The Hand Mirror

On the day that many people are celebrating the first marriages able to be made between same sex partners in Aotearoa New Zealand, Family Fi...

there's this whole discussion happening about women changing their names after marriage, again.  there's a good rundown of how this ...

I spied her clipboard from across the room, as she drew it slowly from her bag.   Noting the image across the top of the petition sheet, my ...

Love is love is love. That's the game we're playing now. That's what the images say, uniform toilet-symbol representations of bi...

Homosexual law reform in the mid 1980s was hugely formative for me.  In my mid-early teens, it was the first time I realised I wasn't a...

Well actually, it's past time.  But now is still good. If you want to vote on this poll, (screenshot above taken at 11am) it's...

To straight people pledging not to get married until same sex marriage is legally recognised: please, don't do it for me. If you want ...

[i wrote this post early last week, but ended up with a severe infection that meant i've been offline for several days. re comments: i...

This image has been floating round on my Facebook feed over the past few days, and it's not the first of it's kind. And I underst...

[ crossposted ] i've been inspired by annanonymous' post on naming to reflect on my own choices of names as a parent. she makes th...

Feel free to answer for yourself in comments, regardless of your intentions to stand for Parliament :-)  If elected to Parliament at this ...

Another <3 in the direction of Judy Horacek . ETA:   There's quite a bit of friendly debate about this cartoon in comments - feel f...

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 ...

The Economist and New Internationalist are both currently running articles about the skewed gender ratios that are being seen in India. Whi...

A question:  Will the rise of social media mean fewer women change their names on marriage? Finding people on Facebook relies largely on k...

hmm, i'm not sure exactly how to feel about this : A 30-year-old Taiwanese woman has put an unusual twist on the traditional white weddi...

Yes, I've probably extrapolated slightly too far, with my headline, but it really isn't that far from what Family First appear to be...

Cactus Kate has highlighted a truly awful sexist motoring column by Eric Thompson, which you can read if you want to soil your eyes with an...

An article by Kate Ellis on the Australian On Line Opinion website: Apparently post feminist women are reinventing hen’s nights in order to ...