Tess Maxwell
@tessmaxwell.bsky.social
Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her)
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Tess Maxwell
@tessmaxwell.bsky.social
· Mar 8
‘Cool articles from way back when’: appropriations and reanimations of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet
This article addresses ‘transition’ within feminist media activism by exploring how archival material is reanimated and mobilized within contemporary forms of online activism. Recent scholarship ex...
www.tandfonline.com
My critique of TERF appropriations of Broadsheet (NZ) magazine - couldn't organise open access so please dm for link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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OK this latest press release from the ICC has seriously pissed me off.
The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women.
Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂)
www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...
The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women.
Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂)
www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
OK this latest press release from the ICC has seriously pissed me off.
The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women.
Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂)
www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...
The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women.
Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂)
www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in!
raukawa moana looking almost cosy
from archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
raukawa moana looking almost cosy
from archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in!
raukawa moana looking almost cosy
from archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
raukawa moana looking almost cosy
from archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
Shame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Shame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol
Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site
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hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...
Taiaroa Lighthouse
Collection: Otago Daily Times Collection | Read the full record details for Snapshop Photo: Taiaroa Lighthouse
hocken.recollect.co.nz
May 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site
hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...
hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...
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“As for so-called "civility"-this is 1 more way wealthy white women silence dissent. I refuse to be "civil" in the face of incivil policies & legislation that target working class women. This is class war & deserves to be treated as such. Civility has no place in this attack on the working classes.”
Denying working women equitable wages is, in fact, a very cunty thing to do.
The pay equity amendment legislation looks like, sounds like, and reads like a very anti-women, anti-feminist bill. It's very cunty and so are its architects and supporters.
#NZpol #CuntGate #PayEquity
The pay equity amendment legislation looks like, sounds like, and reads like a very anti-women, anti-feminist bill. It's very cunty and so are its architects and supporters.
#NZpol #CuntGate #PayEquity
May 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“As for so-called "civility"-this is 1 more way wealthy white women silence dissent. I refuse to be "civil" in the face of incivil policies & legislation that target working class women. This is class war & deserves to be treated as such. Civility has no place in this attack on the working classes.”
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This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu!
#toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori
#NZPol
#toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori
#NZPol
May 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu!
#toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori
#NZPol
#toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori
#NZPol
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Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent".
iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
iwpr.org
May 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent".
iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
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"White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers”
@rtraister.bsky.social
@rtraister.bsky.social
#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 8:41 AM
"White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers”
@rtraister.bsky.social
@rtraister.bsky.social
the stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far
so tropical/shades ✨️
www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...
so tropical/shades ✨️
www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...
May 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
the stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far
so tropical/shades ✨️
www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...
so tropical/shades ✨️
www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...
Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin
May 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin
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Gathering in Ōtepoti Dunedin to support trans rights - a colourful crowd under grey skies
May 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Gathering in Ōtepoti Dunedin to support trans rights - a colourful crowd under grey skies
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Oh hey Erica Stanford lied to us again, the "replacement" relationship and sexuality guidelines have removed all mention of gender diversity, don't include menstruation until year 7, and erase Māori / Pasifika perspectives, so get your submission typing fingers ready insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...
Make an urgent submission on the draft Relationship and Sexuality Education Framework today – before submissions close 9 May 2025 - InsideOUT |
Changes are coming to Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools and we’re concerned about what has been proposed by the Government. We believe the draft RSE framework as it stands, is dee...
insideout.org.nz
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Oh hey Erica Stanford lied to us again, the "replacement" relationship and sexuality guidelines have removed all mention of gender diversity, don't include menstruation until year 7, and erase Māori / Pasifika perspectives, so get your submission typing fingers ready insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...
The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read:
"sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction
between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience"
(Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)
"sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction
between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience"
(Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)
April 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read:
"sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction
between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience"
(Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)
"sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction
between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience"
(Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)
Always in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...
A trans history of gay liberation in New Zealand
Trans women – particularly Māori trans women – were 'the very first freedom fighters in the gay movement'.
thespinoff.co.nz
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Always in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa.
thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...
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The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say
Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.
Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.
The end.
Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.
Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.
The end.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say
Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.
Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.
The end.
Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights.
Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women.
The end.
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If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol
April 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
Brewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi
April 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Brewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi
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The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years!
The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD.
📷 by me
#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology
The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD.
📷 by me
#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology
April 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years!
The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD.
📷 by me
#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology
The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire. 1st-2nd century AD.
📷 by me
#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology
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#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954
📷 K V Bigwood
From archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
📷 K V Bigwood
From archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
April 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954
📷 K V Bigwood
From archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
📷 K V Bigwood
From archives nz:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
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#nzpol
This seems a little bit important.
"On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation."
Submissions due 30 April
www.health.govt.nz/publications...
This seems a little bit important.
"On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation."
Submissions due 30 April
www.health.govt.nz/publications...
Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation | Ministry of Health NZ
This discussion document considers options for modernising New Zealand’s regulation of the health workforce. It supports public consultation on this topic.
www.health.govt.nz
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
#nzpol
This seems a little bit important.
"On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation."
Submissions due 30 April
www.health.govt.nz/publications...
This seems a little bit important.
"On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation."
Submissions due 30 April
www.health.govt.nz/publications...
Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour
First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912
📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035)
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912
📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035)
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour
First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912
📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035)
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912
📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035)
www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
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The loss of so many highly-skilled staff from Archives NZ and the National Library will inevitably have a detrimental impact for researchers.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Job cuts on the way for Department of Corrections and Archives NZ, union says
The PSA said the changes would lead to a net loss of 49 roles at Corrections including in health and safety and learning and development.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The loss of so many highly-skilled staff from Archives NZ and the National Library will inevitably have a detrimental impact for researchers.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Learning stuff here everyday. ✨ Did you know that the Great Exhibition here in Ōtepoti Dunedin got more than 3 million visitors? With the last exhibition in 1925 - exactly 100 years ago.
Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱
Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱
March 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Learning stuff here everyday. ✨ Did you know that the Great Exhibition here in Ōtepoti Dunedin got more than 3 million visitors? With the last exhibition in 1925 - exactly 100 years ago.
Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱
Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