Max Pasakorn (he/she/they)

Hi! I'm a Thai-born, Singapore-based writer, poet and spoken word artist, pursuing a BA in Arts & Humanities (Creative Writing) at Yale-NUS College. My work revolves around queerness, specifically gender expression, queer joy and queer ecology.

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Singapore, Singapore

Selected work (4 publications)

Tigers Zine, 2022

Mother Talks to 11-Year-Old Self at Bedok Hawker CentreI’m too old to learn a new language. Flavours will do just fine. We got a gold star from some association, but no picture. Opposite, there’s a chicken rice stall that has somehow been endorsed by Lee Hsien Loong.

poetry

flash

Middleground Magazine, 2022

Konwohrachet, Pasakorn, MaxOur names live vicariously through us. Wohrachet means to be a good person. Kon makes it masculine. To the Thai people, the name is a fresh set of clothes.

creative nonfiction

prose poetry

Fifth Wheel Press

On Learning to Live with Puppet StringsDo your nipples think they are in some long-distance relationship? Yes, and—

poetry

Fifth Wheel Press

Guide to Finding an Infinite Number of Selves7. You must dance when the song comes on. Make your boobs jiggle so hard everyone thinks you’re a mixologist.

poetry

Links

On Hybridity - A Letter from Ethos BooksA short letter that serves as my introduction to Ethos Books' mailing list subscribers, discussing the expansive potential of writing in hybrid forms and the hybrid lens.

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