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This weekend I was granted life membership in Auckland Pride, only the third person to be recognised like this. I'm honoured, but I was recognised for being one prominent spokesperson for the radical vision of what Pride could be - not because I'm an individual, but because I'm part of a collective.

When I'm giving a lecture and I can see that people are getting bored or checking out, I just start telling jokes or swearing so they get pulled back in. I've been really dragging on this part of my book so I've started just doing the same thing and writing down how I actually think about this stuff

USA TODAY BEST-SELLER BLACK FLAME, debuting higher on the list than CUCKOO ever made it God, I'm so grateful to all of you. Thank you for making it possible for me to have this career I've been dreaming about since I was fourteen.

the hardest part of being a precarious academic worker is that you need to have research outputs to get a big girl job, but in order to get a big girl job, you must write job applications instead of working on research outputs

I know I'm stressed because I want to make people come over and play Tomb of Horror with me while I drink wine and disintegrate them

I really really can't recommend this highly enough. You should read this.

Americans, now is the time to read about the great Hōne Heke and the Kororāreka flagstaff.

As our press spokesperson @cannibality.bsky.social explained on this Marae panel, the FBI Wellington office must close, because it will further subordinate us to American capitalist imperialism through it advising New Zealand Police to more effectively repress Māori, Pasifika, workers and the left.

watching @cannibality.bsky.social put her hand on the table and lean in *immediately* as the FBI post was raised made me crack tf up

I'll be on TVNZ Marae some time after 10 to discuss the government's programme of voter disenfranchisement, including the outrageous ban on incarcerated voters. You can tune in here: tvnz.co.nz/shows/marae

Our press spokesperson @cannibality.bsky.social will be speaking at this rally against the FBI's new office in Wellington tomorrow at 1PM at the US Consulate on how the office is part of the American capitalist imperialist regime's efforts to export their policing model to ensure Pacific domination.

The American spy base opening in Wellington is a backdoor to American imperialism controlling our country. We must reject our comprador government's attempts to tie us into the American empire. Join us tomorrow at 1pm outside the US consulate and show we want these spies out!

frantically googling "rabid dog euthanisation techniques" but i'll get shot in the back of the head by the CIA if i try any of these

I can't remember if I read in Stone or Serano the framing that doctors wrote books about how to distinguish the few worthy trans people from the unworthy crowd and then had a profession-wide meltdown when they discovered that trans people can read books

I've been listening to this black metal band and their logo is so good I had to decrypt it. their name is "Keys to the Astral Gates and Mystic Doors" and goddamn if their logo doesn't turn out to actually say all that.

Tamatha Paul was completely right about the police. We wrote this article to prove it: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

my partner is like a cat when she gets sick (disappears, does not want to be perceived, will refuse care) and our daughter and I are both like dogs (whining, flopping around the house, chewing the furniture)

me vs. the energy I am trying to bring

alright, that's enough of being a public intellectual now. if it's alright with the slavering nazi horde i'd like to just be emmy again for a minute. can i give that a go or is it just gonna be people accusing me of getting molested as a kid and being a pedophilic sex trafficker for a bit

hanging out for the clock to start on america's century of humiliation. I can't wait for an eight nation alliance to sack the white house and take chunks of statuary back home to put in our museums

I'm so tired of making moves in silence bro

I'm sick so I'm home alone while Kendra and our daughter are away. going mad from loneliness and constructing a surrogate family from household goods if anyone has any tips 🙏🏽

every six months I'm like "I'm gonna be butch now" but this is about as hard as I actually manage to ever commit to that

someone reminded Winston Peters that he's the fucking foreign minister and he was like First of all, I want to acknowledge the beautiful nation of México

I don't mind if we do Narodism for a little bit tbh

Mao Zedong teaches us that political power grows from the barrel of a doohickey

it's crazy how much more tattoos you can see yourself affect your self& perception than very obvious tattoos that you can't see. I still feel very much like Woman With A Big Arm Tattoo despite the fact that strangers sometimes hold eye contact with my chin when speaking to me

ICC should be allowed to declare people outlaws who can be k worded without repercussions

In the UK for a conference, flying home now, then next week we'll be headed to Wellington for the Toitū Te Tiriti protest at parliament. I'm doing so much travel I keep running into Vijay Prashad 😭

I wonder what my bluesky personality is like. cause on twitter I am doing PR. and in real life I am tgirl Mao Zedong. so I wonder what my whole deal is here

Did something happen to make so many people follow me this week? I'm pleased you're all here but how are you guys even seeing this account!

I am going to keep harping on this: the current available evidence about the Hugo omnishambles does not suggest ANY FUCKING INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER by Chinese censors, and insisting that it must really truly be the case regardless of the evidence we do have is FUCKING SINOPHOBIC.

I am strangely soothed to know that I am not the first beautiful Māori woman to have an unnecessarily European first name and a Māori surname

like hundreds of reactionary chuds are You Will Never Be A Womanposting about me on twitter except 1. nothing they're saying has any relation to my actual life lol and 2. I am well aware that I am a hot transsexual. so like now what man

I found a bunch of my old art, miraculously preserved for ten years (!) on the university's servers. I was quite young and so these are all self-obsessed self-portraits, but it was interesting to remember I used to do this. It's definitely a part of myself I've abandoned now!

Is the world ending or have you forgotten to change your estrogen patch: a trans femme adventure

another teaching year is starting and now I'm a lecturer in criminology. I will use this meme again and if nobody laughs I will end it all

AITU is a decolonial communist reading group on the University of Auckland city campus committed to studying the horrors of capitalism to help guide our work in community organisations. We're starting with the chapter "Concerning Violence" from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

18 months ago i returned from maternity leave to take up a fixed-term position as a lecturer in sociology. i put this meme up on a slide and not a single student laughed. somehow, despite my many despairs and agonies, another teaching year has come to an end.

finished my phd lol

New short story about blood and guts in a Denny's bathroom www.otherstrangeness.com/2023/11/07/b...

Please vote for my friend Mokotron in the BFM top 10! He's a very fucking cool electronic musician who uses traditional Māori instruments in his work, we gotta get him over the line: 95bfm.com/top10

“‘ From the river to the sea’ may indeed rub some people the wrong way, but the term is in wide use, including mainstream Jewish use. We contend that the Jewish Council is policing language much as Israel polices its spacial divisions to preserve its privilege & power.” ajv.org.nz/2023/11/06/f...

the Israeli government has murdered 10,000 people in Gaza, which it has held under illegal blockade for nearly two decades. These people have been colonised, starved, and massacred. Arguing the semiotics of 'from the river to the sea' is a way to distract from the killing and ensure it continues.

sometimes beautiful women on the internet are interesting and this means they are completely swamped by the dullest men in history

irrevocably changing how your face looks is a really good way of giving your life a pretty clear before and after. I think in this era I'm trying to be a bit less of a fuck-up. also obviously i'm trying to be much hotter

just got jumpscared by a photo of me from 2 years ago, before i got my moko kauae and when i was still straightening my hair