The Hand Mirror

The other day I was attempting to do some surveying about a local project in the Roskill shops.  The person who gave me the most time of day...

"Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you." Not so. Time after time we see this, people who suffer...

NB:  These points may already have been made, and made well, elsewhere. I've been largely keeping away from the Roast Busters stuff as I...

Trigger warning: explicit discussion of rape culture.  I understand in a week with so much victim-blaming littering our media, any mention o...

I have to admit to falling prey to despair in the face of the latest example of incredible idiocy from those in charge of what is ironically...

There's a lot of talk at the moment about mental illness, and particularly about assumptions made that really bad things (like mass shoo...

Trigger warnings for rape, substance abuse and addiction, general enragingness.  Also excessive use of CAPS LOCK. I heard a little bit abo...

Thanks to Women's Health Action Trust for allowing me to re-publish this media release here.  It refers to this case in the media last w...

Stella Artois beer advertisement, glamourous woman drinking beer, man gazing on, "She is a thing of beauty".  Someone has scrawl...

Last year I gave a talk on abortion law reform at a local students' association.  There were about twenty people in the audienc...

i've read plenty of posts around the feminist blogosphere about how the default human is male. there's plenty of evidence this is t...

Trigger Warning for this post for rape & violence. I found the three paragraphs below absolutely chilling when I read them last week. ...

Make no mistake:  parental notification for teen abortions is actually about parental consent for teen abortions. Let's consider the b...

Crossposted from "Well behaved women rarely make history." For those of you who (like me) have been busy with work and play, you m...

I adore the spectacle of weddings.  There's just something about seeing the fruition of all that planning and intricate work that gets m...

ARGH the first, was the news, via Russell Brown on twitter (@publicaddress), that Bronagh Key is down on the royal wedding invite list as ...

i'm not really a fan of beauty contests. in fact i pretty much hate them. just the whole idea of lining women up, and judging their fa...

i pretty much hate the waikato times just at the moment. what has let to this depth of feeling is monday's issue, which i only managed ...

Further to my post about AirNZ's vile Grabaseat promotion last week, there have now been articles in both the Sunday Star Times yesterd...

Thanks to a reader who sent this through, here's the text of an email Air NZ has been sending out to promote Grabaseat: Hi XXXXX, Happy ...