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Joanna Kidman

6 years

Neoliberalism, Māori solo mothers and the death of an infant. Thanks, @etangata for creating a space for us to tell our stories.

‘I’m still a mum, aren’t I?’ | E-Tangata

"We were the last mothers of that generation. The last to go through before the cradle-to-grave welfare state came crashing down around us. After that, single mothers were further stigmatised — and...

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

And there ends an era. Whatever may be said now or later, we shall not see her like again.

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Joanna Kidman

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5 years

I’m the first in my whānau to go to university and the first to get a PhD. And now I’m first in my whānau to become a full Professor. I stand on the shoulders of my tūpuna and the Māori scholars who came before me. E kore au e ngaro, he kākano i ruia mai i Rangiātea.

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Joanna Kidman

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4 years

OMG Iook who I saw outside Parliament just now.

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Joanna Kidman

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2 years

The protest sign at Parliament that reads: "End apartheid. We Go Home" shows a remarkable lack of historical understanding.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

White academia: You’ve ‘discovered’ racism this past fortnight and taken to the streets in support of BLM. Now it’s time to turn your attention to the saturating whiteness of your own universities, disciplines and teaching & research practices, and recognise your own complicity.

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Joanna Kidman

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2 years

I applaud @annafifield 's front page editorial comment on @NZstuff this morning. It literally spells out the word. 👏👏👏Is this a first?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

To those waving the United Tribes and Tino Rangatiratanga flags at parliament, mana whenua have spoken. To those knit-your-own-yurt folk culturally appropriating indigenous imagery in the name of conspirituality, mana whenua have spoken. It's time to go home.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 months

So let me get this right, cancer patients may have their benefits cut if they don't get a job but landlords get a $3billion tax cut. What is this parallel universe I've entered?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

If you are a teacher in NZ & find yourself with a greater workload due to some of your colleagues being absent, flick me a message & I am happy to try to organise to video call your class to talk about the NZ Wars

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

Sending support to the amazing, wonderful supermarket staff @NewWorld_Thordn near Parliament who are dealing with aggressive, unmasked anti-vaxx protesters at present. Thank you for coming to work under such trying circumstances. We see you. Keep safe.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

Today I found myself ripping into a random racist in a Kapiti Coast bookstore who was banging on about 'all this rewriting of history' and 'Tay Rapra (ie Te Rauparaha) the war criminal'. It was probably entirely unneccesary on my part but Twitter, it cleared the sinuses.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

I would like to see Trelise Cooper donate all proceeds from her "Trail of Tiers" dress to Navajo nation and Hopi nation reservations who are struggling during the pandemic. In May 2020, Navajo Nation had more confirmed cases per capita than 48 US States

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

The headline that injured me this morning: "Chris Trotter says MediaWorks’ decision to take Sean Plunket off the air raises disturbing questions about New Zealand’s political diversity" I fell off my seat laughing. Lor, when white men claim to be the voice of diversity 😜

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

UPDATE: If you are a teacher in NZ & find yourself with a greater workload due to some of your colleagues being absent, flick me a message- Vincent O'Malley ( @vomalley ) and I would be happy to organise to video call your class to talk about the NZ Wars

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

This is a thread about research trauma. It’s about how we tell stories, as indigenous researchers, about the violent past and the complicated, messy present; how we occupy different time-zones in the course of a fieldwork day. It’s also about how we exercise our privilege (1/14)

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

Wow, it never stops feeling painful when Pākehā colleagues erase your contribution to a project by removing everything you've written and putting their own words in place. How's your morning going?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

"The day that Māori start taking advice from Judith [Collins] about tikanga Māori is the day we shall all have entered the twilight zone" : (The always delightful) Ella Henry tonight on TV1 News. 🤣🤣🤣 Ella is one of the most quotable wāhine on earth😂

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

THIS has made my day! The town of Maxwell, named after the leader of the militia that brutally murdered Māori children, is FINALLY having its name changed. Pākaraka once more! Feeling pretty tearful right now. @nzherald

A North Island town's name has officially changed - here's why

"None of the reasons given against changing outweighed the case to right this wrong."

