It’s been a challenging year with many of the things I hold dear under serious threat from the current government, and internationally. Not least among these is the status of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. A couple of years ago, Cushla and Finn began to explore their whakapapa – Ngāpuhi nui tonu – leaving me as […]
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Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves and its all in the […]
Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking ~ a theatre review
‘Performance begins where memory leaves off.’ Any high-performance athlete or coach will tell you this, and it applies equally well to the performing arts. I thought about this quite a lot last evening as I blubbed my way through Auckland Theatre Company’s watershed production of Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking, directed by Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Mutunga, […]
‘Tidying the House’~ when silence becomes a betrayal of principle
I was elected to my first governance role when I was eighteen. It was as a member of the board of a teacher union, a branch of the NZEI. I was elected to my most recent governance role – Deputy Chair of the Gender Equity and Inclusion Committee of the World Archery Federation – when […]
‘Stronger Together’
What an INCREDIBLE three days – and what a difference ‘hope’ makes. 170+ of the best people it’s possible to imagine from every corner of the tertiary education sector and from almost every walk of life, all totally committed to making the world a better and more equal place for everyone. It’s not often that […]
Fundamentalists & Toilets
Here’s the thing: fundamentalist Christian hate group Family First are obsessed with who uses what toilet. This campaign attacks people whose gender is in conflict with what they were assigned at birth, people who live authentic lives in their true gender and are not a threat to anyone else using the bathroom. Family First base […]
‘Murica, the Fourth Reich
It’s impossible to know what’s going on in America at the best of times, but what I do know is that, right now, it ain’t at all good for transgender people. Or for the disabled, black people, women, refugees – anyone Trump can ‘other’ as being a DEI hire. Somehow, we’ve managed to become the […]
Te Pâti Māori
I voted for Te Pâti Māori when they first entered the Whare Pāremata and they were fresh. To add joy to my vote, I cast it at the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo. I’ve always wanted them to do well but I lost faith in them when they opted to join John Key’s ratbag lot. […]
Lexie ‘Online’
It has to be said that I love the Internet. I have no idea how we functioned without it because it’s like GPS. With my diabolical sense of direction, I have no idea how I got anywhere before GPS but it seems I did because the facts speak for themselves, and it’s all there in […]
Waitangi Day 2024
We always commemorate actual Waitangi Day in special ways because, in Aotearoa, and in our world, every day is Waitangi Day. This year (2024) we again celebrated Waitangi Day ‘out west’ at Parr’s Park at Waitangi@Waititi, a fantastic event organised by Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust and with a cast of thousands. We took 35,000+ […]
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