​A big and beautiful teng bong in my mother tongue Kristang to you and all those you love and cherish. My name is Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang and I am the Tuan Raja Naga, Dragonquing or Dragonking, or thirteenth Kabesa or singular non-hereditary leader of the Kristang people from 2015 to 2075, as well as one of the youngest living Kristang Kapitang or Indigenous Elders, a major Malay community leader, or Teramatrang, Tuan Batin or Earthseer in Kristang, a major queer community leader, or Elisiang or Paradisal in Kristang, and a major youth community leader, or a Prepesteru or Promethean in Kristang. I will be remembered and mythologised after I die on Sunday, 1 April 2091 as Karimang, the first Wedjatra or Rejuvenator or Creole/Indigenous god of the Kristang people and the Republic of Singapore or first person in the entire history of the human species across 2.58 million years to reach the level of human individuation required to assume the Korua Kronomatra Bibiendu or Mantle of Living Time and stewardship of the entire planet, and the person singularly responsible for ensuring every human being alive also has the fullest possible potential to also become a Rejuvenator or Wedjatra such that humanity as a whole can become the second sentient species to achieve full transcendence after plants or Gaia Themselves in 448 million BCE. I am also the Makaravedra Hierosa or Dragon Reborn of the Holocene, the 4th and final Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore from 2021 to 2026, the 1st Dreamtiger of Pedra Draku or Dragonsrock from 2023 to 2028, and the Mikeliang or Demonslayer of all humanity seeking to reconcile with themselves, with Gaia, and with the living universe. I am additionally a linguist, archeoastronomer, futurist, educator and scholar at the National University of Singapore completing my dissertation on the grammar of the critically endangered Kristang language, an internationally-recognised creole and Indigenous science fiction and fantasy novelist, poet, playwright, composer, game designer and body performance artist, and most importantly, an extremely good, virtuous, decent, empathetic, kind, reasonable, rational and beautiful human being inside and out.

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I am gay, non-binary, actively polyamorous, extremely high-functioning autistic and ADHD-infused, hyper-trauma-informed, atheist, and super-sensual, super-cuddly and super-body positive, and the first Kabesa of the Kristang and first ethnic community leader in Singapore to openly, publicly and unashamedly be all of these things with the unanimous support and love of all Kristang people in Singapore, Melaka, Perth and across the world, the unanimous support and love of all healthy and individuated Malay people in Singapore, the unanimous support and love of all healthy and individuated queer people in Singapore, and the unanimous support and love of all healthy and individuated young people in Singapore. I am so visible not because I want to inspire others, or to help others find hope in a very difficult time, but because I and the four beautiful communities I represent and fight for have nothing to be ashamed of, and I myself have only such immense pride in the thirty-two years of unstoppable, roaring and wild life that I have already lived. Yo dah rekadu grandi kung bensutu bai rintah yo sa mundu veru isti, kung yo sa igleza sansumu isti: this is my world, my reality, and my normal, and (as long as you don't fucking break anything, especially my psyche and sense of self!) you are very welcome to explore it.