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Elections, elections, who wants an election?
Simon Power’s announcement that there are no limits on what third parties can spend trying to sway our votes next election is obscene. Even more obscene is his justification: This package comes after...
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Turn the page on hate
Everyone has words they love. I describe good-looking people as “beautiful.” I use “delicious” for all kinds of sensual pleasures. I say a concept is “contested” when I believe bringing it up in a...
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Help yourself
I went to see “The Help” tonight, after reluctantly reading the Kathryn Stockett’s book a couple of months ago. I just wasn’t sure I wanted to read central Black characters as imagined by a white...
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Wellington Women’s Boarding House
Homelessness for women is more common than we think. At least, that’s if we think outside the “street homeless” box that might be where most of us first go. I screened homeless women for the largest...
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If I had a million dollars, could I still have socialism of the heart?
Post-election, my bus driver last night waxed lyrical about John Key “not having a mandate to sell state assets, 75% of New Zealanders are against, they just won’t do it”. Yet first thing this morning...
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The problem is violent greed
Not for the first time, the genius of Jacky Fleming shows how skewed our world becomes when we focus on the wrong end of power and oppression: Since coming into power, this National government has been...
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What about the war on greed?
Welcome, those who do not agree with seeing those most impoverished in our society treated like the cause of the recession, to the National Day of Action Against Welfare Reform. There are peaceful...
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One film to rule them all
I have no good feminist reasons to love Middle Earth, and plenty to find it problematic. Tolkien was clearly uninterested in women – Lord of the Rings features powerful women primarily as...
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On Margaret Thatcher and empathy
Margaret Thatcher would have been delighted at the way her death is being treated by the left. What better compliment could there be for the woman who did as much as she could to dismantle society...
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C.L.I.T.festing
I’ve spent a big chunk of the weekend at CLITfest in Wellington, and now I feel fed, not just by the incredible presentations – though I didn’t go to one session which didn’t stretch my thinking in one...
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Heavyweight Sunday: Torchwood
Star Wars was my first movie, a metaphor for tolerance if not celebration of difference if ever there was one. I’ve explored ideas about social structures through science fiction ever since. So when...
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