Liz Beddoe
@lizbeddoe.bsky.social
Social work. Pro-abortion. Politics. 🇵🇸Cats. Good food. Pākehā. 🏴. She/ her. Obsessed with pūtangitangi.
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Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Zero surprises that the brainless transphobic health minister in NZ ignored all expert advice and evidence and banned puberty blockers for trans youth. Literal blood on his hands.
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
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Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)
YouTube video by Virginia Braun
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July 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
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Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.
July 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.
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Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Long time social work academic and activist investigated for standing up for Palestine. www.ifsw.org/ifsw-educati...
IFSW Education Commission Defends the Right to Speak for Justice: Standing with Professor Lavalette
It is with great concern that we have learned that Professor Michael Lavalette has been summoned by the police for an interview under the Public Order Act, following his public expressions of solidari
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July 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Long time social work academic and activist investigated for standing up for Palestine. www.ifsw.org/ifsw-educati...
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Funny what people reserve their outrage for.
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
We're talking about a group actively planning to attack RAF bases. As an ex-RAF serviceman, that's going too far. No way will I support or accept any such thing.
June 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Funny what people reserve their outrage for.
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
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Luxon on RNZ equating billionaires with hard work. There is not one LivingWageEmployer on the rich list, the govt has stolen the chance of decent pay from 300,000+ actual hard working women, & the PM wants to celebrate the folks who don’t want to pay their fair share of tax or decent wages.
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Luxon on RNZ equating billionaires with hard work. There is not one LivingWageEmployer on the rich list, the govt has stolen the chance of decent pay from 300,000+ actual hard working women, & the PM wants to celebrate the folks who don’t want to pay their fair share of tax or decent wages.
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“If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the “Māori problem”, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world” #Nzpol
Unsettled Bliss - whiteness
in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.
Unsettled Bliss - whiteness
in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.
There is no 'Māori problem', there is a 'white people problem' | E-Tangata
“If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the ‘Māori problem’, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world.” — Elizabeth A...
e-tangata.co.nz
June 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the “Māori problem”, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world” #Nzpol
Unsettled Bliss - whiteness
in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.
Unsettled Bliss - whiteness
in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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Not paying authors and other creative artists for use of their work will kill them! 💀 ⚰️ ⚱️
Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!
Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Not paying authors and other creative artists for use of their work will kill them! 💀 ⚰️ ⚱️
Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!
Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!
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You can’t make this up!!
Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan
Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules.
This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all
#WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori
Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan
Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules.
This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all
#WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori
Alcohol lobbyists given input on health policies, documents reveal
Alcohol lobbyists given input on health policies, documents reveal
Industry groups helped develop several initiatives about alcohol harm - including one on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
You can’t make this up!!
Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan
Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules.
This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all
#WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori
Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan
Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules.
This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all
#WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori
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#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
www.beehive.govt.nz
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
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Part of what really disturbs me about the sudden end of pay equity is the democratic implications - National did not say before the election that they would do this. It is now being passed under urgency, the same day as announcement, with no public input. NZers quite simply have not had a say.
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Part of what really disturbs me about the sudden end of pay equity is the democratic implications - National did not say before the election that they would do this. It is now being passed under urgency, the same day as announcement, with no public input. NZers quite simply have not had a say.
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The government will save billions through this decision. But we should be clear that this is money that has come directly out of the pockets of low-paid female workers. I didn’t think the National Party would stoop this low to pay for it’s tax cuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Pay equity legislation could save 'billions' for government - PM
Christopher Luxon said the upcoming Budget was not the motivation for rushing through the legislation.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The government will save billions through this decision. But we should be clear that this is money that has come directly out of the pockets of low-paid female workers. I didn’t think the National Party would stoop this low to pay for it’s tax cuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
