behind the scenes


Charmaine Tan has been working with the community since 2001. Besides being a part of the Women's Nite Team, she is also one of the founders of Pelangi Pride Centre, Singapore's first community space for sexual minorities. Her non-LGBT work has encompassed the provision of education and skills-training to lesser developed countries. As a past chairperson for The Necessary Stage's Theatre for Youth Ensemble, she continues to have a great passion for the Arts. When not furiously typing away on her laptop, she is the proud owner of 7 cats, 1 dog and 1 sucker fish.


Eileena Lee is the founder of RedQuEEn, Singapore's first and largest e-group for queer women as well as a past president of the Singapore-based gay rights advocacy group, People Like Us. She also helped start Pelangi Pride Centre. Eileena volunteers as programme coordinator for Action for AIDS Singapore, promoting safe sex measures to women who have sex with women and also sits on the HIV/AIDS & Women sub-commitee of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) - the first and, at present, only advocacy group dedicated to promoting gender equality and understanding in Singapore. Eileena is a Buddhist who goes to church because she believes in the truth of all faiths.


Tan Hui Yee has been helping to organise Women's Nites since 2004. She has been a volunteer with The Working Committee, a group that promoted civil society activism, as well as The Working Committee 2 (now Transient Workers Count Too) which helped advocate for better conditions for migrant workers in Singapore. She is owned by a cat which thinks it's a dog.


Amanda Lee has been hooked on attending Women's Nites since 2004 and became part of the Women's Nite team in mid 2006 because she believes in the good it sets out to do. She has volunteered with, and continues to support the activities of AWARE and Pelangi Pride Centre. One of the reasons why she enjoys her job so much is because she gets to plan volunteerism opportunities for the rest of her colleagues. She is an aspiring vegetarian with a voracious appetite for frivolous fashion.


Gea Swee Jean is an ambitious young woman in Singapore. She loves women, cats, kopi (must be from the kopitiam, not Starbucks etc), good design, World of Warcraft, overachieving, artistic endeavours, her family and friends, standing up for what she believes in, tech gadgets, East Coast Park, world peace, doing a good job, and making genuine connections with people. She is also passionate about technology, marketing, magazines, communication, and supporting good causes on a voluntary basis, such as helping to organize Women's Nite. Alongside three team mates, she has also produced and published "We Are Family: Stories of People with Disabilities in Singapore", a fundraising book for the Spastic Children's Association of Singapore.


Sylvia Tan has gotten progressively more involved in Women's Nite from being a monthly fixture since 2004 to moving furniture around to brainstorming monthly topics with the team (and still being a monthly fixture). She hopes for attendees to uphold the lesbian tradition of potlucks by bringing home-cooked dishes to the event :) Sylvia is also the editor of fridae.com.

We are supported by a team of other volunteers as well.