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

I was first in whānau to go to university over 40 years ago and from day 1, I saw entrenched structural and epistemic racism. What's changed? Nothing. It's been a really hard week in academia for Māori. TBH, sometimes it really just feels too soul-destroyingly hard

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 months

When there's a knock on the door and the words accompanying these putiputi read : 'Ka whawhai tonu mātou' and you know that the wāhine toa are gathering. Thank you😭This will pass but right now I'm moved beyond words xxx

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

NZ fashion designer Trelise Cooper names one of her dress designs: "Trail of Tiers." I guess it's cool to be ironic about genocide and the forced relocation of 46,000 Native Americans. @trelisewgtn

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

I stand in solidarity with Māori academics at Waikato University who are speaking out against institutional racism in their institution. Ka whawhai tonu mātou!

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

If academics imposed a strict work-to-rule regime and worked only the hours we are paid for, universities in Aotearoa would probably stop functioning altogether after a couple of weeks.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

Māori never ceded sovereignty. Have a good Sunday.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

Was told today that I was considered a key contender for a very senior and important role but hadn’t applied for it. I laughed and deflected but afterwards wondered why the hell I did that. Wāhine Māori, we need to recognise and own our strengths and magnificence way more often.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

Kia kaha @MaramaDavidson We've got you.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

5 months

So when might we talk about mental health, the toxic work culture inside the Beehive and the Wellington beltway, and the vicious environment of NZ politics more generally?🤔 Now's good.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

Hey @NZStuff can you stop referring to people as 'part Māori', please? (The Peter Holdem story might have interested me until I saw this terminology.)

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

"From the moment that the ancestors began to know this land as the Mother, Papatūānuku, stories have had the capacity to guide and teach as well as entertain or warn" Moana Jackson Moe mai rā e te rangatira

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

Today I did a thing. Tomorrow the work begins.

Vincent O'Malley

@vomalley

2 years

At the He Whenua Taurikura launch this afternoon. Incredibly proud of @JoannaKidman

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

6 months

"New Zealand First would do almost anything for a vote now. They’re as principled as a cigarette" @JohnJCampbell This is fkn great writing. It's a long read, but don't skimp. Treat it as homework but interesting.

John Campbell: Are we on the cusp of something new or something old?

Goodbye 2023 - but is it out with the old and in with the even older?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

I am heart-broken about the silence of government who could, if it wished, come to the aid of a tertiary sector that lies in pieces. Who will educate your children in the years to come? Who will be left to speak truth to power?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

So along with many others at Victoria University, my colleagues and I got the email of doom today, calling us to a meeting to advise us about the impact of the cuts to our programme. The vibe across campus is incredibly grim. Fun times.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

9 months

Perhaps a National government could set up a real estate company for foreign buyers. They could call it the New Zealand Company. Yeah, that would work.🫤

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

When I raised urgent concerns at @wellingtonuni about the safety of Māori colleagues and students, I was listened to carefully and taken seriously. The VC and DVC (Māori) offered immediate support and my HoDs (both wāhine Māori) swung into action. See @AucklandUni , it can be done

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

5 years

Wellington conversation, today, in a lift at uni: Bearded 20-something male to his mate: I think that's Joanna Kidman. I follow her on twitter. Bearded mate: Nah, she's too old. Bearded 20-something: Yeah.. nah, it's not her. Ummm, I CAN HEAR YOU!

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

The right to protest, like freedom of speech, comes with responsibilities. It's not absolute. Yeah you can be obnoxious for the sake of it if you want, but once you start using swastikas, misuse symbols from the Shoah or spread disinformation you've signed away those rights IMO

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

8 months

NZ Herald writes an entire story about what iwi might or might not do without actually asking iwi what they might or might not do.🙄

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

"I was relieved that I was no longer in the same department as two senior professors, who authored the 'Listener Letter' ... who subsequently used the Privacy Act and lawyers to gain access to my emails": @taramcallister4 "

50 reasons there are no Māori in your science department | E-Tangata

“We are swimming upstream, the trout are nipping at our heels, the farmers are draining our habitat, and algae are stealing our oxygen. It's hard to survive, let alone thrive, in your white science...

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

Last week a stranger in an underground carpark threatened to rape me 'to teach me a lesson' and then spat at me. I was very frightened Recently I gave a talk about intergenerational memories of Ōrākau. I cried. The audience applauded Memo to self: I'm not your fckn trauma trope

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

Why did this story make me tearful? It's lovely and those tāne are beautiful. But I got weepy because it brought home how stories about gentle, loving Māori fathers rarely appear in my newsfeed. These men are so often erased by negative media via @NZSTUFF

Koia te aroha - Ngā pāpā Māori: Just Love - Māori Dads

For hundreds of years, Māori men have been gentle, kind and involved fathers. They have wiped away tears and sung to their babies, as little hands cling to their necks. How and why have these stories...

