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Hello there folks, I am intending to write a series of posts about local government politics, with the aim of enlightening and also encoura...

It's a pleasure to host the 81st (!!) Down Under Feminist Carnival at The Hand Mirror this month.  Thanks to all those who sent in submi...

The Down Under Feminist Carniva l has been going monthly now for a really long time!  You can read the 80th edition, from December 2014, h...

The Green s have a strongly stated commitment to gender balance both for internal party positions and candidates.  They currently have mor...

For 2008 and 2011 I did some analysis of the likely party caucuses after each election, based on list and electorate seat selections, in reg...

In both 2008 and 2011 I did some analysis of the party lists (and electorate selections to a point) to determine likely future women'...

Blogging goodness galore at the 71st Down Under Feminists Carnival , hosted this month by Rebecca at bluebec. Many thanks to whoever nomin...

Cro ss-posted from The Daily Blog   It used to be pretty lonely being a left-wing feminist off-campus.  While I had political friends I ...

Last Friday the Herald published an opinion piece I had submitted arguing for a living wage .  It was my 2012 aim to submit an op ed and I f...

The Down Under Feminists Carnival (affectionately known as the DUFC), now in it's 56th edition (that's 56 months of feministy goodn...

In a series of posts around the issue of the accountability of pseudonymous bloggers Queen of Thorns wrote this about Brian Edwards' po...

We've got some exciting new bloggers, four in fact, coming soon to The Hand Mirror.  Some are still working out what to call themselve...

Up now at Bluebec - make with the clicky! Each month I am so pleased to see this carnival continue and grow and share really good stuff. ...

And hosted graciously at Lip Magazine: 52nd Down Under Feminist Carnival. Make with the clicky, and thanks to those who put it together ...

The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminist Carnival is now up for your perusing pleasure at Zero At The Bone.  Many thanks to those who submitte...

The Forty Fifth Down Under Feminist Carnival is now up at Maybe it means nothing.   Many thanks to Jshoep for putting it together this t...

Many thanks to Mary at Hoyden About Town for putting together this month's Down Under Feminist Carnival - now in it's 44th (!!) mo...

Cross posted from my usual place . Before we start, head over to Christine Miserandino’s piece from which the “spoon theory” has stemmed. I...

Many thanks to Rachel Rayner for this guest post, resulting from a conversation we were having on twitter about just this very topic. ...

Live-blogging from different bloggers here:   Julie - at Labour HQ in Mt Roskill   Luddite Journo - at the Greens HQ in Wellington  M...