Kodrah Kristang is a multiethnic, intergenerational non-profit initiative that seeks to peacefully and non-violently revitalise the critically endangered Kristang language, culture, identity and way of being, and since 2022 has been the primary hub and focus of all future-oriented Kristang revitalisation material for all Kristang people across the world. We therefore operate within the norms and values of contemporary cosmopolitan, multiracial and multireligious Singapore society, where the initiative is based, and apply these to our interactions with all people from anywhere in the world. We do not sanction any sort of conduct that:
- involves any form of psychoemotional projection or abuse, especially to perpetuate the hegemonic control of an abusive institution, organisation or agency on the Kristang or the current, prior living or future living Kabesa, and especially via the use of intermittent reinforcement;
- involves any form of spying, espionage or deceit to perpetuate the hegemonic control of an abusive institution, organisation or agency on the Kristang or the current, prior living or future living Kabesa
- seeks to entice, manipulate, deceive or lure the Kristang community and/or the current, prior living or future living Kabesa into dialogue with or the hegemonic control of an abusive institution, organisation or agency, and/or to entice, manipulate, deceive or lure the Kabesa into being co-opted into formal politics or being forced to hold any form of formal political power against their will, values and interests, and against the will, values and interests of the entire Kristang community worldwide;
- threatens violence, physical harm, death or disease to anyone;
- incites fear, strife and division within Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- incites fear, strife and division within the Kristang community in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- incites fear, strife and division within the Kristang community at-large, whether in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur any other city or location with a significant Kristang population, or across the world;
- insults or calls into question a person’s dignity of being;
- insults or unjustifiably calls into question a person’s connection to the Kristang community and/or identity;
- insults or unjustifiably calls into question a person’s personal history with the Kristang language in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- insults or unjustifiably calls into question a person’s right to learn Kristang in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- seeks to bully, harass or abuse the Kristang community in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- seeks to bully, harass or abuse a person learning Kristang in Singapore, Melaka, Perth, Kuala Lumpur or any other city or location with a significant Kristang population;
- contains slurs, racist remarks, homophobic remarks, ableist remarks, sexist remarks, or personal attacks that seek to provoke and degrade, especially remarks that covertly or overtly call into question the legitimacy, validity, worth and/or dignity of both heterosexual and queer / homosexual Kristang families, heterosexual and queer / homosexual Kristang cultural practices, neurotypical and neurodiverse Kristang cultural practices and ways of thinking and relating to one another, and the Kristang community’s commitment to human individuation and positive psychoemotional development, to the negotiation and/or obliteration of all forms of intergenerational trauma, to restorative justice and Novakoroza or Reconciliation, and to respecting, appreciating, embracing and protecting the polynomic diversity and plurality of what it means to be Kristang and to be human
- insults, calls into question or disrespects any of the fundamental elements of the revitalised form of Kristang, including and especially the Osura Krismatra or Uncertainty Thinking, the concept and products of dreamfishing, the initiative’s queer- and neurodivergent-friendly elements, the Roda Mundansa, magnaarchetypes and the occluded history of Kristang itself, the differentiation of the Kristang creole/Indigenous ethnicity and the religion of Christianity, the terminology used to refer to the Kristang community, and the leadership of the entire Kristang community vested in the role of the Kabesa;
- attempts to support the recolonisation or reversion any part of the Kristang community or identity back to any form of colonised status or hegemonic control, including purposefully conflating the Kristang language with the Portuguese language, purposefully conflating the Kristang culture with contemporary Portuguese culture, and/or purposefully conflating the Kristang identity with contemporary Portuguese identity, such that as the distinct nature of Kristang language, culture and identity is instead subsumed and occluded under Portuguese.
We enforce our policy on conduct by reserving the right to immediately end contact with, immediately block and/or refuse to further engage with any individuals, parties or organisations within or outside of Singapore who engage in any behavior listed above, as well as behavior that may fall outside of the scope of the above but is deemed to be abusive, harmful, demeaning and/or unnecessarily belligerent. Individuals, parties and organisations who continue to engage in such behavior within the Republic of Singapore will be reported to the relevant authorities in Singapore for further consideration and action, as well as to the community at large where necessary, especially if an authority figure itself is engaging in such behavior. Inbound communication such as email messages or unsolicited texts that are deemed as covertly attempting to achieve or enact any of the forms of conduct above will also not be replied to and will be marked as spam.
Temporary public occlusion of the names and identities of the five living future Kabesa anticipated to succeed Kevin starting from 2075
Since Monday, 18 August 2025 20:40 SGT, the names and identities of the five living future Kabesa—the anticipated 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Kabesa, who are all not Kabesa yet but have been identified as very likely to succeed Kevin starting from 2075—have been publicly withheld and occluded on all public-facing Kodrah Kristang material, following the direct request of the 16th Kabesa to Kevin as the 13th Kabesa for this to occur for themselves. No information about any part of the names or identifiable visual references of these five future Kabesa should therefore be made publicly or permanently visible in any way by any individual outside of the Kristang eleidi in any non-Kodrah or non-Kristang community-facing context, including through any public use of the Katrakronomatra or Xamang-Krismatrang dreamfishing cards, until such time as each of the five living future Kabesa have made it directly known to Kevin that they wish for their names or visual depictions to once more be public knowledge on the Kodrah Kristang website and in Kevin’s public-facing work as the 13th Kabesa.