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

I have a Māori Head of Department and I cannot even begin to explain how this has completely transformed my life.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

One of my research resolutions this year is to focus on how teacher education programmes facilitate, perpetuate and entrench institutional racism; how that affects whānau Māori across the country and also the teaching profession itself. I've been biting my tongue for too long.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

This racism breaks my fucking heart. I hate that this happened to this young wāhine. via @nzherald

'Racial profiling': Māori teen in tears after store employee calls her 'undesirable'

'I don't know why she said that. It has really hurt me."

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

Today I'm checking my transcripts of our visits to battle sites in Taranaki... and I just can't even... Twenty years and wave after wave of invasion...haukāinga fleeing for their lives...being hunted down...endless land confiscations... Some days this work is: Just. Too. Much.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 months

There is so much evidence that military-style youth boot camps don't work and are expensive, that I can only assume that this government hates children, most of whom will be poor and brown. Plus, it wants to snatch children's lunches. Is this a government or a death-cult?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

I find it very confronting to hear that the Shaping Hamilton exhibition at Waikato Museum asks visitors to vote on whether they would invade Waikato had they been 19th century decision makers. And, a substantial number said yes. This hurts.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

I find it terrifying to hear so many Pākehā academics suddenly claiming they are mātauranga Māori experts especially when securing funding or institutional resources. In some fields (e.g. law psychology, education, health) this can have a direct impact on Māori lives. Just stop!

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

It's been 20 years today since I married my best friend @vomalley

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

Thank you to the many for your online support as this particularly nasty deluge plays out. I know who you are and appreciate your advocacy. Please take this as a personal acknowledgement.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

Please NEVER use words like 'kaitiakitanga' to justify redundancies @VicUniWgtn - this misuse of Māori concepts to justify putting people out of work is incredibly distressing and angering and racist! Just stop!

Uni staff feel 'guilt-tripped' into quitting jobs after Christmas speech

At the staff party, the vice-chancellor warned Victoria university would be making difficult decisions early next year.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

11 months

This doesn't read like news, more like creepy paparazzi stalking of a woman in deep crisis.

How it unfolded: The night that cost Kiri Allan her career as a minister

Kiritapu Allan was one of Labour's most promising MPs. Her boss said she was "at the top of her game", but on Sunday night that all changed.

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@JoannaKidman

5 months

I'm bemused by this. Due process takes time. There were privacy and mental health issues involved. Why shd the Greens have made public statements ahead of a fair employment process? Are we (the public) just grumpy foot-stomping toddlers who need information Now! Now! Now!

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 months

Kia ora everyone, am dropping in to thank you all so very much for your care and support. It's made a difficult day less challenging. I'm keeping an eye on my socials but will hold off posting for a few days until the storm passes. You're damn good humans.❤️

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3 years

It's here! NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui. And it had me in tears in the first 20 seconds. If you watch nothing else this year, please watch this (+ the graphics are awesome!)

Documentary | NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui

NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui is the third compelling chapter in RNZ’s award-winning documentary project on the New Zealand Wars. Available to watch in 4K.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@JoannaKidman

4 years

It just took @vomalley and me two and a half hours to replace a toilet seat in our bathroom. That's what 2 PhDs and 15 years of tertiary education does for you.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

1 year

Today has been brutal for so many of my university colleagues. In the midst of this absolute devastation, our hearts are breaking 💔

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

5 years

Hey, can the Pākehā media please stop referring to a group "illegally occupying" the whenua at Ihumātao. Know your history and get your facts straight. Also, check your bias. Check your privilege.

Ihumātao live: Protest to intensify

Reinforcements arriving from around North Island as protest gears up for third day.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

Today a male colleague described himself to me as an "equity champion'. 🧎‍♀️ Later, another one said he considered himself to be a 'thought leader'👨‍🎓 How grandiose. Do these terms come with a tiara?👑 If so, can I have one? I could be the tea-lady ninja 🥷

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

4 years

I wonder how museum visitors might have voted if asked to vote on whether they would defend their land and people if they were invaded. I also wonder what the f#&king point of the question was. Interactive engagement taken a bit far!

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

As of today I have two strong, clever, articulate wāhine Māori as my co-Heads of Department. A/P Mere Skerrett and Dr Hiria McRae have adopted a distributed leadership approach. THIS is what academic leadership in Aotearoa should look like. @WellingtonUni - you did good today.

