Tag Archives: fight the power

Props to Mike King

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

… for being part of this initiative to talk to communities and young folk about depression and suicide. It’s been one of my major insta-rage issues since I was a teenager: the constant rhetoric around youth suicide and how we … Continue reading →

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Monday warm fuzzies

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

A high-school principal removed the mirrors from the girls’ bathrooms and replaced them with the signs below. Source.

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One Billion Rising

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. It’s not an even one-in-three across the board: if you’re a woman of colour, a trans woman, a woman with disability, you’re at far greater … Continue reading →

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Signal boost: Signathon against asset sales

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

Via frogblog.  Let’s make this Citizens’ Initiated Referendum happen, people!  (Not the snappiest of catch-cries but it will do.) Over this weekend 24-25 November, the Keep Our Assets coalition is mounting a major nationwide collection drive to reach the signature target needed to … Continue reading →

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SlutWalk 2012 roundup

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

SlutWalk Wellington (and Christchurch, and Perth) was yesterday.  While the turnout wasn’t up to last year’s, I thought it was a great event.  Minus the abusive drunken heckler who seemed determined to insist that “no one should call themselves a … Continue reading →

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What did you expect, wearing trackpants like that?

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

LudditeJourno has fought the good fight once more against the forces of misogyny: Two women fought off separate attacks from an unidentified man in central Whanganui.  Police suspect the attacks were related, as both involved women being targeted from behind, … Continue reading →

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No more Ms Nice Blogger: the War on Gay Teens

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

A Rolling Stone article from February has been doing the rounds – and should carry many big, clear trigger warnings for suicide, self-harm, homophobia, and hate speech (reported).  This post on its contents likewise. It’s entitled “One Town’s War on … Continue reading →

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Fighting the patriarchy in lipstick vol. 2

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

Part 1 of this post was published yesterday.  Check it out, ’cause it’ll probably make this post make more sense. 3.  A life lived in stress is a life half-lived Let’s assume, for this section, that one completely rejects the … Continue reading →

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Fighting the patriarchy in lipstick vol. 1

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

This post got a little long, so tune in tomorrow for part 2, in which I reserve the right to manage my own spoons, we note that a life conforming ain’t perfect either, and I get to the point.  Kinda. … Continue reading →

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We don’t know how lucky we are

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

On 8 March 2012, International Women’s Day, British novelist Linda Grant used her Twitter account to discuss the continuing necessity of feminism. These are the responses she received. So sayeth A Thousand Reasons, a damn good, illuminating, infuriating Tumblr compiling … Continue reading →

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