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Jo

@dreadwomyn.bsky.social
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Delightfully acerbic, brazen, queer, pākehā, deeply curious about understanding our practices as Tangata Tiriti. through a colonial class lens. Honour Te Tiriti - return stolen land, dismantle colonial systems of power.

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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A rural Waikato map of Auckland city...
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Coming to Kirikiriroa on Tuesday, 29 April: 12 - 2 pm at Te Kohao Health on Wairere Drive. Get along there and meet the team as they make their way to Wellington. healthreformnz.org
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Stoked to be working with @heathercame.bsky.social on this gathering. Stepping into radical cronehood has me reaching for my needlepoint hoops!
Poster featuring a stylised image of Rosie thr Riveter with  the title "Stepping into radical cronehood"
**5pm start – 2pm finish**

23-25th May 2025

Sliding scale $250-500

Register: joyaratima@gmail.com

Co-facilitated by: Jo Wrigley and Heather Came

Kōtare Centre for Social Change, Wayby Valley, North Auckland

Stepping into radical cronehood

A weekend residential gathering/retreat for women to yarn, share stories, reflect, craft, and strategize how to use our individual and collective powers to create more justice in the world.

Fundraiser for:Kōtare Research and Education for Social Change
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Besotted with the Victorian era terrace houses of Fitzroy North. Bye Melbourne, it's been lovely.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Ugh.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Dahlias! #putiputi
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Works for me.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The Gladiola are on fire this summer! #nzgardens
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas day visitations with John and Levon. 🐕 Levon is the goodest doggo visitor. He lives with 6 cats so knows his place in the world and maintains an air of indifference learned from his cat fam.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
ChandlerBing dropped a present in our bed. Weta safely outside in the punga, 2 humans wide awake still. 🐱
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Today I cleared the kitchen table. Freedom from 2 months' worth of belongings dumped there in haste and busyness. Then, flowers because the table looked naked when the clutter was cleared lol.
A posie of roses, rhododendrons, daisies and Queen Anne's lace in a glass vase.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Trifle time of year. Still soaking up the goodnesses.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Moonlight in Morrinsville.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The berry season started! If it runs true to course, there will be zero berries on the canes by 24 December or, at best, not enough to do anything fabulous with......
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bonus discovery of yellow Alstroemeria & sweetpeas in the garden today 🌼
Yellow and purple flowers in a yellow vase surrounded by treasures.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I 💚 hydrangeas , they're starting to pop and this one has returned as a vibrant blue.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Love me a Community Sector submissions party! #Kirikiriroa #ToitūTeTiriti
Together for Te Tiriti Submission Party 11 December 12.30 - 2.30pm 931 Victoria Street, Kirikiriroa.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Saturday vibes.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Yesterday's team adventure led us to Rangiriri - unlearning colonial war stories & comprehending the devastating impacts of invasion. It was a big day for us all. #toitū ##tetiriti
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A day of plentiful flag hugs toitū ✊️💛
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Waiting for my friends and watching the stream of people walking towards Waitangi Park in Whanganui-a-tara. I've been looking out the window for 20 minutes and it's building. #ToitūTeTiriti Aroha me te kotahitanga ✊️💛
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tuatara in Whanganui-a-tara. It's my first time seeing one just lying there uncaged and unbothered.
Tuatara sunbathing.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The march in Kirikiriroa is the biggest I have experienced in the 25 years I have lived in Waikato rohe. Today I arrived in Te Whanganui-a-tara ready to rejoin the hīkoi on Tuesday. ✊️💛
The statue of Dame Hilda Ross shows their support for Toitū Te Tiriti.  Pūoro & Pūkana.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Solidarity is love. Toitū Te Tiriti ✊️💛
The Go Eco team catching a quick post hiikoi photo op - Kirikiriroa.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Not our cat. Lovely, affectionate floofball who chooses our deck for his daytime napping and pats. 🐈
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
ChandlerBing as SleepyKitty. 🇳🇿😽
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
This cat is a puzzle. 🇳🇿🐈
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
