The Hand Mirror

On Friday I went to the Wellington launch of a new book, Child Poverty in New Zealand, by Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple (Bridget William...

Hannah Spyksma cannot expect to go to a rugby game without homophobic abuse , because Eden Park and New Zealand rugby don't want to be t...

Gender differences are science, dammit, when will you silly social constructionists get over yourselves and admit girls just like looking a...

I first thought about gender testing in sport while reading Mariah Burton Nelson's phenomenal feminist love prose to women's athleti...

When we discussed women's pubic hair a while back, there were lots of interesting comments from people with very diverse views on the s...

I want to live in a world without sexual violence, and I believe that is possible, because I believe the causes of sexual violence are thing...

Fairfax NZ article ' Cross-dressing teen dupes friends for sex ' A 19-year-old British girl lived a double life, dressing up as a...

I went to Camp Betty a while back now, and have been meaning to blog about it since. Billed as a "three-day festival celebrating and...

Many thanks to aboveandbeyondgender for the tip off :-) Come join in a lil bit of Wednesday night fun..... JUNE 1st - 7:30PM - @ Kamo Bar...

Cross posted from Well behaved women rarely make history My name is Scuba. Danger. Nurse. – yes my middle name is danger. I am THAT awesome...

This post is a quibble about something that may look really tiny, compared to all the Big Issues. But it's been bugging me all week. P...

trigger warning for sexual violence. a must watch. hat tip to shakesville , who have a full transcript.

i've been meaning to link to this post by pablo at kiwipolitico for some days now. it deals with the depiction of men in advertising o...

"Study shows boys and books don't mix", said the Dom-Post headline on Saturday. "Boys think reading books is for girls.....

Cross posted Careful - this may be TRIGGERING, and the links may be TRIGGERING. Dr Dix P. Poppas of Cornell University Medical School has be...

in lieu of a proper post, i'll do another plug for radio nz by saying you should listen to these interviews: this one with geena davis ...

found this clip from morning report yesterday (radio nz, 8.39am) about testing kits that will tell you the gender of your baby from 2 month...

There is an article called "Good luck raising that gender-neutral child" over at Salon that explores ideas of gender development ...

It's been hard not to cringe watching the fallout from Caster Semenya's extraordinary 800m win in Berlin. Everything about the way ...

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...