Kia ora! I do a podcast every two weeks, and in the interests of inclusivity Jasmin Taylor (@kiwicurly) runs the script through an AI and then I edit it so the show is accessible for deaf/hard of hearing people. This week I talk to an ex-Fundamentalist and two teachers about…

The following is an extract from the PostingCast Episode 16 where we invited two trans men, a trans woman and a cis woman to talk about their experiences at the Kellie-Jane Keen-Minshull protest in Tamaki-makau-rau and other events in Pōneke and Ōtautahi. …

The Albert Park Band Rotunda was constructed in 1901. If it looks in good nick, it’s because it had a paint-job in 2018. It’s beautiful, a lovely octagonal shape with curved wooden seats inside and pathways leading towards it from across Albert Park. It’s not the centre of Albert Park…

It is a shame Kelly-Jane Keen-Minshull will never see Pōneke, its striking bay with the city centre nestled in between the dense forests of the rising hillsides and Matairangi. It is a beautiful, fine city that shares very specific qualities with Mrs. …

…I’m Just Burning Out. Midway through Term 3 of 2022, I did something I have never done before as a teacher. I looked at the class I was teaching, and then at the class I would be teaching in 2023 and thought “I don’t want to do this anymore”. Now, that might seem mild…

An awful lot has happened since the last census in 2018. A whole global pandemic, most of the Ardern premiership, the Blues have become good at rugby as the All Blacks lost their grip on the world cup. If you remember, the last census was a bit of a disaster…

I shed a few tears on the way to work this morning. It wasn’t out of nowhere, and the way things have been for the last few weeks, it wasn’t surprising. …

It’s a two-and-a-half-hour drive up the valley to reach Aoraki. The last half-hour, running close to the banks of Lake Pukaki, takes you from golden tussock into gasp-inducingly sized mountains. Each time you take the drive you notice something else, this time it was the slips on some of the…

The last few years have been weird, right? The whole global pandemic thing, the shut-down of international travel, the death toll in the millions, the not-yet fully manifested horror of Long Covid. Lockdown in March 2020 was scary but, like the coronavirus itself, novel. Watching other countries completely fail to…