As some who has a gender studies degree I was able to understand that post, though I did need to read it twice, but yeah I've totally read sentences like that in gender studies articles and study material.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

NZ Human Rights Commission: “It is a clear breach of their human rights and will cause unnecessary harm and distress to vulnerable young people”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

I really wish the left wing parties talking about "free GP appointments" would at least get in touch with the College of Primary Health Care Nurses, because they're really missing a huge part of the problem by only centring GPs in their discussions, policies, and rhetoric.

The Hokotehi Moriori trust lead New Zealand’s first Ta Wik’ a Ta Rē Moriori, a , sparking questions as to why it has taken so long.

Fish woman friday? God I wish it was friday

Ngā mihi nui ki @tepaatimaori.bsky.social ki te tautoko - it means the world for our communities to see such strong, open support. I wish we saw Labour and the Greens making these commitments on their main comms channels too, rather than MP pages or interest group channels.

If you disabled NSFW filters on here but still can't see people's posts, remember to dig further into Advanced > Bluesky Moderation Service and set this specific "cartoon" NSFW filter to Off as well because why make things easy when they can be convoluted

Because it's still #WIPWednesday somewhere here's another taste of my recent #Octavia and #Loona sexting fic that I've been working on (Aged up and in an AU where Stolas and Blitz never met each after that one day as kids). Octavia is writing a story for Loona. Context: Loona is drunk in this fic.

Yet more Xena x Callisto from my patreon.com/laurenknight i may be obsessed 🫣

the three tabs i always have open

PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news

the problem with austerity is eventually you run out of other ministry’s funding

British Medical authorities have condemned the approach taken by the transphobic UK Government! I hope NZ Medical Authorities condemn NZ attack on their expertise too. #NZpol

we need people to call this what it is - social murder no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves

Happy international lesbian day 💖 #pixelart #ドット絵

🩷 #illustration

I still remember the day I posted this drawing on Twitter and someone QRTed saying "I hate how porn artists draw boobs it looks so unrealistic" God forgive people for having big boobs, right? 😭 the fuck....

Nightmare

The @theguardian.com runs with "tensions rise", to describe what is in fact unilateral US aggression against a country that poses zero threat to the US or to anyone else.

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What secrets would the blacklight reveal about you? 💖

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

Art by • Atomcyber

that's oomf!!

Willis cancelled IREX because the final cost was going to be $3bn Ferries that are critical for goods transport. $4bn for a tunnel so politicians can get to the airport faster? And that’s before the costs escalate as they always do. Sounds pretty dumb to me.

ISO article - #Uber vs its drivers #nzpol iso.org.nz/2024/03/21/u...

ISO was proud to stand with #Uberdrivers during their long legal battle for the minimum employment rights. Today #Uber lost in the Supreme Court. If the govt proceeds with planned law changes to annul this Supreme Court decision, it must pay the political price #nzpol union.org.nz/govt-must-re...

I love this image

FENZ restructure poses 'tremendous human cost, union says

If you're in need of a lovely sweet animated found family story, check out Ernest & Celestine! The English dub version is available free here: tubitv.com/movies/64508...

Comm 🌙

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

NZers have a variety of different positions on capitalism, from burn it all down, to reform and regulate. But the public largely agrees the extremist deregulatory 1980s agenda of corporate rule has failed and is unwanted in the 21st C. Media openly promotes ACT/TPU/NZI flogging this dead horse.

it's the best day of her life

woman falling for a misunderstood creature is truly such a peak trope. especially if you turn it yuri

The Govt's rationing speclialist (aka MSD) is overheating trying to constrain benefit spending, but the number of people on a working-age benefit continues to sail way above forecasts. We are watching a permanently scarring event here. Grim.

'Painfully easy': Why more Kiwis are choosing to go to Australia

Here's the thing. If someone is saying 'they're relationship is sisterly/brotherly/familial' as a repudiations against shipping two characters, the perfect argument against that reading is usually then to follow up with 'Then where's the incest?' Because be assured that if those characters -

Commission for @kradeiz.bsky.social 🫦🦇

"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

Always worth bringing back up that a big part of why evopsych became such a thing was that Jeffrey Epstein was bankrolling it through academic donations

“The world we live in today is shaped by the struggles of the past. The class fighters of #Fiji are an important part of our political whakapapa. We can take inspiration from the boldness & unity of the Fijian workers in 1959, & from the #solidarity of NZ dock workers” iso.org.nz/2025/11/12/w...

#WIPWednesday Because it's still Wednesday somewhere, let's have a touch more aged up Gummi Bears fic, but this time an honest to fucking god smut fic featuring Calla and Sunni. Specifically the part before the smut starts, where basically Calla realises that she thinks Sunni is hot.

te papa has been restructuring over and over for two decades now and it hasn’t fixed anything yet

In case Alex's post is too subtle APOLOGISE TO TAMATHA PAUL THIS INSTANT YOU COWARDS