2009/10 turns over with some weird shit
At the end of 2009, 158 Associated Press sports editors voted on the Female Athlete of the Year. Serena Williams was the well deserved winner, with three doubles (with sister Venus) and two singles...
View ArticleAustralian cricket takes one for feminism
Anyone who watches cricket will be aware that the Australian men’s vice-captain, Michael Clarke, did the unthinkable and left a tour early to go home because something bad was happening in his personal...
View ArticleSociology at the Basin, or why are we so obsessed with men having sex?
I have been going to watch cricket with my father since 1980, when we saw Ewen Chatfield take 13 wickets for Wellington at the Hutt Rec to beat the then world champion West Indies. I was nine, and...
View ArticleDon’t you want me John????? How about you Andy? Richard?
Oh, it’s a strange, strange world. If I don’t like the leader of the country I live in talking about how he wishes he could cheat on his wife like Tiger Woods and Shane Warne with a man guilty of...
View ArticleWhen I grow up I want to be an old woman
I don’t know much about Age Concern, though I respect their work identifying elder abuse in New Zealand, where we have four referrals each day, and like most other kinds of intimate violence, women are...
View ArticleIt’s just a joke
Occupational hazard of wanting to end rape culture: you spend lots of time designing training and education packages for people around the ways alcohol facilitates sexual violence which try very hard...
View ArticleAggressive Promotion
So Murray McCully is overseeing a halving of women employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in frontline diplomatic roles. It’s down from 30% under the last Labour-led government, to just...
View ArticleRanking full stop
Some political commentators, while still reporting them widely, at least noticed the annual Transtasman political rankings favour National MPs over those on the left, but no one seems that interested...
View ArticleWAM – Guide to reporting gender-based hate speech to Facebook
A while back I shared the result of Women, Action and Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and author Soraya Chemaly’s activist coalition to change gender-based hate speech on Facebook. And now there are...
View ArticleCheering with the man fans
When the great Audre Lorde said there is no such thing as a single issue, because we don’t lead single issue lives, she didn’t have New Zealand’s current debates run by (straight, white, cis,...
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