The Hand Mirror

various things in my life have been keeping me busy these days, so that i'm finding little energy to write.  but i've had a bit of t...

"Diversity" is a problematic concept.  I use it sometimes because it's a shorthand way of saying I don't think the most po...

so, where to start on this susan devoy thing? i guess the place to start is that this a difficult thing for me to talk about.  because i...

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've been reading some good stuff in the last couple of days.  i've been directed to some of it by twitter, some by facebook & s...

via facebook, i loved this:

via the ever-wonderful ruth desouza , this is really worth listening to.  while i wouldn't agree with everything she says, i think she ...

i've been meaning to write a post about mona eltahawy's article published in foreign policy , entitled " why do they hate us ...

a post on emotional abuse from an unexpected source. i agree with most of it, and many of the bits i don't agree with have been covere...

it's taken a bit of work, but we finally have a wonderful piece in the herald on sunday , finally giving a positive narrative about nz m...

i'm going to reproduce this piece by kamayani sharma, which a facebook friend directed me to. i think it raises an interesting perspect...

got this via email about developments in saudi arabia: As election centers across Saudi Arabia opened on April 23 for voters to register f...

i've been thinking twice about posting on the women in that photo - the one of mr obama et al watching the killing of osama bin laden -...

In October of last year , this blog was part of a debate about Te Papa and the tikanga they used for some taonga. As a follow-up to that I w...

as i mentioned on my own blog a couple of days ago, i've been busy this week doing the taku manawa human rights facilitation programme ...

random lurker, a commenter here, popped over to my blog a couple of days ago to ask me what i thought about this piece in the wall street j...

there was an interesting event in nz last week: “WISE WOMEN SPEAK,” an intergenerational - inter movement korero (forum) on the liberation ...

interesting article from here : IN A nation as rich in immigrants as Australia, feminists are rightly seeking to bring light to the sufferin...

Cross posted Adele spent a long time on The Hand Mirror, discussing what the furore around Te Papa meant for her ( tahi , rua ). She has pu...

so i've been avoiding the discussion here regarding the whole te papa issue - well, not so much avoiding it as not engaging in it. the d...