The Hand Mirror

Let's say a newspaper writes a beat up story about a flat advert about a household asking for heterosexual people not to apply.  The ar...

1.  Why is it only the people who aren't straight white men who have a judgement based on something about their identity, something ...

This guest post has been submitted and written by an Auckland high school student, chelsea_makita.  She wrote it for a short essay for schoo...

I have to admit to falling prey to despair in the face of the latest example of incredible idiocy from those in charge of what is ironically...

A friend and I were talking about what gender diversity would look like on a form recently, because she was having to design something to co...

There's a lot of talk at the moment about mental illness, and particularly about assumptions made that really bad things (like mass shoo...

so back in july, chally at zero at the bone sent some questions on feminism & faith.  since they weren't easy questions and since i...

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 ...

A thought-provoking guest post by Sophie B. Today someone on the internet asked me about 'benevolent sexism', and I was pleased ...

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...

Thank you, Google, for just so neatly encapsulating the reality of being bisexual in our world.  We don't exist . If you type in gay,...

there's been a lot of coverage about the sky city worker who faced disciplinary action for carrying a bible around in her pocket.  bit o...

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...

Yesterday's Dominion Post reported that the Ministry of Health's senior lawyer, deputy solicitor-general Cheryl Gwyn, has told the ...

30 November 2011 Dear Ms Mathers, I'd like to extend my congratulations to you, and welcome you into your new role as a member of parlia...

[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...

some anonymous person just posted a link to this clip on my blog, which i thought deserved to be shared more widely. it an interview with j...

There's some interesting - and worrying - news regarding employment for women in Christchurch in the aftermath of the earthquake: ......

one of the most common things i hear, which is the flipside to "this is MY country, so you have to do everything MY way", is the o...

"shouldn't be pandering to minorities" i can't count the number of times i've heard that phrase, and it still makes me...