A million microaggressions
I’d never heard the word “microaggressions” before I started learning about feminism, and to be honest at first I thought it was, I don’t know, too sensitive? What did it Continue Reading →
Author Archives: writehanded
Rebel Girl Reads 2018
I’m running a reading challenge with my flatmate next year. We’re reading books by and about badass babes. You can join!
To you live, from bed!
NetHui live! From my bed! Ok, it’s not my bed, it’s my friend @Antheaw’s bed, and we are attending NetHui in a very appropriate way: via the Internet.
The medication merry-go-round
I think most people know that when you have cancer, your treatment options are mostly horrible, and the side effects are almost as bad as the illness itself. I don’t Continue Reading →
Resurrection
I, like many others, had given up hope after Election Night. I honestly didn’t think there was any chance that NZ First would form a coalition with Labour. I thought Continue Reading →
Why I love language
I’m trying to cobble together some poetry at the moment, from memos and fragments and notes on napkins. It’s not going great but it made me think about language and Continue Reading →
The thoughts = wellness myth
The prevailing belief in kiwi culture is that if you just try hard enough, you’ll succeed. Try, try, and try again, right? Yeah. It’s a nice idea. But it’s not Continue Reading →
Make it count
Today is Suffrage Day in New Zealand. On September 19 in 1893, we became the first country in the western world where women won the right to vote.
Depression-and-anxiety
I was speaking to a friend the other day, and she mentioned that her husband had ‘depression-an-anxiety,’ just like that, with the ‘d’ dropped out and all-as-one-word. Which made me Continue Reading →
Forgive me my salt
‘WHEN I SAY I FORGIVE YOU, KNOW THIS./ I did not bury the hatchet./ I have the hatchet in my hands./ I am building myself a new house. That was Continue Reading →