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Tess Maxwell

@tessmaxwell.bsky.social

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Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her) toitū te tiriti & free Palestine

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Mar 8

My critique of TERF appropriations of Broadsheet (NZ) magazine - couldn't organise open access so please dm for link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Cool articles from way back when’: appropriations and reanimations of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet

This article addresses ‘transition’ within feminist media activism by exploring how archival material is reanimated and mobilized within contemporary forms of online activism. Recent scholarship ex...

www.tandfonline.com

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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 27d

OK this latest press release from the ICC has seriously pissed me off.

The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women.

Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂)

www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...

This marks the first time in tournament history that a Women’s Cricket World Cup will be officiated entirely by women, a feat made possible by the ICC’s work across many years to support, elevate and empower women in cricket.

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 10d

1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in!

raukawa moana looking almost cosy

from archives nz:

ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...

1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa nz

Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 12d

Shame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · May 19

Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site

hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...

Taiaroa Lighthouse

Collection: Otago Daily Times Collection | Read the full record details for Snapshop Photo: Taiaroa Lighthouse

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WomenAotearoaNZ @weavinghouse.bsky.social · May 14

“As for so-called "civility"-this is 1 more way wealthy white women silence dissent. I refuse to be "civil" in the face of incivil policies & legislation that target working class women. This is class war & deserves to be treated as such. Civility has no place in this attack on the working classes.”

Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · May 14

Denying working women equitable wages is, in fact, a very cunty thing to do.

The pay equity amendment legislation looks like, sounds like, and reads like a very anti-women, anti-feminist bill. It's very cunty and so are its architects and supporters.

#NZpol #CuntGate #PayEquity

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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · May 14

This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu!
#toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori
#NZPol

Colour tile:

BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
UNPRECEDENTED
PUNISHMENT
RAWIRI • HANA • DEBBIE SET TO BE SUSPENDED FROM PARLIAMENT ON TUESDAY 20H MAY
21
DAYS
Rawiri Debbie
7
DAYS
Hana
maori
BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS

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La Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · May 6

Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent".
iwpr.org/wp-content/u...

iwpr.org

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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · May 6

"White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers”
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · May 6

#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...

www.beehive.govt.nz

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · May 5

the stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far

so tropical/shades ✨️

www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...

Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · May 3

Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin

Protestors gathered in support of trans rights

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · May 3

Gathering in Ōtepoti Dunedin to support trans rights - a colourful crowd under grey skies

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · Apr 24

Oh hey Erica Stanford lied to us again, the "replacement" relationship and sexuality guidelines have removed all mention of gender diversity, don't include menstruation until year 7, and erase Māori / Pasifika perspectives, so get your submission typing fingers ready insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...

Make an urgent submission on the draft Relationship and Sexuality Education Framework today – before submissions close 9 May 2025 - InsideOUT |

Changes are coming to Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools and we’re concerned about what has been proposed by the Government. We believe the draft RSE framework as it stands, is dee...

insideout.org.nz

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Apr 23

The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read:

"sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction
between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience"

(Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)

Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Apr 23

Always in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa.

thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...

A trans history of gay liberation in New Zealand

Trans women – particularly Māori trans women – were 'the very first freedom fighters in the gay movement'.

thespinoff.co.nz

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 22

The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say

Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.

Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.

The end.

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Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Apr 17

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Apr 20

Brewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi

One person standing in front of a glacier

Two people in front of a red tramping hut

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Apr 19

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years!

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD.

📷 by me

#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology

My photo shows the ruins of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a doorway at ground level and narrow rectangular window openings above on the upper three levels. It stands 15.8 m high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower, for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro of which a small portion can be seen in my photo. The Pharos is dated 1st century - early 2nd century AD and is one of a pair originally built on the headland flanking each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). It now stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Apr 9

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Apr 6

'Argo' is also the ship from Jason & the golden fleece & is derived from Greek ᾰ̓ργός which apparently gives us both shining/swift & idle - would love an etymology person to explain!

Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Apr 6

Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954

📷 K V Bigwood

From archives nz:

ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · Apr 3

#nzpol

This seems a little bit important.

"On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation."

Submissions due 30 April
www.health.govt.nz/publications...

Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation | Ministry of Health NZ

This discussion document considers options for modernising New Zealand’s regulation of the health workforce. It supports public consultation on this topic.

www.health.govt.nz

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Mar 30

(I always forget carrier pigeons were real)

Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · Mar 30

My favorite anecdote from Frances Walsh's write up about the 1909 keeper & his son:

"Pigeons sometimes landed on the lighthouse, after losing their bearings during delivery missions or races. James managed to return them to their owners, if he could read their leg bands"