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@JoannaKidman

3 months

Which ever of @dbseymour 's staffers are running this account tonight ('cos it ain't him), tell your boss that I'm personally inviting him to pop across the road and have a coffee and a kōrero with me at The Lab - I'll even pay. Would love to have a chat. Is he brave enough?

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3 months

Some interesting views from a Jacinda Ardern and Labour appointee.

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@JoannaKidman

3 years

Oh settlers! 🤦‍♀️Opened the Letters page of the Listener to find a bunch of University of Auckland professors, incl Liz Rata, denying that Mātauranga Māori is science. Where do these shuffling zombies come from? Is there something in the water?

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@JoannaKidman

1 year

Heartwarming that so many men have stepped forward in the past 48 hours to reassure us ladies that misogyny isn't as bad as we thought. Phew, here was me thinking... nah, wait... have to leave the thinking to the menfolk #prettylittlething

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@JoannaKidman

1 year

Jeez, a lot of finger-waving at Ngāpuhi for setting ground rules in their own rohe. You'd almost think people don't know how the Treaty of Waitangi is supposed to work.... oh... wait... 😂

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@JoannaKidman

3 years

Breaking news: Dog-whistling Auckland University professor makes scare-mongering claims that He Puapua will create an ethno-nationalist state. Oh dear.😱 Ummm... NZ's been a (white) ethno-nationalist state since 1845 when the NZ Wars kicked off. Guess she didn't get the memo.

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@JoannaKidman

1 year

I'm married to this fellow and quite bloody proud of him too

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@vomalley

1 year

Truly humbling to be named a semi-finalist for New Zealander of the year alongside a remarkable group of people.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

5 years

Tucked between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe maunga on SH47 is Te Pōrere redoubt where Te Kooti waged the last pā battle of the NZ Wars on 4 October, 1869. Cold and quiet on this winter afternoon. @NewZealandWars

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@JoannaKidman

2 years

Vincent O'Malley wins General Non-Fiction Award. Am in tears! #theockhams

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@JoannaKidman

6 years

Duncan Garner is a fuckwit. #racistmedia @NZStuff @TheAMShowNZ That's my academic opinion.

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@JoannaKidman

3 years

"The past doesn’t always have happy endings and knowing what happened helps us to understand how we live now." My story about history, memory, forgetting, and always, and of course-- Ōrakau

'I follow the trail of blood' | E-Tangata

“In these fields, the tūpuna lie where they fell in the swamps or in unmarked graves hastily dug by survivors, with the dead piled up around them. I swear I can sometimes hear their voices.�� — Joanna...

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@JoannaKidman

3 months

I get that people may disagree with my views but sending me a link to footage of the terrorist attack in Christchurch is illegal.

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11 months

With all the disinfo about NZ history floating about, it would be really nice if a few more pākehā university-based historians wd speak up publicly rather than always leaving it to Māori or to public historians to go into the firing line. But nah 🦗🦗🦗

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5 months

Long-form journalism engaging with actual research. Another bloody good piece from a good bugger @JohnJCampbell

John Campbell: I saw peace, joy and 10,000 people uniting to say 'no'

Yesterday's national hui was a powerful display of Māori unity in the face of the government's proposed Treaty Principles Bill.

www.1news.co.nz

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1 year

We've just heard about a high profile case of burn out. Probably many women are identifying with this today incl those who are overtly racialised in their workplaces. Expressions of gendered hate, alongside everyday misogyny and racism, place us at huge risk. It's time to listen.

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@JoannaKidman

2 years

Geez, listening to the hacking coughing of people running livestreams at Parliament this morning. There are some very unwell people there.

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3 years

Ross Meurant opining (on Stuff) today about how hard it was to be vilified during the 81 Springbok Tour. Oh, cry me a river. The Red Squad were pricks with batons and the source of state-sanctioned 'extreme street violence'. Those bastards beat the shit out of us.

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1 year

@NewshubNZ Seriously?

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3 months

Toitū te Tiriti. Have a good Sunday.

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3 years

Why is @nzherald still using the right-wing NZ Initiative think tank as a primary source for it's reckons on state vs private school education?

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3 years

My paper, which recently won the TASA Best Paper Award, about Māori academics and their complicated roles as critics and conscience of society is now available free

Whither decolonisation? Indigenous scholars and the problem of inclusion in the neoliberal univer...

