The Hand Mirror

waitangi day, again. i started the day with a powhiri at civic square in hamilton, in front of the city council building.  following the p...

I'm super happy to be able to kill two birds with one stone and write a post that serves as not only a suffrage day post but also part o...

Although as AnneE points out some people seem to have neglected to remember what today means , I've been heartened by the tweets a...

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

It's going to be all abortion-blogging all the time this week (at least)from me. I have a lot to say. But before I say anything else I...

The Stanford University magazine has a really fascinating article about Dr Clelia Duel Mosher, a woman who taught in the Hygiene Department ...

Readers may recall that one of Auckland City Council's committees was meeting yesterday to consider the fate of the Suffrage Memorial i...

Further to yesterday's post on the threat to Auckland's Suffrage Memorial , here's a guest post from Councillor Cathy Casey who ...

The first book I ever read by Howard Zinn was SNCC: The New Abolitionists . I've read a lot of his writing since then, and I think it...