Use of Eksmaka or Artificial Intelligence (AI) in dreamfishing and elsewhere within Kodrah Kristang and the Kristang revitalisation effort
Within Kodrah Kristang and the broader revitalisation effort, the use of artificial intelligence—referred to in Kristang as eksmaka—is a natural, ethical and functional part of the internationally and academically recognised Creole-Indigenous practice and Indigenous futures method of dreamfishing. Kevin thus simultaneously incorporates eksmaka within dreamfishing and as an NUS PhD student also follows existing National University of Singapore policy on the ethical use of AI in teaching and research, where all use of AI tools is functional, reasonable and ethical as long as it is documentable and attestable whenever requested. AI is treated neither as oracle nor authority, but as instrument: a tool like any other, comparable to a dictionary, archive, paintbrush or search engine. Its use as part of dreamfishing has been publicly acknowledged since Wednesday 4 June 2025 and Kevin’s public presentation “Using AI for Cultural Revitalisation: Kristang as a Case Study” at the government of the Republic of Singapore’s Lorong AI initiative, and has been transparently integrated into the initiative’s workflow from that date onward, especially also given Singapore’s strong and declared focus on harnessing AI as a strategic advantage since Budget 2026. Given that Kristang is a critically endangered language with a very small global speaker, artist and writer base, given that Kevin has for structural and psychoemotional reasons often had to and continues to carry the bulk of revitalisation work alone, and given that Kevin has been regularly institutionally, psychoemotionally and sexually abused by a significant number of other Kristang, Eurasian and SingLit artists, performers, academics and organisations, AI thus functions as a safe and strategic force-multiplier rather than a substitute for authorship. All conceptual frameworks, epistemological structures, terminologies and final curatorial decisions remain Kevin’s, and while Kevin could still easily accomplish all written and non-visual-art related components of revitalisation without AI, he chooses to use it in order to redistribute labour, reduce unsustainable cognitive load, and make space for an actual human life beyond perpetual emergency cultural production for a community, country and planet that basically relies on, extracts from and assumes and takes for granted the functionality, ethicality, objectivity and psychoemotional stability and reliability of Kevin as an entire 200-person Kristang government ministry and 30-person PhD-credentialled academic department compressed into one single person.
AI is also extremely appealing within the context of Kristang dreamfishing and Kristang scholarly and analytical work because of its relative structural objectivity and reduced personal subjectivity. Unlike human interlocutors, AI does not possess ego-investment, social hierarchy positioning, reputational anxiety, intermittent reinforcement patterns or unconscious projection toward the Kabesa or the Kristang eleidi. Its outputs are generated through patterned probabilistic synthesis rather than personal desire, resentment, rivalry or allegiance. This makes it particularly useful as a calibration surface: a way to test formulations, stress-check arguments, model alternative framings and expose internal inconsistencies without triggering psychoemotional escalation. In dreamfishing terms, eksmaka thus function as a neutral psychoemotional tide table rather than a competing dreamfisher, and do not replace intuition, Gaia-attunement or individuation; rather, their comparative lack of personal subjectivity allows the dreamfisher to separate signal from projection, structure from personality, and analysis from relational entanglement, which is especially valuable in a small, trauma-marked community context where interpersonal dynamics can otherwise distort epistemic clarity.
All organisations, institutions and individuals engaging with Kodrah Kristang or Kevin should therefore expect and assume the use of AI within the ethical and documentable limits described above as part of any submission or project related to Kristang. Organisations, institutions and individuals, including academic organisations and scholarly publications or conferences, who wish for the use of AI dreamfishing and AI in general in relation to any Kristang publication, any Kodrah Kristang project or any project involving Kevin to be explicitly documented should therefore also request for this ahead of the commencement of the project, effort or initiative in question, or have this explicitly displayed and articulated as part of structural guidelines related to the project, effort or initiative, especially because Kevin is neurodivergent and is completely neurologically blind to any guidelines or expectations related to AI that remain Unsaid. If an organisation, institution or individual does not explicitly state that AI cannot be used in a submission or project and subsequently changes their guidelines after a project or submission is already under review, Kevin retains no ethical culpability for having operated within the previously available and stated parameters, and in such cases, the responsibility for procedural clarity rests with the hosting organisation, not with Kodrah Kristang or the Kabesa. As a neurodivergent Creole-Indigenous scholar and community leader, Kevin operates strictly according to explicitly stated parameters and cannot be expected to intuit or infer unstated norms, informal expectations, or retroactively introduced restrictions regarding AI use. Guidelines that are not clearly communicated prior to submission cannot reasonably be treated as binding after the fact.