This article was previously published in The Press. Maia Hall is the Centre Manager at Auckland Women’s Centre. People who are gender-queer have existed as long as there have been people. Gender queerness is not a threat to anything except to the patriarchy. Trans women are women, and trans rights are women’s rights. Auckland Women’s ...
We’re excited that, after a year of working at the Centre, the wonderful Maia Hall has moved into the role of Centre Manager, which means the inspiring Awatea Mita (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Pikiao) has joined us to look after Women’s Support (free advice, referral and information), and to coordinate our community education programme. Awatea brings enormous ...
It was an evening of humour and song when broadcaster Moana Maniapoto (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Pikiao) warmly interviewed Professor Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua) at the Samoa House in late March. If you missed out on our sold out event, the full video is below! The upbeat feeling was welcome and ...
Did you know that nearly half of all public service chief executives were women in 2022, twice the proportion in 2012? This is one of the 32 facts in our just-updated at-a-glance, quick-reference “Gender Gap Facts”. This brief guide offers a handful of illustrative snapshots (from the most recent research and statistics available) about gender ...
Post-Covid fatigue, cost-of-living crisis, climate disasters, unchecked misogyny, the recent parliamentary grounds occupation – as chair and journalist Alison Mau put it, the upcoming election has the “most complex set of circumstances in my 30 years in this country.” Last Wednesday 26 July, Auckland Women’s Centre hosted a community forum to unpack what the election ...
The Budget – how the government spends its money, and what commentators and opposition parties say about it in the following days – is an interesting reflection of the values of the country. This year, the government allocated just under $74 million to prevent and respond to family violence. This included $9 million to provide ...
Te Mahere Whai Mahi Wāhine Women’s Employment Action Plan Comments for Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women July 2022 1. All policy should be developed first and foremost for wāhine Māori • As tangata whenua, as per te Tiriti; for example, employment programmes should be “By wāhine Māori for wāhine Māori.” • As a group including ...
Welcome to our International Women’s Day campaign. Over the next 10 days we will be showcasing 10 outstanding leaders in our communities. Please join us. Oriini Kaipara In December, journalist and broadcaster Oriini Kaipara (Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Rangitihi), became the first wahine with a moko kauae to present primetime news, increasing ...
Leah Watt, who is one half of our all-new Tuia Te Papa team, sums up the “isolating” challenges for rangatahi wāhine and non-binary beautifully: “You’re trying to work out your place in society and challenge it at the same time,” she says. “You’re trying to pull down the patriarchy but it can feel like you ...
Maria Boow has long been part of the Wāhi Wāhine o Tāmaki Makaurau (WWTM) community as a creche volunteer for the “inspiring” Solo Mums on Sundays group – and now she is also our new Youth Coordinator. “When Kaitlin called me, I screamed, and my friends were like, “What? What?” But I was just so ...
