Kerryn Pollock
@kerrynpollock.bsky.social
Queer historian & historian of queer lives. Works @ Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, views my own etc.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/kerryn-pollock
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[Banner: Wedlock: A Drag Show, 2024. Credit: Kiah DeRose]
https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/kerryn-pollock
https://www.pridenz.com/tags/7981.html
[Banner: Wedlock: A Drag Show, 2024. Credit: Kiah DeRose]
Removal of trans history from the Stonewall heritage listing is truly dystopian. If this nonsense comes to NZ I will fight it forever #akeakeake #aslongasittakes
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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February 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Removal of trans history from the Stonewall heritage listing is truly dystopian. If this nonsense comes to NZ I will fight it forever #akeakeake #aslongasittakes
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Join me and performance artist Vixen Temple as we traverse Katherine Mansfield’s sapphic writing as part of Wellington Pride Festival 2025
#queerheritage #queerhistory
Join me and performance artist Vixen Temple as we traverse Katherine Mansfield’s sapphic writing as part of Wellington Pride Festival 2025
#queerheritage #queerhistory
February 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
www.katherinemansfield.com/event/the-ma...
Join me and performance artist Vixen Temple as we traverse Katherine Mansfield’s sapphic writing as part of Wellington Pride Festival 2025
#queerheritage #queerhistory
Join me and performance artist Vixen Temple as we traverse Katherine Mansfield’s sapphic writing as part of Wellington Pride Festival 2025
#queerheritage #queerhistory
@thespinoff.bsky.social can you pls investigate Julian Wilcox’s laugh? It’s making RNZ’s Waitangi Day coverage go off. You did a prelim in 2020 www.facebook.com/thespinofftv...
8.8K views · 118 reactions | How can you not love Julian Wilcox's laugh? | Who knew election policy debates could be so crack-up?
(From Te Kōwhiringa 2020, the RNZ and PMN Māori Policy Debate – watch...
Who knew election policy debates could be so crack-up?
(From Te Kōwhiringa 2020, the RNZ and PMN Māori Policy Debate – watch here:...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@thespinoff.bsky.social can you pls investigate Julian Wilcox’s laugh? It’s making RNZ’s Waitangi Day coverage go off. You did a prelim in 2020 www.facebook.com/thespinofftv...
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How a failure of the imagination opens the door to privatisation
How a failure of the imagination opens the door to privatisation
When public services are failing, it's easy to look to privatisation. But that doesn't mean we should....
thespinoff.co.nz
January 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
How a failure of the imagination opens the door to privatisation
This is a good read. Trump’s executive orders do not and cannot change the existing laws protecting LGBTQ+ rights. Normally executive orders direct policy; these ones are ‘also glorified press releases designed to create confusion and chaos’. tinyurl.com/3tt9s98b @autostraddle.bsky.social
What Will Trump's Anti-Trans "Gender Ideology Extremism" Executive Orders Actually Do?
Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Act" Executive Order is a doozie. But its implications aren't as immediate or permanent...
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January 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is a good read. Trump’s executive orders do not and cannot change the existing laws protecting LGBTQ+ rights. Normally executive orders direct policy; these ones are ‘also glorified press releases designed to create confusion and chaos’. tinyurl.com/3tt9s98b @autostraddle.bsky.social
First post: a love letter to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender, a fab treasure trove of queer history. Even little Aotearoa NZ is found there. This is an ad from Out! Magazine June/July 1982 for Auckland's Empire Hotel, a queer-friendly venue in the 80s #queerheritage @galedh.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
First post: a love letter to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender, a fab treasure trove of queer history. Even little Aotearoa NZ is found there. This is an ad from Out! Magazine June/July 1982 for Auckland's Empire Hotel, a queer-friendly venue in the 80s #queerheritage @galedh.bsky.social