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WARNING Trigger Warning for mention of child pornography

So this article appeared on the Herald today, with the unfortunately horrifically bad headline “Judges living on planet ‘dumb arse'”

(note, this is a bad headline because it makes fun of the should-be hallowed institution of our judiciary, and thus will turn off any serious readers instantly)

Sunday morning musings

I just recklessly retweeted this Jezebel article just now. It was tweeted by an awesome account that I follow called @STEMWomen. Then I thought about it. On the surface, this… 

BLAST OFF!

yayThis week, after a hectic and crazy 9 months, the new amnesty.nz website launched! There have been blood, tears and sweat, and it has all been worth it.

#RaiseTheQuota

Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud takes in 750 refugees a year. This measly number means that we are 87th in the world in per capita rankings. We haven’t… 

The Bamboo Ceiling

5203037712_0949f8ce20_b-780x450So this link came across one of my newsfeeds today. Yea, it’s an American context, about American-Asian kids going to American colleges. However, it’s not the first we’ve heard of such a thing, here in Aotearoa anyway. There was this gem from 2010 in our very own Herald.

It’s been a while!

So I’ve been super slack in the whole blogging thing. I guess i’ve not had enough to really make me ranty in a while… hehe, no that’s a lie, just… 

Identity

[EDIT: I wasn’t gonna do this, but it’s been a day now, THIS is what I am CURRENTLY proud to identify as] An incident happened today and it is one… 

Research and Life

It’s a bit of a lazy start to the new year. I’m in year two of the Taught masters, so no more papers, just the research dissertation to go. I’ve… 

Last blog of 2014

Been a bit of a quiet year on the blogging front for me, so this will be my last one for 2014, with my only resolution to increase the rate…