Might be time to stop working for the day. Just spent a whole minute trying to remember what the letters in BBQ stood for like it was an acronym.

New in Open Screens: Oliver Towarek reviews Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media by Paige Macintosh (@cornflakerabbit.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/OS....

Book Review: Paige Macintosh, <em>Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media</em> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

Paige Macintosh, Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025), pp. 240, ISBN: 9781399540124, hardback £95.00.

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Just clocked a bit of casual transphobia in the staff club newsletter. Even in a "rainbow-inclusive" institution based in the so-called queer capital of Aotearoa, trans people still have to put up with this kind of relentless dehumanisation. I'm so tired.

12 hours remain to get your submission in for the Definition of Woman & Man Amendment Bill. There's a guide here: qtopia.org.nz/news/submiss...

Submission Guide: Legislation (Definition of Woman & Man) Amendment Bill — Qtopia NZ

Submissions are open for the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. This is a guide produced by a collective of transgender people and their allies, to help others who are also opp...

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Survived teaching Film 101 and having a lot of mixed feelings about it. Happy to be no longer doing 60-hour work weeks but not so enthused about the bleak af academic job market. Will miss the students but not the endless admin. Mouse sums up the vibe pretty well.

Trans rights protests always have the best fashion.

We need a bigger civic square. So many people standing up for trans rights

NZ First wrote their definitions bill after anti-trans hate group SUFW showed them a petition demanding such a bill. They gathered 2,245 signatures in 4 months This petition *against* the bill just surpassed that in less than 4 hours ❤️ Please stand with us our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...

E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill

The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...

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My friend's group is organising a workshop for rangatahi (15years+) at The Dowse this Saturday. They describe it as a neurospicy friendly, queer, DnD loving, takatāpui, crafternoon with lots of loud cackles. www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/a-worldbui...

A Worldbuilding Workshop with the Cunty Cryptids Club

In this workshop you will do the deep work of fully fleshing out a character before moving on to brainstorming their adornments.

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The Whānau Wall activates Indigenous archival practice as a living archive, expanding and contracting, responding to each location with different stories. In the Moana, a whānau wall is a familiar fixture of the Pacific home.

Mouse locking in for another shift as writing supervisor/leg warmer.

Did you know that gender minority university students in Aotearoa NZ have access to health care services right for their needs, except if they go to University of Waikato? UoW said No to free training for staff to enable this! #NZpol Please sign petition ⤵️ our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

Restore access to gender-affirming care at the University of Waikato!

Health care in Aotearoa should be an inclusive and welcoming space no matter who you are or where you are from. Everyone should experience high quality treatment in a timely manner. Gender-affirming h...

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I feel like I'm beginning every lecture this trimester apologising for disruptions students are facing. Would prefer to live in more precedented times, thanks.

Wearing pants with geese on them to class so my students know I'm cool and hip.

Tfw the neighbours are doing outdoor activities during YOUR walking time.

Some thoughts on Rūrangi...

The Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association@awgsa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New blog post published in AWGSA's series on Representation and Media! Paige Macintosh writes about cultural resistance from Indigenous and trans creatives in film in Aotearoa. Check it out here awgsa.asn.au/sovereign-su...

Imagine making AI bird slop when Aotearoa exists

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Imagine making AI bird slop when Jacanas exist

AGAIN AGAIN premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival May 11 and 12!!! I'm so excited to finally put this beautiful heartfelt movie out into the world. Grab your tickets before they sell out! www.siff.net/festival/aga...

Again Again

Aberdeen-raised director Mia Moore’s debut film, executive produced by Lilly Wachowski, is a heady, romantic sci-fi starring a trans woman who enters a new day after ten years stuck in “the loop.”

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Someone please go back in time and convince me that taking on co-editor roles for two edited collections at once is a diabolical decision.

Watching Dinner at Eight and feeling grateful I will never attend a dinner party with a giant lion-shaped aspic.

Left the house without my swipe, work keys, home keys, and the usb containing today's lecture slides. Guess I'm doing my morning commute twice.

Highly recommend this reading from Fired Up Stilettos. BTW to the Chair of the committee, it is not a serious offence to consensually send nudes to other consenting adults. If those were leaked in any way, THAT is a serious offence. #nzpol

1/200 Media@1of200.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fired Up Stilettos Expects Better From Would-be Allies ✒️ When party strategy gets in the way of progress, what options are there for recourse? We have the privilege to platform this article from Fired Up Stilettos detailing some worrying interactions with the Green Party.

Someone's happy I'm back from Melbourne.

Things I love about Melbourne (based on this very stressful 3 day work trip): - trams - Pesto the Penguin - Chinese food - queer bookshops - birds

In Melbourne for a work thing and had to explain to someone that as a Wellingtonian I don't actually own an umbrella because it's too windy.

I got my degree from Otago so I have shared this story on facebook expressing my disappointment. Hopefully others are doing the same. Glad to see that this article comes from staff within the university too.

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is deeply disturbing news, and implicates everyone involved www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

It's important to teach students the cinema classics

I need to update my cultural references. The new student cohort does not know The X Files.

Teaching Moonlight for the first time in the Introduction to Film course and the response at the screening was fucking great. It's such a delight getting to witness these students encountering incredible films for the first time. Almost makes the 60-hour work weeks bearable.

Survived this week's lectures thanks to off-brand panadol and nurofen. I don't recommend dental surgery as part of teaching prep generally, but lecturing for two hours straight with a half numb tongue was certainly an experience.