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Tess Maxwell

@tessmaxwell.bsky.social
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Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her) toitū te tiriti & free Palestine

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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Super stoked to have an article published with Platform: Journal of Media and Communication in a special @aanzca.bsky.social issue. “STOP PRESS – Not abortion again”: Disrupting linear time through archival analysis of Broadsheet magazine   Thanks to everyone involved! platformjmc.com/anzca-2026/
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ANZCA 2026
PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication ANZCA VOL 10.2 Issue 2026 platformjmc September 2026 Editorial Brittany Craig, Iván Kirschbaum & Jingxian You – University of Melbourne Negotiating …
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
OK this latest press release from the ICC has seriously pissed me off. The VERY FIRST World Cup in 1973 was entirely umpired by women. Maybe pause a minute from puffing yourselves up to read a history book? (I can recommend a good one... 😂) www.icc-cricket.com/media-releas...
This marks the first time in tournament history that a Women’s Cricket World Cup will be officiated entirely by women, a feat made possible by the ICC’s work across many years to support, elevate and empower women in cricket.
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in! raukawa moana looking almost cosy from archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa nz
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Shame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/8...
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Taiaroa Lighthouse
Collection: Otago Daily Times Collection | Read the full record details for Snapshop Photo: Taiaroa Lighthouse
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WomenAotearoaNZ @weavinghouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“As for so-called "civility"-this is 1 more way wealthy white women silence dissent. I refuse to be "civil" in the face of incivil policies & legislation that target working class women. This is class war & deserves to be treated as such. Civility has no place in this attack on the working classes.”
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Te Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu! #toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori #NZPol
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BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
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RAWIRI • HANA • DEBBIE SET TO BE SUSPENDED FROM PARLIAMENT ON TUESDAY 20H MAY
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BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Found it. 'The Impact of Equal Pay on Poverty and the Economy', a report put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which shows that "Providing equal pay to women… would cut [family] poverty in half, falling from 8.0 percent to 3.8 percent". iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers” @rtraister.bsky.social
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
the stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far so tropical/shades ✨️ www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6Fgz...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin
Protestors gathered in support of trans rights
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Oh hey Erica Stanford lied to us again, the "replacement" relationship and sexuality guidelines have removed all mention of gender diversity, don't include menstruation until year 7, and erase Māori / Pasifika perspectives, so get your submission typing fingers ready insideout.org.nz/make-an-urge...
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Make an urgent submission on the draft Relationship and Sexuality Education Framework today – before submissions close 9 May 2025 - InsideOUT |
Changes are coming to Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools and we’re concerned about what has been proposed by the Government. We believe the draft RSE framework as it stands, is dee...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read: "sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience" (Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Always in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa. thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0...
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A trans history of gay liberation in New Zealand
Trans women – particularly Māori trans women – were 'the very first freedom fighters in the gay movement'.
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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The moment Peters and his ilk start addressing our rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, pay equity, safeguarding access to abortion…is the moment I say Well done, now you’re addressing women’s rights. Cis men are the biggest predators of cis women. The end.
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Cate Owen @cateowen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954 📷 K V Bigwood From archives nz: ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#nzpol This seems a little bit important. "On 28 March 2025, the Ministry published a discussion document: Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation." Submissions due 30 April www.health.govt.nz/publications...
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Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation | Ministry of Health NZ
This discussion document considers options for modernising New Zealand’s regulation of the health workforce. It supports public consultation on this topic.
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912 📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035) www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the...
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The loss of so many highly-skilled staff from Archives NZ and the National Library will inevitably have a detrimental impact for researchers. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
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Job cuts on the way for Department of Corrections and Archives NZ, union says
The PSA said the changes would lead to a net loss of 49 roles at Corrections including in health and safety and learning and development.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Learning stuff here everyday. ✨ Did you know that the Great Exhibition here in Ōtepoti Dunedin got more than 3 million visitors? With the last exhibition in 1925 - exactly 100 years ago. Apparently with all the tram tickets sold, they built the current Dunedin town hall. 😱
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This beautiful album turns 9 today 🌻 malesmalesmales.bandcamp.com/album/none-t...
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None the Wiser, by Males
9 track album
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do you live near a women's suffrage memorial? Help researchers at Aix-Marseille uni to map it alongside hundreds of others. Celebrate and value global histories of democracy and feminist activism - a powerful message given ebbing support in the twenty-first century framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...
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Sites of Suffrage Memory: a HerStory Maps project
This map seeks to **geolocate the memorials to the Women's Suffrage Movement ** all over the world. --- It is a small contribution to the decades-long effort by activists and scholars to raise publi...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
& brothers island lighthouse was the last manned in aotearoa - till 1990 watercolour by j frost, 1877 natlib.govt.nz/records/2307...
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pencarrow Lighthouse - aotearoa's first permanent lighthouse (1858) & also the only ever to have had a woman as keeper This Pic from 1981 📷: unknown Archives NZ ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/Del...
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today, I highlight some very real shortcomings in Deloitte's Health NZ review - from my perspective. Given the report was released by Simeon Brown as justification for Nationa's accelerated privatisation of Health, how seriously should we even take its contents? #nzpol #healthnz #kiwi #deloitte
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5 Extraordinary Revelations From Deloitte's Health NZ Review
The report revealed more from what it omitted, than what it covered
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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Here’s the thing, you don’t actually have to report what Brian Tamaki says. You could just describe his and his followers actions as what they are, homophobia and transphobia.
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Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My critique of TERF appropriations of Broadsheet (NZ) magazine - couldn't organise open access so please dm for link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Cool articles from way back when’: appropriations and reanimations of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet
This article addresses ‘transition’ within feminist media activism by exploring how archival material is reanimated and mobilized within contemporary forms of online activism. Recent scholarship ex...
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/03/2025
When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/02/2025
Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
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Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure...
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