On beauty routines…
Someone asked me yesterday if I had a ‘beauty routine’
culture
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GUEST BLOG: Ruby Joy – A blog for John Doe
I want people to stop blaming mental health alone and start realising that the hand to hold closest to us is theirs. Some things can’t be fixed but all things can be fought and every enemy subdued – not by an offices intellect but by the collective might of enough civilian foot soldiers.
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Solo Fatherhood, gender roles and my fingernail polish
Solo Fatherhood is just like sole fatherhood but uses Han Solo more.
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If only actual suicide could get as much immediate action as fictional suicide on Netflix
We are in denial about how our neoliberal welfare state and free market consumer culture has contributed to the zeitgeist of suicide and we don’t have the maturity to confront our delusion which is why it’s easier for us to slap some censorship on an internet series that talks about it.
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The ugly side of win-at-all-costs sport
The Warriors rugby league club is to be commended for helping one of its star players, Kieran Foran, through his mental health problems. Foran has been frank about his gambling addiction and his suicidal feelings.
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Sorry
Although it’s beginning to fade from the newscycle, I have a few opinions about the recent injurious removal of a passenger Dr. David Dao from a United flight. As reported on Fortune.com, United released first-quarter earnings, and apologized for the second time.
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What response to SBWs rugby jersey really says about NZ
We are a nation who demands that our bread and circus occurs without ever having to know how the bread was baked or circus made.
We are blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to why are attention is being distracted in the first place.
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Why I have to boycott the Poppy this ANZAC Day
There’s nothing to commemorate when we hide our war crimes, because the very honour we seek to respect can not stand while we turn a blind eye. To stand at attention during the Dawn Service with this disgrace hanging over our armed services makes us hypocrites, and the men and women who have died in our conflicts deserve better than that.
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Happy Easter – let’s crucify consumerism
For me Easter isn’t about the rebirth of the Christ child as human manifestation of God, it’s about the largest unbroken block of holiday time we all get. For me Easter is about family, about friends, about spending quality time with the people in your life who the busyness of working for the man robs us of.
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What John Ansell and ISIS have in common
To describe such performance art as ‘primitive’ is the ignorance of an extremist and that’s what Ansell is. So blinded by his bigotry, he has the eyes of a barbarian. He views Maori culture the way ISIS view ancient art, demanding it be destroyed rather than cherished.