Lynette Chua is an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and Head of Studies for Law and Liberal Arts at Yale-NUS College. A scholar of Law and Society, she has researched human rights movements in Singapore and Myanmar and is currently working on a study of “filial piety” laws in Asia.

In this episode: Lynette’s non-linear academic trajectory; “pragmatic resistance” and Singapore’s LGBT rights movement; the role of emotions in human rights practice; conducting fieldwork as an “outsider’ in Myanmar; the “Lynette Chua” model; the relationship between academia and activism.

“I just do what I feel is important and what I like to do…if you think too much about fear you just kind of become paralyzed.”