Tag: Lesbian
The queer women behind, We Were Dangerous, writer Maddie Dai and director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, discuss the personal inspirations behind this timely tale of autonomy, freedom and independent spirit.
Filmed in Christchurch, We Were Dangerous tells the story of Nellie, Daisy and Lou, three girls labelled to be so uncivilised that they...
The Hohou Te Rongo Kahukura report card is giving the government at 'F' when it comes to preventing violence for Takataapui and Rainbow communities.
“Flunking the government didn't sit easily with us, but we didn’t really have a choice,” says project lead Sandra Dickson. “The reality is, there’s just one social...
In an exciting and significant moment for NZ theatre, The Court Theatre in Christchurch is staging Fun Home, the groundbreaking musical based on the graphic novel by lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel about her complex relationship with her father and growing up in a funeral home.
Lead actors Michael Lee Porter...
Historian Gareth Watkins looks back at July dates with notable connections to the progress of our rainbow communities.
9 July 1869
Emma Ada Scott was born in Tasmania, Australia. By 1914, she had moved to New Zealand and was living with her “dear friend” Alice Mills in Wellington. They moved...
Dick Richards believes you need to confront your past to secure your future.
You probably don’t remember, but a few years ago, we were fist-deep in a pandemic. Yes, I’m being facetious. It’s not something we remember fondly, nor something we’d want to repeat. Although sometimes I do miss getting...
Man-hating lesbians aren’t a real thing, but lesbian-loving straight cis ‘lesbros’ are, and Jessie Lewthwaite wants more!
Doing my patented butch dance, which I bust out when I haven't had enough gins to actually do my far goofier real dancing, I slowly push through the crowd to the bar. I...
Jessie Lewthwaite has notes for those trying to attract the female gaze (gays).
As is common for most busy professional millennials, I end most of my days laying in bed, disassociating by staring at my phone. Currently, my favourite online brain-numbing void is Instagram Reels, because I feel too old...
Jessie Lewthwaite sits down with Sarah Buxton – coordinator of Auckland’s Charlotte Museum – the world’s only lesbian museum.
Standing outside a purple building, I used vaping as an excuse to decompress. The Charlotte Museum was having a fundraiser in the form of a quiz night, and even with my...
