The Hand Mirror

I've been away at a feminist retreat for the weekend, recharging my energy for gender equity fights with some feminist sheroes.  We don...

I've written before on why we should focus attention upon the powerful , rather than people who experience oppression.  Pretty much Chan...

I have no good feminist reasons to love Middle Earth, and plenty to find it problematic.  Tolkien was clearly uninterested in women - Lord...

Not for the first time, the genius of Jacky Fleming shows how skewed our world becomes when we focus on the wrong end of power and oppressi...

4,000 people marched in the hīkoi 'Aotearoa is not for sale'  Friday (this is some of them). I joined from a feeder march fr...

WARNING:  This post and the ensuing thread include a lot of libertarian ranting.  You may prefer to find another time-wasting/procrastinat...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

I first learned about Living Below the Line at the Wellington Candidates Meeting - it was not auspicious introduction. James Shaw mention...

Very quick post from me on the Issue of the Morning - Alasdair Thompson's incredibly sexist comments that women are paid less because of...

She is 16 years old and she's an actress. Her friends may perform in school plays, but she is an actress - she has a job. She's in...

For many years there's been a conversation amongst feminist women involved in students' associations about how there are still tarif...

Today's Ideas programme, presented by Chris Laidlaw this morning , I only caught a snippet of this, but it sounded great. (A reminder, ...

The Guardian, in an article about food wastage , writes: There are nearly a billion malnourished people in the world, but all of them could ...

well it turns out that " neuroses " can be very effective sometimes. remember the "cotton on" kids clothing range that p...

In a few days' time, my daughter turns eight. Unbeknown to her, she's about to enter a new consumer group: the tweenies. And buyin...

The UK's Filament magazine is having an uphill battle. It's a magazine for women featuring erotic imagery of men, and goes by the ...

From Stuff today: Reduced To Clear has arrived in Wellington, selling products - some past their best-before date - at half the price or l...

Fourteen years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow Nigerian activists were put to death by the Nigerian state, with the collusion of ...

God bless the American Civil Liberties Union: they're launching a lawsuit challenging the patent on BRCA1 and BRCA2 , two genes which, i...

The Service and Food Workers' Union 's 'Clean Start' members are holding a rally in Auckland on Thursday (14 May) to mark th...