'Archival Fragments' locates multi-lingual illustrations, texts, printed materials, images, objects, a practical podcast-making process, to tools for collective learning in evoking the idea of archive as methodologies.

Imagined Malaysia: Compiling Histories, Reshaping Narratives

Imagined Malaysia democratises public history through inclusive and creative initiatives in challenging ethnonationalist narratives. By foregrounding layered histories of migration and marginalised voices, the organisation envision the idea of empowering Malaysians to critically reimagine the past together

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