Deaf. NZSL (second language). Cis/she/her. Pākehā. Advocate for accessibility & inclusion. Trans rights are human rights. Aotearoa Toitū Te Tiriti. Land back. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Free Kanaky... Formally kiwi_curly on Twitter
Ōtepoti: solidarity with local trans folk Sarah is studying at Otago Uni, seeking asylum here in Aotearoa Te Waipounamu. She needs our support with living, fees & gender affirming care costs givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...
Support Sarah After Escaping Prosecution as a Trans Refugee Advocate.Sarah is a trans advocate that lost her scholarship because she's trans. She has limited support due to her asylum seeker status.givealittle.co.nzAn age old reminder that free speech does not mean freedom from consequences
CEO Johnny CansConfirmation Interim HDCA Order. Complaints March & May 2026. Bradbury was asked to stop, refused, made further harmful comments. The complainant would like an apology, the posts removed and for Bradbury to not encourage anyone else to post info. archive.is/uOkTv
A good topic to raise with potential MPs re: properly funding and resourcing our health system
SachaNZ Cervical Cancer Register a casualty of big staffing disruption during development.
The joy* of being defined by: whether you've got a uterus whether the uterus 'works' or not whether you already birthed a child or children and therefore 'done your part' in a heterosexual, monogamous relationship or not *sarcasm
CEO Johnny CansWomen! Your job is Make Babies. Winston Peters will pay you 5k tax free per year for the first three years of three babies lives! The party of "defending women" needs you to Make Babies to replace the population. Only open to Citizens. No foreigns.
Need to subscribe to read the whole article but Lewis provides a substantial thread here Hard read Important for many reasons, not least because of what Palestinians are dealing with. It has implications for any society that lets Israel get away with genocide, including here in Aotearoa
Sophie LewisI have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.
Ōtepoti: in the 20 days the mask bloc has been available at Dunedin Public Library, 1585 masks have been given away At moment there's less variety of masks available, whilst we bloc team catch up with ordering, but there are still regular sized white KN95 & N95s available every few days or so
Jasmin TaylorŌtepoti: a wee bit of good news, there's now a mask bloc set up at Dunedin Public Library (Moray Pl) Free masks! At the moment there's a good selection of masks (mostly regular sized but a handful of XXL & a few small as well) so if you've ever been wanting to take a few to try out 👍👍