The PI vote and political stunts
The mainstream media got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when a number of Pasifika church leaders were photographed at the Manurewa markets wearing blue, Key-people t-shirts.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Pharrell: a new brand of feminism?
We need less men declaring their allegiance to feminism and more men unpacking patriarchy and challenging toxic modes of masculinity.
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Will the daily body shaming and policing of women’s behaviour ever end? Apparently not.
The last few months have been particularly bad for the shaming and policing of women’s bodies in the media, both in New Zealand and globally.
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A case study of racism by Police at Auckland Airport
This treatment of us was appallingly disgraceful and we have lodged a formal complaint with the Police.
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Film Review: Divergent 3stars
Divergent follows a pretty generic formula and it is a shame the director Neil Burger (Limitless) made the decision to leave out some of the darker parts of the book.
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The New Epidemic: the rise of female drinking
“Hang out in the brightly lit rooms of AA, or in coffee shops, talking to dozens of women who have given up drinking, and this is the conclusion you come to: for most, booze is a loan shark, someone they trusted for a while, came to count on, before it turned ugly.”
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Deconstructing the media metanarrative
The mainstream media are good at letting us know their politics, because their preferences and positions haven’t shifted in decades. The media support big business, racist, stereotypical ideas that successfully helped disengage 800,000 eligible voters last time around.
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Combating the stigma around mental health
The wide spread social stigma and myths around people who have a mental health diagnosis is what we really, should be discussing
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“Please, be that guy.”
The thing is I have spent a greater part of my life campaigning for the rights of women and trying to think of ways we might end rape and violence against women. It has only occurred to me in the last year or so, the violence is never going to decrease or stop unless we seriously address how we are raising young men.
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But it’s just all in good fun, right?
My job entails making food and plating up and apparently listening to my head chef’s commentary as he reduces women who walk into the café, to parts of their bodies with his words.