I went looking for a word and found a trapdoor. The word I had in mind was something like misogynoir, a term coined by Moya Bailey to describe the particular form of racist misogyny experienced by Black women. It names something that cannot be fully captured by either racism or sexism alone. It identifies a … Continue reading SMoTHer: When Institutions Learn to Breathe Downward
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Ethnic Leadership and Ethic of Guardianship
There is a curious choreography in the public life of Aotearoa New Zealand. Political leaders are not often seen in social media feeds with photographs from ordinary Sunday church congregations. Such images may suggest denominational favour, religious alignment, or proximity to organised Christian conservatism. Yet the same leaders appear quite comfortably at mosques, mandirs, gurdwaras, … Continue reading Ethnic Leadership and Ethic of Guardianship
Land-Rich, Scale-Poor
Aotearoa New Zealand is land-rich but scale-poor. That is both our blessing and our bind. We have pasture, coastline, geothermal heat, forests, rainfall. What we do not have is scale; not in population, not in capital markets, not in proximity to large demand centres. For generations we made land do the heavy lifting. Refrigeration turned … Continue reading Land-Rich, Scale-Poor
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