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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 7

Are you looking for designer clothes? Want yr $ to benefit us?

❤️ ppl have given range of designer 👗 + 🛍️ to sell on ….check out silent auction form + get bids in…

Bids close 8pm 21 Mar + we email you following week. Payment by 28 Mar. Any ? to [email protected]

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The Aunties Silent Auction

Please use this form to complete your bids in our silent auction. The highest bid will will win the item. Some items (art prints and Aunties Undies we have more than one, and this will go to the highe...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Jul 10

Sorry! My number is 027 522 8115 - or email [email protected]

The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Jul 9

Kia Ora community. We’re doing a blanket drive at the mo- whanau women won’t use heaters/heat pumps bc $ solution is blankets. WH has sale on www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/living-co-...

Text me 02753228115 and I’ll give you my address to deliver to.

Ty x

Living & Co Ultra Soft Plush Blanket Black | The Warehouse

Buy Living & Co Ultra Soft Plush Blanket at The Warehouse

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Jul 9

Living & Co Ultra Soft Plush Blanket Black | The Warehouse

Buy Living & Co Ultra Soft Plush Blanket at The Warehouse

www.thewarehouse.co.nz

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great T-shirt, my love

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · May 7

If everyone could please repost this and share it on ur social media please….

Until we figure out how to link it from our website main page…

This is absolutely everything the women need right now - furniture etc…
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Wants and Needs

This is our current list of wants and needs (May 2025). Please message Jackie at [email protected] and she'll put you directly in contact with the woman who needs whatever you have. We are ab...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · May 2

This morning I had two very special visitors.
And they coincidentally came pretty much at the same time.

It was such a special and joyous thing. Bc the aunties whānau women v rarely see each other offline.

These photos are used with their express permission.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 24

Clementine Fraser is a history teacher and scholar.
She wrote this piece yday -long form - about our plunging into fascism. What it looks like. What history teaches us. Pls read it and share it.

clementinefraser.com/2025/04/24/w...

Warnings from the past

I wish people knew more history Every year I teach about Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia. I teach about Slavery in the USA and the evils of segregation. I teach about the long impa…

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 23

My friend Clem is a history teacher and scholar.
She’s written this astounding piece which draws direct correlation btw the Nazis and what’s happening right now….

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See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 23

And I’d add this.

If you’re against all this anti trans bullshit, you need to speak out. Do it for the kids. So many trans kids frightened right now.

Some of them will have loving families, some will not.

I think they need to hear your voices. I think that’s important.

Just a challenge x

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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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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 5

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I’m just telling you this, because it’s incredibly hard not to be frustrated. Civilians who haven’t had experience I have won’t know what to do, will give up. You just have to keep trying. You just have to keep listening. You just have to keep loving.
Nothing changes until they change it.

The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 5

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She says, I’m exhausted. I tell her if he smashes this phone, we can’t replace it again. She’s just bought a new laptop. He will likely smash that too. If he does that, she says, it’s over. She’s not ready.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 5

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My strong advice is to call police for breach of PSO that’s already in place. I don’t think she will. We’ve had the same conversation 1000 times. And I know we likely will have it 1000 more. Until she’s ready, nothing changes.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 5

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One of the auntie’s Whānau women in abusive rship. It’s been a yr but he indicated v early on that he was abusive.
She messages me that he smashed her phone, the 2nd one.
She comes to see me, we talk 2 hrs.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Apr 1

This was just a general GP and emergency clinic, not hers, but I know she has a good relationship with her one. I just get sensed by the lack of knowledge around trauma considering how many people carry it around.

The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 31

4/4 so if you’re a Dr, pls do not attempt to pacify with talk of mindfulness and walks. Ppl with severe anxiety, whether through trauma or not, require more than glib surface solutions.
In this case, trauma is carried in the body. And pushing through isn’t helpful.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 31

3/4 She will see her own GP tomorrow. And finally discuss medication that can at least make her functional again. Take the edge off.
She has “chill pills” in the meantime.
And is relieved bc now she knows that all her trigger managing strategies can’t touch the anxiety right now.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 31

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As we wait, I hold her tight. Stroke her hair. She rests her head on my bosom.

They do testing.
It’s “just anxiety”.

The DR does what most drs do.

Suggests mindfulness breathing + walks on the beach.

I respectfully tell her what’s what.
That CPTSD is not long term improved by such things.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Trauma stays in the body.

This morning she messages to ask me to take her to the medical clinic. She has been super anxious for a while. Overwhelmed. Tried all her strategies. Nothing works. Can’t breathe. Nausea. Dizziness. She’s scared. Thinks she will die.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · Mar 21

I haven’t seen her in person for over a year.
Major depression. Anxiety. CPTSD kicking her arse. A lot of kids, both hers and whangaied. An older teen who externalises his pain and anger in harmful ways.
But since last yr she’s been seeing an ACC accredited therapist.
And that is huge.