This is so true, not just in healthcare but in damn near everything. It’s like coming out. The heteronormative understanding is that you come out and that it, done and dusted. The reality is most of us have to come out every bloody day, sometimes multiple times a day. It’s exhausting, frustrating, and debilitating, but […]
Category: LGBT Activism
I identify as a translesbian activist.
The Chosen Haram ~ a theatre review
The Chosen Haram Produced by Turtle Key Arts Assistant Producer Vee Smith Lead Artist and Performer Sadiq Ali Performer Hauk Pattison Circus Movement Consultant Conor Neill Some productions defy description, and The Chosen Haram is one such show. It sits at the cusp of circus, clown, conventional theatre, and ritual and oscillates knowingly between realism. […]
Protections? What Protections?
Nineteen fifty-three was something of a watershed year in Aotearoa New Zealand. Princess, Elizabeth had assumed the throne, Sir Ed had knocked the bastard off, and I discovered Christine Jorgensen It was the latter experience that was to have the most profound effect on me. I was eight, living my young life in Otautahi Christchurch, […]
With Power Comes Responsibility – an intuitive response to the Israel Folau saga.
So Israel Folau is it again. Barely a year after his last homophobic outburst Folau has again hit Instagram with an appalling post anchored in his need to share his religious beliefs. ‘Christianity’ he calls it, but it’s as far from ‘love thy neighbour’ as I am from being an All Black. Why does he […]
‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’
‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’ On Saturday 26 May, 2018, Auckland University of Technology hosted 300+ young women leaders ranging in age from 16 to 22 attending ‘Wāhine Kākano – the 1st New Zealand Young Women’s Festival’. AUT was the venue sponsor and the entire event took place in the […]
Inky Pinky Ponky ~ a theatre review
Inky Pinky Ponky By Amanaki Prescott-Faletau & Leki Jackson Bourke Produced for the ‘Next Big Thing’ Festival by Auckland Theatre Company Directed by Fasitua Amosa Set and Costumes by Christine Urquhart Lighting Designer Rachel Marlow At The Basement Theatre From 10 July, 2015 to 15 July, 2015 at 7.30pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Let’s face it, kid’s […]
Club Paradiso ~ a theatre review
Club Paradiso Produced by Leki Bourke and Gaby Solomona for FCC Written by Victor Rodger Directed by Vela Manusaute Lighting Design by Suivai Autagavaia At the Basement 02 to 06 June 2015 at 8pm Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Yesterday, four incredible things happened. Sepp Blatter resigned as head of FIFA, Caitlyn Jenner came out for Annie Leibowitz […]
GayNZ – PRIDE: Best of the Fest! ~ my tuppence worth …
PRIDE: BEST OF THE FEST With so much on – Fringe Festival, Pride, Summer Shakespeare, Arts Festival – it’s tricky to separate who from what and to remember what was Pride and what wasn’t. Regardless, it was a feast worth partaking in. I had four outstanding experiences during Pride, two were theatre works of exceptional […]
A Different Conversation ~ a workshop where LGBTIQ families talk to Pentecostal & Evangelical Christians as part of Auckland Pride Festival
A Different Conversation Mal Green, organiser Paul Martin, Psychologist Maya Newell, film maker Fa’anana Efeso Collins, Pasifika leader Rev Ali’itasi Salesa, HOD Life and Faith, Wesley College The queer communities have a history of engagement in ‘different conversations’ and I’ve engaged in more than my share. This one is seriously different, however, because this […]
Room 1334 ~ a theatre review
Room 1334 Produced by Mika Haka Foundation Text and original music by Mika Musical director: Siche Zhang Choreographer: Eddie Elliot Sound and light design: Jay Tewake Sound mastering: Alan Jansson Costume and set: Cherry Cherrington and Amelia Unufe Basement Theatre, Greys Avenue, Auckland At 7pm It’s difficult to put a tag on Mika and, really, […]
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