The Hand Mirror

via the ever-wonderful ruth desouza , this is really worth listening to.  while i wouldn't agree with everything she says, i think she ...

Today I've attended two ANZAC ceremonies in my local area - the first a civic ceremony at the local war memorial cairn, the second at a ...

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...

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

This morning Snuffly, his father and I trudged along May Rd in the rain to the Mt Roskill War Memorial.  There was quite a crowd; the hall w...

In both 2008 and 2009 we put together roundups of NZ women blogging on theme of ANZAC Day on April 25th.  Let's give it a go again thi...

here is a link to the video of my spot on Q & A. i don't know how to embed it so you'll have to watch on the tvnz site. here...

is it just me, or are there a whole lot more war dramas and programmes on tv than their used to be? i've avoided pretty much all of them...

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...

ok, this one's just a little controversial, but hey, what's a blog for if not to challenge it's readers... below are excerpts fr...

A while ago, this article caught my attention. It's about the British Ministry of Defence reviewing its ban on military women in close...

This guest post has been written by Auckland Tamil woman Anna Ponnampalam. Thanks Anna for sharing the recent history of Tamil female comba...

Last week, Stuff featured a very poignant article about one Sgt John M Russell , a soldier with the US army. Russell was only a matter of w...

As part of our brief to promote the blogging of NZ women, here's a round-up of posts on the main theme of April 25th each year, the comm...

Some thirty years ago, my dad got chatting to a very old man. In the course of the conversation, the old man remarked that he'd been hi...

We approached Stephanie Mills to write a guest piece on the issue she actually went on Breakfast to talk about in the first place and she...

Following an international outcry , Afghanistans' President Hamid Karzai has agreed to revise a law allowing marital rape , and requirin...

We kiwi opponents of Israel's current aggression find ourselves in a tricky position. What, ethically and constructively, can we actual...

You may have seen the status updates on facebook. Although it depends on who your friends are I guess. At the moment they look like this: I...

Anna has something percolating on this in more depth, so until then, stealing an idea Carol left in our comments, here's a round-up of w...