2025 is Auckland Women’s Centre’s 50th birthday! Yes, we’ve been crashing several waves of feminism into patriarchal monuments for half a century now, from 1975. Rā whānau ki a tatou! Turning 50 feels good. It feels big. It feels like something to celebrate – with a whole festival season of 50th birthday events: Ladi6: AWC 50th ...
Feminist math = community power By our collective powers combined, we can create spectacular things for all wāhine and women in Aotearoa. In other words, a lot of people donating a little goes a long way. So: thank you for joining the Fab 500 in our 50th year, and standing in solidarity with women with ...
Emma Jehle-Elvidge now looks after Women’s Support (free advice, referral and information), and coordinates our community education programme. Emma is a fantastic addition to our team, as the wonderful Awatea Mita continues as kaiwhakatuhono for our Aotearoa Free From Stalking project. Kind, practical and energetic, Emma finished her studies in Law and Arts (sociology ...
Media release, 1 May 2025 Auckland Women’s Centre is the latest in a growing number of organisations expressing serious concerns regarding the draft Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Framework for schools. Leonie Morris, Project Lead for the Centre’s Aotearoa Free From Stalking campaign described the draft framework as “a significant failure in supporting the diverse ...
Tautoko to Tamatha Paul and everyone else working hard to ameliorate authorities’ immediate and ongoing responses to crisis and emergency – whether due to violence, other crimes, and/or health emergencies including mental distress. Many individuals and communities have reason not to trust the police, including many women experiencing family violence, sexual violence or other forms ...
Our expanded counselling programme now has a fantastic coordinator to provide supervision to students on placement with us, and to match women seeking counselling with the best-fit counsellor for them. We’re delighted that our inaugural counselling services coordinator is Veronica Cusack, one of our very first placement students (after a career change), now graduated! Veronica ...
This Waitangi Day 2025, we’re reflecting on wāhine Māori thought leadership for activism and advocacy: The quotes above are just some of the huge encouragement for change-makers which incredible thinkers have shared in our community kōrero over the last five years. These particular quotes from Tracey McIntosh, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku speak to ...
The director and Oscar©-nominated producer talks hīkoi, heroes and Hollywood On a lovely Spring evening, we witnessed a warm chat among friends at Western Springs Garden Community Hall: it turns out Chelsea Winstanley (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi) and Stacey Morrison (Ngāi Tahu, Te Arawa) have got to know each other through their daughters. And ...
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 ...
