The Hand Mirror

we had our national day of action against rape culture.  it was awesome to see so many people out on the streets, raising their voices on th...

Content warning:  This is about rape and the injustice of it, and stupid stupid rape culture that means many keep asking the wrong questions...

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

The Law Commission proposals for alternative trial processes for sexual violence sit in a context of the abject failure of the justice syst...

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a government set up a Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence . They had been shaken by public outr...

Here are my photos from yesterday, in Auckland. I'm not sure if people would like to be named or not (except Cathy) so I haven't sha...

ETA: Updated this morning (Monday) to include more links, in the sections with purple headings :-)  I'm also slotting in new blog stuff...

Saturday June 25th is SlutWalk day for Aotearoa New Zealand.  I'll be at the Auckland SlutWalk , weather willing*, which is 2pm at QEI...

Years ago, I heard a story. A young, and new, constable was posted to Rotorua in the 1980s (yeah it's not a happy story). I don't ...

Garth George does it again . ( Warning, possible triggering around rape and sexual assault in his column) His key points appear to be: Andy...

i've had a pretty gruelling day today. i went up to auckland for the survivors of sexual abuse summit . i was expecting it to be diffi...

This is a repost - I originally posted it on the 14th October 2007. ********* Louise Nicholas: My Story is a very good book. I feel I should...

As you may have noticed I don't post that often. There are lots of reasons for this, but it does mean that I'm not contributing muc...

The paper had sat on our kitchen table for a few days. The Dominion Post is given away for free at campus and one of my flatmates brings it...

So Whale Oil is the first blogger to be charged with breaking name suppression in relation to a rape case. It's strange. It's almos...

In a meta moment, the Herald reports on an interview in the NZ Women's Weekly : The teenage girl indecently assaulted by a prominent m...

From today's Herald: The justice system could be tilted to make it easier to convict sex offenders if the Government adopts proposals in...

Further to Deborah's Ground Rules Post of Awesomeness months back, let's just clarify a few things. This has been rattling around ...

I decided in 2007 that I would not vote for for the Greens while Russel Norman is on the list.* With Russel Norman running in Mt Albert, I w...

Louise Nicholas is promoting Rape Crisis' sexual violence questionnaire : "It is important that the government understand the real ...