The Hand Mirror

It's fair to say Andy Haden and I have different views on the world, sharing only an enjoyment of the athletic.  But when he described h...

This week we got the chance to see a key plank of rape culture in practice. Masculinity cultures in men's sports, or rather the domina...

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...

On the day that many people are celebrating the first marriages able to be made between same sex partners in Aotearoa New Zealand, Family Fi...

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...

Suicide.  Frightening, complex, social phenomena which merits sound, evidence based, community responses. So when this Government announce...

So you fancy yourself a bit of a comedian, with your finger dead on the pulse of the zeitgeist.  Marriage equality feels like a rich vein to...

So now we’re beyond Marriage Equality, what next?   The indicators of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia are still all around us.   W...

Funny story.  I once camped on Garth McVicar's land after a friendly chat with him. I'd just cycled through Te Urewera, in snow, a...

Back when Christchurch anti-choice activist Andy Moore was still around (he’s gone and left us, and moved to Texas ), he and a...

Rape culture is all around us, right?  Excuses for sexual behaviour in which one person's desires are constructed as all important and t...

So language, I'm all down with reclaiming you, in that incredibly hip, post-modern type way, a lot of the time.  Only for words that des...

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 ...

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...

When Family First made it clear Rainbow Youth was in it's sights, it took precisely seven days for a story to appear in mainstream med...

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...

New Zealand, like anywhere else, has its grand narratives, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what coming from this place me...

This was going to be a post about assumptions about sexuality, based on my last couple of days. But then one of my beautiful lesbian friend...

I know, I know, criticising Stuff polls goes very well with the words 'fish' and 'barrel', but something's got to ease m...