Reading Red Beyond Borders: Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology

Working Guys is a collection of stories by transmasculine sex workers that take readers through different moments in their lives.    The stories intersect between a few central themes, such as perceptions, media representation, and violence inflicted on trans sex workers. These nudge us to look at support systems and systematic changes required to address […]

Project X Chinese New Year Feature – Joanna

  “When you have to stand up for yourself, you do it” Joanna’s story: Reflections about Chinese New Year, family, and ushering in the new year meaningfully Chinese New Year marks one of the few times a year where friends and family gather to celebrate against the backdrop of an all-around vibrant and cheery atmosphere. […]

Reading Red Beyond Borders: Beauty Is A Wound

  Synopsis Penned by Indonesian writer and screenwriter Eka Kurniawan, Beauty is a Wound (2002) centres around the life of half Dutch half Indonesian sex worker Dewi Ayu and her descendants in the fictional town of Halimunda. Kurniawan combines folklore, wit and graphic imagery to spin a captivating tale of Indonesia’s history, drawing significant parallels […]

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 2024

This International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we’d like to address another kind of violence that has become far more prominent today. Just two weeks ago, the Straits Times released an article about hair salons in Geylang that heavily implicated the sex worker community.  Besides the journalist’s approach to reporting which we have […]

Film Review: Mee Pok Man (1995) by Eric Khoo

    Mee Pok Man (The Legacy That Needs to End Now) CW: Sex, Necrophilia, Death, Corpses, Some Physical Violence and MASSIVE SPOILERS Eric Khoo’s Mee Pok Man is widely heralded to be the spark for Singapore’s revival in filmmaking.  It has garnered foreign acclaim for showing a grittier side of Singapore, often conveniently censored. […]

Film Review: A Yellow Bird (2016) by K Rajagopal

CW: Sex, Coercion and Sexual Assault, Some Physical Violence  A Yellow Bird (2016) is a searingly realistic portrayal of how it feels to live on the fringes of society. The film follows Siva Sudhakar, a Singaporean man who has just been released from prison. Depicted as an anti-hero, he is reactive and relentless in his […]

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Kheng Leng

Social Worker | [email protected]

Social Worker
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Kheng Leng is a Registered Social Worker with the Singapore Association of Social Workers. Prior to joining Project X, she worked extensively with youths-at-risk and on issues of intergenerational poverty in Singapore. She is experienced in pioneering innovative social services such as setting up a Collective Impact initiative to support the lower-income families at Spoooner Road and operationalising the first boarding campus for lower-income families at Spooner Road and operationalising the first boarding campus for lower-income youths at =Dreams.

Kheng Leng firmly believes that every person deserves to live their potential. She hopes to develop the social work services at Project X and provide our community with right resources and opportunities at whatever stage of their lives.

Kheng Leng holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Highest Distinction) from the National University of Singapore.

Vanessa Ho

Executive Director | [email protected]

Executive Director
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Vanessa has been full-time with Project X since 2011, and as a result, has had many opportunities to meet and connect with sex workers in Singapore and around the world. Under her leadership, the organisation has grown from a small group of volunteers to one where there are three paid staff and a team of over 60 volunteers. Correspondingly, she has increased the annual operating budget of the organization five times, and is now recognized as the leading organization that empowers and assists women in the sex industry.

Vanessa has written and spoken extensively about sex work, human trafficking, rape culture, and LGBTQ rights in Singapore. She believes that if people can speak about sex, gender and sexuality in open and in non-judgmental ways, society will become a safer place for everyone.

Vanessa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Warwick, and a Masters Degree in Gender, Society and Representation from University College London.