Borneo's Voices & Stories
Calvin JemarangI write about Borneo’s tribal histories from the indigenous perspective — the stories, people, and events left out of colonial records and Malaysia’s official history.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 199 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Renaming the Unseen: How Colonial Mishearings Defined the Peoples of Sarawak
The Kelabit heartland of Bario, taken by my favorite local Youtuber Dennis Lat.
Naming is power—a power so innocuous that we rarely pay it any mind. Take Binatang, a town in Sarawak, for instance. Who remembers that name today? Every...
What Does It Mean When a Salong Becomes a Kelirieng?
These two photographs show one object, seventy-eight years apart. In 1948 it was a salong at Long Segaham, roofed, photographed by Edmund Leach. In 2026 it stands in Kuching with the chamber gone and the label reading Kelirieng.
Being sma...
Is This a Salong or a Klirieng?
The Contested Memory of Tipung Tului
Human Seed, Human Catastrophe
This diagram, generated by Google Gemini, visually captures the essay’s central theme: how a minor, well-intentioned administrative edit can fundamentally distort a people’s identity.
One Word, and Everything It Refuses to Mean
People...
3 a.m. and 120,000 Words
The Paper Cage: Colonial Archive & the Ironwood Title. Out on Amazon this December.
My first two books didn’t require me to argue with dead administrators. The second one was almost fun: myths, storytelling, voices that wanted to be hea...
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Writer from Sarawak, Malaysia—where the jungle is thick, the coffee is strong, and my daughter thinks sleep is optional.
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