The Hand Mirror

Content note: discussions of transphobia and it's impacts, focussed on the recent political discussions about trans* healthcare. There...

Many thanks to Rebecca Fraser, manager of a community organisation that works with single parents, for this post. The Budget released this...

Adrienne Rich is dead . The beautiful, extraordinary brain who once refused a poetry prize from Bill Clinton, saying art was: "inco...

WARNING:  This post and the ensuing thread include a lot of libertarian ranting.  You may prefer to find another time-wasting/procrastinat...

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...

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

People who support MMP say it has increased the diversity of our parliament like that's a good thing. Now there are arguments here, ab...

Hopes were high when Aotearoa New Zealand became the first nation to hold an inquiry into discrimination experienced by trans people in 200...

a couple of links on women's participation in politics and business. first this call for more women to have strong political roles: Mo...

The Labour Party's Let's Not game has been out for a few days.* I'm not linking to it, for reasons that will become apparent, b...

following on from my post of yesterday, below is the speech i gave at an international women's day event yesterday: I’m going to talk ab...

Cross posted The Welfare Working Group was established by Cabinet: ... to undertake an expansive and fundamental review of New Zealand’s we...

Cross posted In July 2010, NZ "left wing" political commentator Chris(opher) Trotter wrote this in respect of Labour MP Steve Chad...

NB: This post is my own view, not a Hand Mirror view. Cross posted Now that the Labour party caucus has castigated the people concerned, and...

Thanks to the Auckland Women's Centre for flagging  this great piece by Julie Bindel  which appeared in The Guardian : Iceland has jus...