That time, Go Eco rescued giant pumpkins from a pumpkin growing competition and donated some of them to the zoo.
A small black monkey standing on a giant pumpkin.A tiger trying to hold or cradle a giant pumpkin.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Pleased with my bike month efforts, I completed my longest ever ride at 56km for the day, exceeded my target of 10km a week, trialed a new bike, and fell in love with it. Just need to practice getting it on the front of the bus now!
5 people standing with their bicycles in front o$ a Go Eco branded food rescue truck.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
ChandlerBing 🐯🇳🇿
A Black and White cat looking directly at the camera.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
My friend and I are missing whirligigs.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
New textbook is not mincing its words.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Sleepy cat. ChandlerBing is enjoying the cooler weather. #AotearoaPets #😽
Black and white cat sleeping on the arm of a floral fabric covered couch.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Jalapeños are doing their thing. #marakai
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Talking about indoor outdoor temperatures, today seems like fun. 95% humidity outdoors, we are a tropical Pacific island and need to stop pretending otherwise. Thankfully, it's less humid indoors.
Graphic showing temperature data outdoorsIndoor humidity meter.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
Ngaa mihi o te raa! Whiti mai te raa, fingers crossed for heke te ua i teenei raa.
A flaming sunrise sky. Photographed 15 Hanuere 2024. Morenawhira, Waikato.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Name a fictional character you believe would appear on the Epstein list.
Glen Gulia from the Wedding Singer.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Today, we did a thing alongside the newly opened SH25 to Tairua and Whangamata. Lots of toots and waves 👋 Te Tara o te Ika a Māui (Coromandel) is too precious to mine!
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
#trifleclub, we did it! Dairy free trifle, bacardi mixed with peanut juice, mango & passionfruit jelly, mango puree, coconut yogurt whipped with coconut cream, shredded fresh pineapple, delish!
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Had a cleaning spasm and rearranged the lounge. ChandlerBing is a bit discombobulated. 🐈 #AotearoaPets
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
New jandals and sweetpeas, summer break is on. #raumati
Sky blue jandals with gold straps and pattern under pink and purple sweet pea flowers.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Meet in Wellington central they said........ everything will be walkable they said . . . ⛈️⚡️🌩💨🌪
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Burritto and their favorite blanket. #NZpets 😻😽
Grey and white cat looking at the camera while lying on a Grey faux fur blanket.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Tangata Tiriti show up and get in the back, that's me tomorrow in Kirikiriroa ✊🏽
Poster published by Te Pati Māori. Rally at Rifle Range roundabout, Five Cross Roads, Wayward Pigeon Roundabout, Braemar Hospital, The Base, Hillcrest Roundabout 5 December2023, 7.30 - 8.30am. Bring flags.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Watching high school passengers with their vapes at the back of the bus, another flashback to the 80s except we smoked for reals and the bus driver did too. 😳 everything is so B2TF right now. #BackToTheFuture
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Beautiful day to catch a bus. Whizzing from Mōrenawhira to Kirikiriroa. A lovely change from being amongst all of those speeding on road weapons we call cars.
Photo taken from a 2nd row seat that shows the drivers view of a sunny Waikato sky.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Burritto missed me 😻
Grey and white cat glaring at the camera.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
The organisation I work for generates income from retail. We produced these posters for Black Friday. Consumerism is a colonial capitalist illness. Acknowledging the work of Parakore educating communities about waste and consumption. They're the best!
Poster titled Derail Consumerism. Includes the words "Black Friday is a lazy marketing strategy created to clog our minds with false
messaging about how buying new stuff will
make us happy.
Messages that fool us into thinking we 're
getting 'a deal'
Reject Black Friday.Investigate the systems that underpin our
western way of life and the exploitative and
wasteful impact on people and planet.
Reject Black Friday
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
TBF, theoretically, we could have had a new government on 6 November, yet here we are, gifting plastic waste to journalists & mocking people who seek accountability.
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Jo @dreadwomyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Oof - so many perfect albums when I was 21 - Perfect is a strong word though - listened to the most and owned is more accurate.
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction album coverINXS - Kick album coverThe Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God - Album Cover.Bad Religion - Suffer- Album Cover.
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