The beauty, delicacy, formalism and almost intimacy of all the work struck me—especially in relation to how it carried and conveyed its message—one of politics, society, identity. [...]
**The time has come for the collection of high quality gender identity data**, where people of all genders can identify as they wish and be counted. Statistics New Zealand needs to ensure that no New Zealander remains invisible. [...]
The context of this city in 2016 is irremovable from earthquake recovery, but the tone of that context has moved from shock and mourning to exploring the potential of the rebuild as well as frustration with that process. [...]
While being visibly queer can be a threat to ourselves, it is also a threat to the normative. [...]
Sexology’s relationship with homosexuality is more ambiguous and complex than a simple and clear-cut categorisation into the homo/hetero binary. [...]
Perhaps what we need is a new *L Word*; one filled so thoroughly with minority representations that we no longer are the minority; one that does not utilise our representations to justify harmful normative ideals. [...]
Written for an essay/blog assessment in a sociology of pop culture course at the University of Auckland in September 2015. As I occupy the [...]
Foucault states that state racism “does make the relationship of war – ‘if you want to live, the other must die’ – function in a way that is completely new and that is quite compatible with the exercive of biopower”. The ‘completely new’ way he references is normative biopolitical genocide. [...]
