Grok, X’s AI chatbot, is being used to sexualise women, children, and marginalized communities worldwide. Abuse is fast, systematic, & often escapes current laws. What can NZ do? What should NZ do? And what can you do? Check out the info in slides below 👇 (featuring @sanjanah.bsky.social) #nzpol

ICYMI, open access paper by Toby Newstead & me re #crisis #leadership, #gender & #virtues-based language use. We examine #Covid19 speeches by 12 women heads of govt, incl #JacindaArdern, to identify how to better lead through crisis. #nzpol #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

UN CERD warns NZ is backsliding on racial equality: Māori land, Tiriti commitments, hate speech, youth justice, health equity, and human rights institutions face serious risks.

Rainbow orgs have released a statement: “The banning of puberty blockers is an example of government overreach and political attacks on healthcare… it is an unprecedented and inherently discriminatory use of the Medicines Act to deny healthcare to a particular population on the basis of their sex”

#nzpol ICYMI

The 'few rotten apples' framing is a problem. Senior leaders have significant impact on organization culture, so the impact will go beyond the few directly involved in the cover up. It's better seen as a rot in the barrel problem, rooted in contempt for women. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The 'few rotten apples' framing is a problem. Senior leaders have significant impact on organization culture, so the impact will go beyond the few directly involved in the cover up. It's better seen as a rot in the barrel problem, rooted in contempt for women. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

JFC, yet another case of powerful men being protected & women not being believed. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...

#nzpol Check out these free, public online talks by some of my amazing colleagues at Massey... www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/t...

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852... You know you want to, good peeps of #nzpol

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852... You know you want to, good peeps of #nzpol

#nzpol Any good peeps feeling sick & ashamed about govt's moral failure to recognize Palestine statehood & condemn the genocide .. if you can, use your wallet to reclaim some agency. This govt does not represent me. Many agencies need our support.Today I chose MSF.

Shameful, weak, unprinicipled. Absolute disgrace. #nzpol NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#nzpol Recall the media & online hysteria in 2022 re Ardern as the 'divisive' leader of a 'failing' govt? Current govt clearly much worse but no such hysteria. White dudes in charge now, so they still get to be taken seriously. #sexism #misogyny www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

#nzpol Good peeps, you can help keep the pressure on govt & other parties by pledging your intention to vote only for those who make the return of fair pay equity legislation & funding for settlements an urgent priority if elected next year. www.together.org.nz/pay_equity_p...

Women's Day of Action: Rise up for Pay Equity #nzpol www.together.org.nz/women_s_day_...

Timeline cleanse, wholesome content for #nzpol theconversation.com/what-owning-...

#nzpol Have at it good peeps, maybe we can insert a spine into the govt our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

Harbour Bridge March postponed new route #FreePalestine

Anyone who is attending this in Auckland - heads up. Change of plan due to forecasted winds of up to 80 km/hour on the bridge tomorrow. Still going ahead but change of location #nzpol #auckland #kiwi

The hikoi over the bridge this Saturday is now starting from Onepoto Domain. #nzpol

These ever so manly men 'protecting' us women from.... oh, from men precisely like themselves who objectify cis women & are hateful bigots toward our trans sisters. Nash can f**k off back to nowheresville where he belongs & take his mates with him. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Join the historic march across the Auckland Harbour Bridge this Saturday 13 September Let this government know that we want them to sanction Israel for its crimes against humanity The usual hui and hikoi will also be happening in Ōtautahi #NZPol

Greenpeace activists this morning boarded the Talley's trawler 'Amaltal Columbia' to stop it from heading out to sea to bottom trawl the ocean floor. We're calling on the government to ban bottom trawling in the places where it does the most harm - take action NOW: greenpeace.nz/5k82yl #nzpol

#nzpol #sexism #patriachy #leadership I appreciate David Fisher's reporting on this - but the sub ed needs to be told there's no question mark needed in this headline. Fisher gives us multiple clear cut eg's of how sexism & patriarchal culture actually works 🧵 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...

