Wimmin’s Land Trip ’19
In September 2019, a group of 6 of us traveled to wimmin's lands in Australia together for a private gathering of lesbians. The trip was self-funded, but some awesome more grown up lesbians did donate (thank you so much J ...
Party time with the Governance and Administration Committee:
We've been somewhat reluctantly engaging in some politics recently as we felt responsibility to stand against sexism. We will be having ongoing kōrero about the use of engaging with the state, as it often seems our energy is better spent on other projects.That aside, here is the video we played at our Wednesday morning Zoom ...
Poutū-te-rangi Hui: Ōtautahi
We are keen to have a relaxed group conversation about supporting young, questioning and newly out lesbians. We want use these ideas to create a booklet/resource. To begin this project, we want to have a korerō with lesbians aged 17 & over about their experiences, what's been helpful, unhelpful and so on. Key meeting information:We ...
The Feminist Article the Green Party has Banned:
This opinion piece appeared in the 2019 Spring issue of Te Awa (the NZ Green Party's newsletter) at this link. Marama Davidson, a Green Party Co-Leader and Member of Parliament, has since said this article "puts trans rights to exist up for debate" and it's been removed. Solutions that are Fair to Everyone I am ...
Survey: Lesbians Worldwide ’19
We are running a short survey about what life is like for lesbians in different countries. The survey was created by lesbian feminists in South Korea and New Zealand after discussions around the lack of lesbian perspectives represented at the ILGA World Conference. The initial results were so interesting we thought it would be worthwhile ...
Our lesbian group has been banned from Pride. An overview:
We encourage visitors to the site to read our 'about us' before reading this post. We are a group of lesbians in NZ who want to create positive pro-lesbian spaces and politics. It's Pride Month in Wellington and as a part of that Out Wellington Inc. hosts a fair called Out in the Park. We ...
