also from a violence prevention standpoint the dumb gender bill is bogus and doesn't provide safety or reassurance to any one except random guys with hypothetical scenarios

i have been doing this work for a couple years & i want to emphasise that when we stop this kaupapa it hurts women and LGBTQIA+ (the high majority of victims of violence) AND leaves a demographic of boys and men with very few pathways out of a growing cult of violent behaviour. prevention works!

I usually skip the book. If it was important the author would have called my phone and told me.

wish i could go to Cuba dupa without gnawing at my own arm like a rabid dog bc someone breathed on me

watched the most recent Bridgerton season & a character said Mary woolstonecraft "had a lot of great ideas but didn't sufficiently understand love" & it made me so mad i shook the TV

watching task just screaming and screaming

put bugonia on for my mum and afterwards she turned to me and asked, "what's wrong with you"

love a corned beef ay who up corning their beef

seen a couple reviews now of Poorhara that are essentially "the story touches on the hard reality but the writer didn't provide any hope" & i have to say that is such a braindead proposition u want me to fix the world in the story so what? u can be like yay poverty is surmountable? get rekt

I H8 when ur having a private existential breakdown during the holidays and then u just have to sit in the lounge for four hours finding a movie the whole blended family will enjoy or everyone will appear at ur bedroom door like the ghosts of Xmas past present future to ask questions three

the weirdest thing about being published in nz is that your biggest critics are estranged family friend s, deadbeat relations and old classmates your biggest fans are fellow writers, lecherous older men and grandmothers

yes [advertisement] it would be glorious to be off my face on cherry danishes & cream prancing around a Christmas tree in frilly pjamas like a pervert but that's not the world i live in!! that's not where i reside!!

I'm a simple person I have coffee in the morning then eight hours of crippling hunger that I attribute to tiredness then a terrifying binge of scrambled eggs

i am constantly burned by the romance smut genre bc every single blurb says the characters have breathtaking chemistry and then the interactions are like, "hey girl u r my girl and no one elses girl"

Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men

sometimes I miss Twitter but then I remember once a person saw one of my posts and then commented that they had gotten permission from their maaori friend to be offended by it on their behalf

best book lists of the year in nz should be renamed to "all the books published in nz this year except for one random omission"

ey miss pantograoh punch sm

I think u should be shamed in the agora if u as a bookseller r publically recommending Donna tartts goldfinch in 2025.... .. any other inspired picks u got there......hey I bet no one has heard of the handmaid's tale yet

had a dream i was dating one of those terrifying alpha men & he asked me "who do u belong to" and I said "the state"

watched an episode of Alone where a guy four days in caught a catfish & then made fish head soup & when he ate it it made him gag then whenever he thought about it he would gag & the next day he tapped out bc of "mental health"

some recommendations for the current half price THWUP sale for books published before 2022 yeayah

my sister has a bf after a long terrifying casual dating era of bassists & men aspiring to be bassists & is discovering the joys of relaxed hikes, cafe breakfasts, hanging out with a person who wants to know things about u

every day i pray a vice article doesnt find me

being asked what ur blood quantum isnt offensive to me its like when a baby calls u ugly what am i supposed to do yell at someone who shits their pants every day

i might be nicer to peiple than i should be like why am i trying to unpack a stranger's guilt at the book signing

kia ora the scene form my book that is highlighted in this article contains sexual violence it's important we make the distinction between rape and sex bc users of violence will purposely try to blur that line rape is concerned with power - this act of violence is sexualised* but it is not sex

my sister has started to use AI in her messages to me (it's obvious) & admittedly it has made communicating w her easier

if i had a penis i would go to glory holes with small hats, feather boas or googly eyes stuck to my meat just to break the ice

the anthologies with Maaori titles are getting out of control like are u not embarrassed? not even half ur contributors are Maaori??? & ur pulling out te aka????

had the "talk" again today where my partner asks me to stop putting dead animals in boxes for him to find tbf i put a dead mouse in an old computer mouse box so it's on him

some people think of their cats as their babies, my cat is my flatmate

running my non binary venture at a loss for proof of concept

every month i lie in a ball writhing in pain for hours at a time & when i ask my Dr if i can pls have hysterectomy they say omg no u need to have atleast 2 babies - _-

saw someone use the grape emoji to describe the sexual violence in my book & i want to say please just say rape when you are talking about rape

im seriously begging everyone to read more than "the book of the year" u can read a book a month if u r a slow reader & ur just not???

notice my not subtle gesture at.....the ways of survival..... and what that might look like.........in an urban setting........ where you don't have easy access to food...............................

yes - and u will also see an influx of young people who will be exploited for cheap labour / accommodation which is v convenient for small business owners and slum lords 🤔

have I nailed it..?

Harriet Walter was sat a table away from me....... and I just noticed there is vomit in my hair..........

I remember in primary school reading animorphs for the first time & thinking a kid must have written it because there was no way an adult could have written that good a series

when will short lists and the long lists finally relate to height

i like that the paakehaa accent sounds like the speaker has too many teeth that's a fine thing

Last nite I tried to convince someone that the pope was a bouncer in the 40s in Argentina & they were like o sure he was I was like yeah it was the golden age of tango & they broke a chair on my head

I have three parking fines now can I petition the council to waive them on the basis that I'm just forgetful as shit

poorhara isn't a play on the word pōhara it's a diachronic change anyone who is accusing their cousins of stealing on fb spells it with an r

just heard thousands of eels tried to migrate to the ocean last night but misjudged the swell & have died sending my thoughts and prayers to the eel community today 🙏💭

when i see people calling barry keoghan ugly i remember someone saying i would look like him if i got lip filler

also happy trans visibility day to the trans People who are terrified of being visible bc ahhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

welp turns out i do have to be at the Ockhams to see if i get best first book should i go back to jester costume idea or a homage to mcr