A dear friend wrote the following: “With their permission (of course), I’d love to see this design go viral and so widely worn it shows how ridiculous this law is. Picking on a 12 year old! Be so good to see all ages, sizes, ethnic groups politicizing their active wear in protest… A sweatshirt in […]
Month: December 2024
When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing.
Facebook 31 December 2021 When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing. I didn’t know then but where we lived was the wrong side of the tracks and brutally working class. It was post-war, the dawning of the 1950s, and everyone on our street lived in a state house. […]
Pride and the Police
Written for ‘The Spinoff‘: Trans academic Lexie Matheson on her community’s complex relationship with the police. It seems cop cars seem have always played a part in my life, and, since my coming out, even more so. As a young, middle class, white male professional, I seemed to be treated quite well – even though […]
The Boys and the Biff ~ NZ Police & ‘Serving the Crown’
This was written first in 2007 after the final aborted trial, aborted because, for the second time the arresting officer Sachin Nair failed to appear. In fact, he’d failed to do anything which included ensuring a police prosecutor was appointed to present the NZ Police case. It was a shambles and I reprint this blog […]
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