What is the role of the indigenous critic and conscience of society in the neoliberal university? Much has been written about neoliberalism in higher education ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

I was on the WONAAC frontlines in the 1980s in the defence of NZ abortion clinics and women's right to choose. We were manhandled by police and spat at by SPUC supporters outside the clinic in Pōneke but stood firm. Today I'm an old woman grieving the overturn of Roe v Wade.

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5 months

NZ parliament: Where the media is so prescient, it knows a person's guilt or innocence before a police investigation has been carried out. Before charges are even laid. Women of colour especially- beware, you're always going to be found guilty ahead of the facts.

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3 years

Term starts at Victoria University with cuts to tutoring budgets, cuts to Māori and Pasifika equity tutoring roles, increased class sizes and some reduced offerings. Dual delivery has doubled staff workloads. If you're not a union member, now's the time to sign up with @nzteu

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@JoannaKidman

4 months

THIS is a breach of Te Tiriti carried out in real time, by monsters.

Mordant Das Gerede 🇺🇦 🏴

@JohnDyerCauston

4 months

Fascism in action: Watch live: Māori Health Authority repeal debated under urgency

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3 years

The past 48hours in academia highlight how gender, racial & lateral violence are part of our everyday worlds. UoA has a history of senior men posturing about academic freedom & claiming they are victimised by those they have abused, but it's endemic. This stuff really hurts

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2 years

"But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk" Keri Hulme, 1947 - 2021 Moe mai rā, e kui

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4 months

It's fascinating to see who donates to NZ political parties (and how much). As a sociologist, it's eye-opening to trace the networks of crony capitalism that shape the political landscape of Aotearoa. It really is a fine bro'mance!

Party donations and loans by year

Read the returns of donations and loans that parties send us each year.

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Joanna Kidman

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2 years

There's so much excruciatingly bad academic writing. Some of it mine. Most of it other people's. How did truly shit writing become an academic norm. How hard is it to write a sentence that doesn't cause a migraine?

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4 years

Update on Waikato Museum Shaping Hamilton exhibition. I was pleased to get an email today advising that the poll inviting visitors to vote on invading the Waikato has now been removed. An apology was also issued. This is a great result! Thanks to all who wrote in!

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Joanna Kidman

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3 years

"But why, you might ask, does this kind of esoteric debate over mātauranga Māori really matter?" Stephen May explains just how the dismissal of indigenous knowledge impacts on our lives in real time in the real world

Dismissing mātauranga Māori: Racism and arrogance in academia

The University of Auckland's Stephen May explains how mātauranga Māori is a complementary counterweight to the arrogance and insularity of so much European thought.

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Joanna Kidman

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11 months

*** Breaking scandal*** Mayor brings dog to the office. Oh no, what was she thinking?😲 Srsly, @NZStuff ? Slow news day? (Dudes, get a life😂)

Why Tory Whanau's dog is her latest headache

The Wellington mayor's dog is a regular at the city council offices, but should it be there?

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

3 years

My Sunday morning reading: "The weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centrepiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares to challenge it." Ruby Hamad: White Tears/Brown Scars.

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Joanna Kidman

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3 years

It's weird that in 2021, so many people still don't understand the concept of koha. It's really not that complicated.

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Joanna Kidman

@JoannaKidman

2 years

Things I am learning: People outside academia have meetings. A lot of meetings. Everyday. All day. They talk about stuff. And then they go to other meetings and talk about other stuff. Then they go out for lunch and talk some more. Personally, I'd rather have a yeast infection.

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Joanna Kidman

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3 months

When you get home after a long day... the kererū are dozing in the kowhai trees- and your wonderful, beautiful friends - those incredible scholars you get to spend time with- have sent you a splash of colour and beauty.💞🥹

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I see there's roiling upset about the image of crossed guns but perhaps they should check with the artist (Hint: it's a symbol of partnership after a period of anger & bloodshed). Kinda obvious but this is why we need to teach NZ history in schools. Toitū te Tiriti, dudes🙄

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"Shaming others for being in need effectively releases the Government from its duty of care" Read this excellent piece by Dr Sara Salman (Victoria University of Wellington) and check out her new book: The Shaming State (NYU Press)

Shaming the poor doesn’t work. It’s also cruel.

Opinion: If the goal of benefit sanctions is for people to improve their lives, then sanctions don't work, writes Sara Salman.

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