Today, this might very well be unnecessarily pathologized by agencies such as Rainbow Youth or InsideOUT. My male body and supposed female “gender soul” would be regarded as mismatched, and I would be treated accordingly. Almost like, say, conversion therapy, no? – Paul Letham-McGrath
“This analysis is why D&W have labelled the 2023 election ‘the anti-election’, because leadership seems to be expressed, exercised and experienced in negative terms” – Mike Grimshaw
“… it was his personal comments about his experience as a gay clergyman that really resonated. He quite literally has been exposed to the rhetoric that Simon and Damien want to protect, for example, trans people, from.” – @aniobrien
“Listening to Thistoll’s arguments, I struggled to shake off the impression of a reactionary soul opportunistically anchoring himself to a marginalized group to validate his repressive inclinations”
At the start of the season, my hopes and expectations were simply that the Warriors make the top 8. As the season progressed, those expectations shifted, and I’ve needed to temper my excitement and keep reminding myself of what I had originally hoped for. Safe to say the original expectations have well and truly been […]
“Levett’s central point is that “the 1930s welfare state was aimed at the spirit of the nation.” – Mike Grimshaw
In an old, yellowing manuscript, that had all but faded from the dreams of its author, I rediscovered a story I had quickly sketched out, which today seems to hold an eerie significance. It tells a tale of some ostensibly pious villagers who had garnered the power to vanish, their invisibility giving them license to […]
“I have good reason to believe that by writing the following I am risking my professional registration as a secondary school teacher. That’s because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, things are getting pretty dicey in the workplace for supporters of freedom of speech. Why?” – Nick Hanne
When the Stuff produced documentary “Fire and Fury” was released last year it caused quite a stir. A desperately overproduced polemic on the Parliamentary Protests of March 2022, fronted by respected journalist Paula Penfold, the creative team laid it with a trowel, from the strange apocalyptic graphics to a soundtrack worthy of a Vincent Price […]
The recent news that Morning Report on Radio RNZ is hemorrhaging listeners should come as no surprise to any knowledgeable and literate regular listener of the show. In my house I’ve been threatened with a Morning Report ban unless I stop my regular outburst of exasperated, horrified, appalled, swearing, shouting, and twitching, all of which […]