Inside the Glass Cage: Online Misogyny in Aotearoa New Zealand - powerful exhibition open in Wellington til Monday 18th August, info at: teauahaevents.com/home/the-gla... #wellington #arts #women #wellington

#nzpol peeps, please check this out if you're in Wellington at any time before the 18th #misogyny #racism www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/new-exhibition-spotlights-the-real-world-impact-of-online-abuse-targeting-women-leaders/

#nzpol peeps, please check this out if you're in Wellington at any time before the 18th #misogyny #racism www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/new-exhibition-spotlights-the-real-world-impact-of-online-abuse-targeting-women-leaders/

Kia ora ano #nzpol peeps The other thing I'm part of that's happening in Wellington this week is an art exhibition exploring the lived experience of #women #leaders in #politics, #journalism & #academia who encounter #online #misogyny and/or #racism. www.teauahaevents.com/home/the-gla...

PM hesitant to recognise State until it's safe to do it Nation less hesitant to recognise absolute state of PM

Kia ora ano #nzpol peeps The other thing I'm part of that's happening in Wellington this week is an art exhibition exploring the lived experience of #women #leaders in #politics, #journalism & #academia who encounter #online #misogyny and/or #racism. www.teauahaevents.com/home/the-gla...

Kia ora #nzpol peeps This Thursday in Wellington, I'll be speaking as part of a #polsci panel on the Ardern govt, with my focus being her #crisis #leadership & issues of #gender. Free to attend, you just need to register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

#nzpol alert! Janine Hayward and I are hosting a public panel this week to highlight some of the findings from our recently published special issue on Jacinda #Ardern and the Sixth Labour Government, published in @politicalsciencenz.bsky.social. Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

Been reading some research today about how online trolling is associated with personality disorders of sadism and psychopathy ...and then thinking about the behavior we see from certain ministers on a regular basis... 😵 #nzpol

“132 years and one day after women secured the right to vote in Aotearoa, we are gathering again in strength and solidarity.” 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Women's Day of Action Saturday 20 September Nationwide 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Sign up to stay in the loop. www.together.org.nz/women_s_day_... Please share widely👇

Why UK recognition of a Palestinian state should not be conditional on Israel’s actions - hoping the AoNZ govt will pay heed to this: #nzpol theconversation.com/why-uk-recog...

Anna Rawhiti-Connell in @thespinoff.bsky.social exquisitely captures the arrogant, callous & contemptuous (not) #leadership of the current govt with this piece: #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-...

kia ora bsky whanau, a couple of things I'm involved in re #women #politics #leadership #Aotearoa #gender #sexism #misogny #nzpol that are coming up in Te Whanganui-a-tara/Wellington next month that I'd love you to come along & check out are as follows 1/2 www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...

File this in the big folder of "If You Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse Have We Got News For You", sub folder "The Recklessness And Cruelty Is The Point". #nzpol

It's so important to point out that the systematic harassment (by not only other politicians, but the gallopingly obvious disproportionate media witchhunts) of brown women politicians but lack of consequences for it - is killing our democracy.

Oh ffs, I broke a nail today, is Jacinda also to be blamed for that? #nzpol #scapegoating #misogyny www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/au...

Our Government does not have a debt or interest cost problem. Yet that belief and repeated statement of 'fact' is the driving force behind all the Government's actions. It is the Coalition's North Star. And it doesn't exist.

3,500 organic signatures in 4 days. People are tired of the constant bullying and belittling from this government. This is only the start. We deserve better from our country’s leaders. #nzpol Sign at our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

We only rate dogs. This is Chewbacca having a spa day. He's trying to relax. Please give him some privacy. 13/10

It's of comfort to see so many peeps here rightly condemning the racist sanctions imposed on TPM, but gawd, how do we get more to understand this? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...