It is clear to everyone that Israel's objective is to render Gaza uninhabitable - without food, healthcare, housing and water - to eventually compel population transfer on putatively "humanitarian" grounds. It is ethnic cleansing and Western governments are actively enabling it.

"It's nothing specific about the biology that makes you a woman - it's part of the picture." "How you live with that is a question of history, it's a question of freedom." Judith Butler expertly debunks right-wing attempts to trivialise the question "what is a woman?"

“Let me stop you right there…” Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President President Dr Irfaan Ali; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate. Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!

Exactly #TransDayOfVisibility

“Dr Parmar’s argument that providing culturally affirming spaces is detracting students from opportunities to learn from other cultures ignores how whiteness is normalised.” — Hemopereki Simon Hemopereki Simon, Kyle Tan Kyle Tan & Waikaremoana Waitoki. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

It’s incredible how quickly liberals are willing to trash values they claim to uphold - freedom of speech, human rights, international law, etc - the minute these conflict with the objectives of Western hegemony and capital accumulation in the world economy.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ― James Baldwin

Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.

i added subtitles to hana rawhiti maipi-clarke's parliament haka since it's gone viral and i feel like it'd be good exposure for our reo maori! enjoy.

People power making history in Aotearoa