Kerryn Pollock
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Kerryn Pollock
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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]
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
February 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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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
February 9, 2025 at 11:46 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...
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
Reposted by Kerryn Pollock
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....
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January 29, 2025 at 5:33 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
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
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