The Hand Mirror

What to make of Chris Brown being so well supported by a handful of Māori women, some with history of working to prevent family violence, t...

A few days ago, I spent the afternoon with a group of women. We had met, generally through online groups or professional contacts, and kept ...

Last year I was involved in organising Queer the Night, a march in response to transphobic and homophobic violence on our streets. It was an...

The following was recently published in 'Thinking Differently', the quarterly newsletter of Autism New Zealand Inc. 'Your Le...

Luddite Journo has written several excellen t posts on the urgent funding plight of Auckland's 24/7 phoneline for those affected by se...

Jared at Left Wing rants has written an excellent overview of political parties and their attitudes to/policies on reducing family violence:...

it's september the 11th again, and ten years on from the attack on the various targets in the unites states. every year we have the rem...

A guest post from Josephine at the Wellington Young Feminists’ Collective, cross posted on the WYFC blog . Many thanks to WYFC for submittin...

as with everyone else, i'm absolutely gutted about the news in norway. it's appalling attack and a terrible tragedy for the people ...

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...

"Are you here somewhere?" I wasn't - I was running late - but the wording of the text was quite thrilling. I got there just ...

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

On Thursday 9th June a march will be held through Wellington city to stop homophobia and transphobia on our streets. Queer the Night was in...

i'm just going to link to other people's writing on the case where a jury acquitted who had admitted tying his son to his wrist, sha...

a victim fights back and becomes a hero . it's not hard to understand why. i think many of understand what it's like to be picked ...

surely i'm not the only one who had never heard of benji marshall until his appearing in the news for allegedly [just for you, graeme] a...

there have some cases in hamilton of men being abducted and raped. it turns out that the police have now made an arrest, so how do you thin...

this song is one my favourite ever, although i had listened to it for years and had forgotten what it was called. but thanx youtube! i'v...