Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: submissions on Disability Support Services Bill close at 1pm tomorrow (Friday 12 June) thats earlier than usual Please write in opposition to it @emilywrites.co.nz has a good collation of resources, including links to @huhana.bsky.social @drbex.bsky.social writings

flashbanged by this fb memory of this article i didnt write but wish i had

oi i've done my submission there's 20 days left have you? (see the replies for some submission guides etc)

have awoken a memory from high school that in one of our three (??) sex ed classes they showed us Shane Dawson's sex ed video as like.. something to learn from? this video seems to have been scrubbed off the internet so presumably involved crimes

one of the thrills of being an artist is that if you're lucky it's a very short period of joy and success moderated almost instantly by excessive and drastic periods of suicidality and watching your peers do much better than you

i turn 30 on sept 20 i am looking for 30 things/experiences to do (that ideally do not cost the earth) that i have never done in the month leading up to it help me

brooooo we should make a sex tape but only if our light sources are 1000k-3000k

admire my new shirt please

if you think you're having an awesome month, I've had my period three times in 35 days so I reckon I've got you beat

happy pride month may we all get gayer and more trans out of spite

it is really awesome and sick to have a brain that whenever something goes wrong defaults to "apocalyptic suicidality" and by awesome I mean it sucks

getting lots of complements on one of my recent fics about how the writing about hypermobility seems particularly immersive and real buddy i bet you can't guess why

Arts, Culture and Heritage must save $36.4m over the next 4 years. HOW? How can we save any more in an industry that is already bled dry, with artists themselves providing the biggest subsidies so that kiwis can experience our own stories, participate in the arts and make great new works?

TAX THE RICH

NZCTU x VUWSA budget day protest on at parli right now

new budget has us losing 27 mil from the ministry of culture and heritage im gonna walk into the sea

did i turn 29, become an omega and start pumping out pheromones what is HAPPENING

all power to those who wear it, it's not for me, but i wish there were more queer tees that give "going to a kink thing this weekend" instead of "really sad buzzfeed isn't what it was in 2016"

i would have perhaps liked to have been warned that the current antibiotic im taking this week causes NEON GREEN PISS

I have no idea how anyone wears a bra with an underwire! I am wearing the right size! They just hurt! They're so irritating!! I can't do it! I have no idea how anyone manages!

Submissions are open for the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill and I strongly suggest you send in a submission against it. My thoughts are below. Here is the submission link: www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak... Here is some excellent reading: qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...

As a committee, we've written to every MP in Welly about the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill, and we encourage you to do the same. Plenty of organisations like InsideOUT or Qtopia have more info you can use, and letters to Parliament are free qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...

Did you know it will cost you the price of an envelope, paper and ink to write a letter to your MP? [MP's Name] Freepost Parliament Private Bag 18888 Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160 Write your letter, put it in a postbox, it will get to them. For free.

only the goodest of boys can torch their comedy fest operator reputation by getting sick both weeks they're rostered on life is a prison get me out of here

NZ artists that do enby clothing? I wish to patronage but not random international folk Help

Seeing a lot of support for trans and gender diverse people on here today, which is lovely, but speaking for myself I don't need you to tell me. I need you to tell the MPs who are making our lives materially harder.

got an influx of terfs in my mentions since i tweeted/posted about the bill yesterday very very very concerned about the state of my genitalia and what i've got going on down there and anyway if you want to know the state of my bits you should ask your mum

Not man or woman but a secret third thing (caffeinated)

Sorry, National MPs, history will judge you by the vote you cast, not the sad face you made while doing it

man I feel fuckin ill around this bill stuff the wider context is obviously horrifying but like it scares the hell out of me for me, my trans whanau and the youths I work with even excluding the gender, im intersex, there's no biological binary for me! I can never be correct in these people's eyes

I have two messages after listening to the first reading of the Definitions of Woman and Man amendment bill tonight. Firstly, for the trans community: We have lived through worse, we have had fewer rights. We will work just as hard as before to keep, or to reclaim, those rights. Kia kaha.

fuck OFF

new zealand has two types of cities long cities wide cities anything else is a town

17 weeks since I snapped my leg, we are so fuckin back

traintraintraintraintrain

the rub they dont talk about in all the sexy spicy d/s novels is having to go places the next day where everything aches and your skin is tingling and sounds are too loud and lights are too bright

good evening to hypermobility ehlers-danlos syndrome it's the bane of my life daily but very useful for two Very Specific Reasons

two people whose careers i care a lot for (also they're great people) are in this: elliott and maria i will not be watching as i dont really watch tv but u should

if any of you were wondering, the current twitter discourse is: is cunt a slur (not how i practise it) and is bdsm misogynist (not how i practise it)

this mother's day im pretty thankful to still have a mum dont know if I will still have one in a year but for the interim I stay thankful

two months today since dad died weird!!! weird weird weird

my mum keeps on saying that id be a really good mum which outside the OH MY GOD NO PLEASE SPAY ME of it all, it's like no? I'm a broke artist who frequently does 16 hour shifts, I don't like commitment and I do like disappearing into the forest at random - what about that suggests "good parenting"

streets are saying i am in tamaki makaurau next weekend if any friends wish to meet or any foes wish to fight

NOT CANCER just 20+ ovarian cysts lol lmao (ow)

especially stoked to be Not Pregnant this month but i sure wish Not Pregnant didn't come with what feels like a violent and foul curse from the gods for having the hubris of being Not Pregnant

having a blast

back in da theatre

love getting emails that are like "we've created a community, an experience, a whole new way of living" you are My Bank

idk man if your "all bodies welcome" performance dance class has me as the only person there who's over a size 8 then maybe you're not necessarily doing the right community mahi

a chill is sweeping across the motu, now is the time to get your offers in, im hunting for someone to let me crawl inside them like a tauntaun and hibernate for the winter