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Month: November 2015

It’s STILL Not OK

Posted on November 26, 2015 by writehandedgirl — Leave a reply

Yesterday ActionStation delivered their petition asking John Key to apologise for his comments and increase support for sexual violence services. The petition had more than 13,000 signatures. 

Posted in Feminism, Politics | Tagged crime, Domestic Violence, Feminism, It's Not OK, New Zealand, NZpol, politics, Sexual violence | Leave a reply

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Posted on November 25, 2015 by writehandedgirl — 10 Comments ↓

December 3 is the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The theme this year is “Inclusion matters: access and empowerment for people of all abilities.” I’m doing a Continue Reading →

Posted in About illness | Tagged chronic illness, disability, Human Rights, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, New Zealand | 10 Comments ↓

Chronic illness in cat gifs

Posted on November 23, 2015 by writehandedgirl

It can be really hard to understand what chronic illness is like. While everyone has a different experience, there’s enough similarities for me to paint a picture… in cat gifs. Continue Reading →

Posted in About illness | Tagged cats, chronic illness, chronic pain, gifs, spoonie

Sex, depression and antidepressants

Posted on November 20, 2015 by writehandedgirl

Let’s talk about sex, baby. Let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about – all the ways in which you don’t want to have sex when you’re depressed and/or Continue Reading →

Posted in About illness, Feminism, Mental health | Tagged antidepressants, anxiety, depression, medication, sex

NZ: 100% pure bullshit

Posted on November 19, 2015 by writehandedgirl

I wanted to share a couple of things from Dr Mike Joy’s RADtalk for LitCrawl. After he spoke, the room felt like it was in shock. Basically, New Zealand’s environment Continue Reading →

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