The gender unicorn – slide from Hutt Valley High School’s Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) lessons: Who am I? Diverse Gender & Sexual IdentitiesThis New Zealand school hosts a club for sharing advice on breast binding and cross-sex hormones. Hutt Valley High School didn’t want parents to see the classroom materials that I’m about to […]
“@patbrittenden’s platforming of @byroncclark is not the crime here – not challenging him on his history of antisemitism is….” – @AKADaneGiraud
“Tory is not a teenager: this is a 40-year-old, with a reputation as a bit of a boozer that preceded the incident. She is also the mayor of our capital city but hasn’t seemed to modify her behaviour”. – @AKADaneGiraud
I weep for my profession, once noble and grand, Institutions crumbling, like castles in sand. My heart breaks for colleagues, their careers laid to rest, Souls shattered, dreams shattered, as mine in unrest. Academics, esteemed, soon left in the cold, Their jobs sacrificed for avarice, untold. Administrative staff, bloated and vast, While scholars find solace […]
The thing about the liberal temperament is that, for some on the left, it comes across as just a little too relaxed. – Chris Trotter
“Cheerleading illiberal laws such as a swastika ban will only confirm that trope in many people’s minds.” – @AKADaneGiraud
From the @plebity Conference 2023: Free Speech and the Left. Religion and Free Speech with @DaphnaRedliner @JMchangama and @danielbenami
“I am grateful that New Zealand enjoys much stronger protections for speech rights today, but such protections remain most important for the marginalised and the dissenting.” – @Adamyoungnz
On the @nzfreespeech panel were @JMchangama (the esteemed guest of the AGM), Jewish Council spokesperson JulietMosesNZ, ACT MP Karen Chhour and Dr. David Bromell. An often-feisty Q & A follows the initial discussion.
“People won’t always agree with me, and I don’t ever expect they will or do but we at least need to have the conversations that need to be had.” – @AuntyHeihei