ALRANZ is proud to announce that our Co-President, Alma De Anda is a list candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ! ALRANZ fully supports Alma's campaign & we're proud that she is running to be a fierce advocate for bodily autonomy, human rights, and the environment.

Happy International Working Women’s Day to all. Paid or unpaid we all work.

No Jack, tell us how you really feel

This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]

They don't do Facism for Dummies because it's all for dummies

We welcome abstracts that speak to the themes in this call- please circulate @lizbeddoe.bsky.social @carlenefirmin.bsky.social @cynokpokiri.bsky.social @jofinch.bsky.social

The fact the current Govt is full of racist, misogynist climate denying, abusive regressives who attack women they feel threatened by isn’t helping. It’s patriarchial misogny in action, amplified by Govt MPs, & other scared men stuck in adolescence in a society that doesn’t demand they grow up.

Man, Du Bois had some bangers, but for me, it doesn't get much better than his scathing indictment of the "Christianity" of the United States. Certainly this was all true of the nation in his lifetime. But in my lifetime, his criticisms have never felt so true of the nation right now.

The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

We may be an ocean away, but there are many of us in Aotearoa quietly cheering on every one of you Americans who are standing up, speaking out & taking action today against your govt's latest acceleration towards full-on fascism & war. Solidarity & strength from the deep south of the planet. #nzpol

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

I am asking #NewZealand to please check their garden shed, outbuilding or sheds for for a missing Prime Minister, last seen.. uh .. somewhere Please contact authorities if found, do not spook him, dont worry he isnt a danger unless you are an economy #nzpol

Oh to be a cat and blissfully unaware of the state of things.

Don't copy paste an Imperial response like other world "leaders" who are abandoning their independent foreign policy to cuddle up to Trump. Have some moral courage Luxon!

Having literally worked as a ministerial press secretary over the holiday shutdown before: there is no excuse for this, whoever's on duty has all the emergency/personal phone numbers they need to get the right people online to issue a prompt response to an international incident of this enormity

a) I'm really not sure these rates are accurate. b) The reason NZ's rate is so high is so we can as all get on planes and fly over where we are our country used to be. Marvel at the Act of God which moved us off the coast of Perth.

More AI bullshit. Fake books and weird mash-ups, the trademarks of AI.

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

“From Bondi, we must learn Jewish and Palestinian safety and liberation are intertwined” #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-1...

Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.

Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Long time social work academic and activist investigated for standing up for Palestine. www.ifsw.org/ifsw-educati...

Funny what people reserve their outrage for. A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood? B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane? Decisions, decisions ....

sensational

Luxon on RNZ equating billionaires with hard work. There is not one LivingWageEmployer on the rich list, the govt has stolen the chance of decent pay from 300,000+ actual hard working women, & the PM wants to celebrate the folks who don’t want to pay their fair share of tax or decent wages.

“If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the “Māori problem”, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world” #Nzpol Unsettled Bliss - whiteness in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Not paying authors and other creative artists for use of their work will kill them! 💀 ⚰️ ⚱️ Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!

You can’t make this up!! Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules. This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all #WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori

#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...

Part of what really disturbs me about the sudden end of pay equity is the democratic implications - National did not say before the election that they would do this. It is now being passed under urgency, the same day as announcement, with no public input. NZers quite simply have not had a say.

The government will save billions through this decision. But we should be clear that this is money that has come directly out of the pockets of low-paid female workers. I didn’t think the National Party would stoop this low to pay for it’s tax cuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Trump Adm texts Barnard profs, asking if they are Jewish “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Debbie Becher, a Jewish associate professor of sociology at Barnard www.jpost.com/diaspora/art...

I have used them a few times and they’re amazing! Quick and very good! Please help if you can!

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Ms Slater encapsulating terfy thinking by defining women by some ludicrous tradwife criteria.

Jeff Bezos has more money than any human could spend and he's just wasting it on planet-wrecking joyrides to space while people on Earth starve. Why don't we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the #ClimateCrisis? #TaxTheSuperRich