Come work with me! 🎉 If you’re a DPA member and have thought about joining the National Executive Committee please get your nominations lined up as it closes this weekend! If you have been thinking about it but need a nominee please let me know ☺️

Great vibe in the room as the Belém Gender Action Plan is gavelled through with no objections! Woohoo! #COP30 #GAP #BelémGAP

It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special. A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!

Your wellness routine should include taking precautions to avoid multiple covid infections that damage your immune system, hope that helps. 🌟💕

Note the invitation to complain to the HRC about "discrimination on the ground of sex, including gender identity, gender expression and innate variations of sex characteristics" at the end. I will certainly be doing so.

happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it

'My mana reignited': Attendees leave world's largest indigenous education conference feeling inspired

One of the things cis women have long fought for bodily autonomy with are cries such as "get your laws off my body" & "my body, my choice" ... trans folks are no different. This is why the ban on puberty blockers for trans folks is so incredibly stupid and ideological. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

COP21 Paris, France COP22 Morocco COP23 Germany (Fiji Presidency) COP24 Poland COP25 Spain (Chile Presidency) COP26 Scotland COP27 Egypt COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan COP30 Brazil All but 2 COPs since the Paris Agreement have been Europe or Middle East and now COP31 will be Türkiye, not Aus-Pacific

It would be great if COP hosts really demonstrate they will have plenty of accommodation available...So when you get locked out of your apartment at 1am it’s not impossible to get an emergency hotel! Saved by the grace of the Indigenous grapevine tonight! 🙏🏼 Will finish my rant tomorrow 😴

It’s too early yet to know what to make of tonight’s news that Türkiye will physically host #COP31, with Australia as President & some partnership with the Pacific. But at least for my community, this is a really tough blow at a critical time & it will reduce our participation.

This one. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabil...

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary. The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with: “Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

This is genuinely so devastating. I'm so grateful to Alice for her sharing of wisdom and support and insight all while fighting for and with us all. It's an incalculable loss to the world. Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Rest in power, Ms Wong. What a privilege it was to have even your virtual presence in our lives.

I am so unbelievably gutted. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social I hope you knew how much you influenced & enabled so many of us in our disability justice journeys and how much we appreciated you. A true disabled oracle! Will fuck up the ableist bastards with extra gusto for you e hoa ✊🏼 #AbleismIsTrash

Losing Tinu last year and now Alice. I am heartbroken. There's been way too much loss in the disability community. So many people are now gone. Too many to list. Both Tinu and Alice both helped shape the person I am today. I wouldn't be alive without their help & support.

The trees are so big

Absolutely this. Christian nationalism is a risk to the Rainbow community, to women - to anyone who isn’t a privileged white cis man. NZ is moving quickly from taking selfies with some of the worst people in the world to implementing the same values and behaviour as policy - it can’t continue.

Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver: "Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution." A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.

Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent. Nothing more. Nothing less. Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent. It’s pretty simple. #nzpol

Our govt love fascism

Also useful to note that the money they spend on actual counselling has gone down despite their revenue increasing, which is explained by greater efficiency. If a charity that offers a counselling service has more money, then surely, they ought to be investing in expanding their counselling?

“Risk comes about when people and ecosystems and infrastructure are exposed to those hazards… when it has underlying weaknesses… so we need to think about what we can do to reduce that risk.” David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025

“As Ngāi Tahu we migrated south to Te Waipounamu… We have been adapting all our lives. I think it’s really inspiring as a young person to think back to our ancestors and how they have succeeded because we are all here today.” The awesome Thomas Blakie at #AF2025 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

This is great. Also, let’s do away with private election companies. They continue to do a garbage job and excluding Māori candidates from the booklet this year was unforgivable. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-...

Sounds similar to the narrative we heard from the Minister the other day #nzpol

“At SPREP we have developed model legislation that safeguards Indigenous Knowledge & recognises it as something to be protected and respected when it is used.” Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025

Professor Steve Ratuva opening the panel at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 reminding us of the critical time we are in for adaptation and rollbacks of Indigenous Rights.

“Indigenous peoples have lived through upheavals before… including ice ages and colonisation… our knowledge systems are built for adaptation.” Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 Indigenous Forum

“We recognise that Indigenous communities are already doing the adaptation work.” Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D Huson shares a vision for an Indigenous Climate Adaptation Network at the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social “It’s a living breathing community of relationship.” #AF2025

‪“We [Indigenous Peoples] are not asking to join the adaptation agenda - we ARE the adaptation agenda.”‬ ‪“If being Indigenous is to adapt then adaptation must become Indigenous.”‬ ‪Marama Royal at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social Indigenous Forum #AF2025‬

“We were the first responders… that’s what we do as Māori” Marama Royal speaking of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei response to the Auckland Anniversary Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle & the need for Māori leadership in the emergency management space to be recognised & formalised #AdaptationFutures2025

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fun fact: when you have Long Covid but can’t work you have to go on the Jobseeker benefit because GPs can’t say whether you’ll still have Long Covid in two years - so teens with chronic conditions are now conceivably navigating absolutely debilitating symptoms while also getting zero govt support 👍🫠

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

USA: Mask rules are returning to Bay Area health care settings from Nov 1 as COVID, flu, and RSV cases rise. Counties including Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz will require masks for workers, and in some cases patients and visitors, through spring.

no-one, certainly no-one in the public sector, could have predicted that the population would continue aging

Disabled Māori face higher rates of hardship, poor health, and exclusion. Huhana Hickey calls it what it is: poverty by design.

The govt’s plans to means test benefits for 18 & 19 yos will put disabled, queer, Māori & other marginalised young adults at risk. While I’m glad the disability rights angle of this issue has got traction (and was glad to speak to TVNZ) the Minister’s response was appalling. #nzpol

"calling parents to accountability" sounds like we're all a bunch of wastrels because we can't feed four adults (or more) on two adults' shitty wages. Infuriating #nzpol

When they signalled this in the budget we @dpanz.bsky.social raised concern because of the dangerous & detrimental position this also puts disabled, queer, and young adults experiencing abuse in. Absolutely wild that young *adults* are now forced to be financially tied to parents at 18 & 19yo.

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna "Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications" Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true