proof 2 Unhousing sexuality: Sexuality and singlehood in Singapore’s public housing Lilian Chee Introduction Looking at Singapore’s ubiquitous and successful public housing, this essay will examine the perceptions and appropriations that subtly demarcate sexualized territories within these spaces. It is significant that state-sponsored architecture is outwardly concomitant with the needs and aspirations of the heteronormative nuclear family. Adding to human geography’s critique of heteronormativity’s limitations (Oswin 2010; Pilkey, Scicluna and Gorman- Murray 2015; Ramdas 2012; Wilkinson 2014), I will extend the discussions of ‘alternate sexualities and subjectivities’ through an architectural lens. I focus on ‘other’ spatial performances of such public housing architecture (administered by the Housing Development Board, or HDB) through the embodied perspectives of three single women who live alone in these flats. The essay develops in two parts. The first highlights the problematics of considering sexuality as a critical category in Singaporean public housing. Here, I draw out the precariousness and absolute necessity of a feminist critique within the larger contours of a nationalistic programme, of which Singapore’s public housing is exemplary. The second reprises insights gained from an architectural essay film 03-FLATS 1 , which I conceptualized in collaboration with Singaporean director Lei Yuan Bin. I discuss specific moments and spaces in