Jenny Rankine hails from Adelaide in Australia but has lived in Aotearoa for more than half her life, and identifies as Pakeha. She has worked as a public servant, a print journalist, in Auckland Rape Crisis, and as an editor of Broadsheet, New Zealand’s long-running feminist magazine. She and her partner have 12 nieces and […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. We know where we’re buying our meat from now on! The carnivorous delights of Meat on Ponsonby (recently under new management) are great – especially the lean sausages! Everything is free range and gluten-free, but the bonus […]
US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has reiterated her support for equal marriage rights calling same sex marriage a “constitutional right.” With the United States Supreme court set to rule on the issue of marriage equality in June, Clinton, who has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for President has released a new statement calling ssame sex marriage a “constitutional […]
An Egyptian court has ruled that GLBT foreigners can be deported or banned from entering the country. The case in question involved an allegedly gay Libyan man who the interior ministry barred from returning to Egypt in 2008. It it understood that the unnamed graduate student appealed the decision in hope of continuing his studies […]