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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Annette and I say thank you so much for responding so beautifully to the Xmas fundraiser shout out x givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Kia Ora koutou - Taking a chance that you’ll see this. We’re doing our annual Xmas fundraiser and we need around $8000 so if you could pop $ in, + share, that would help greatly Jackie x givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

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The Aunties Christmas Appeal

Providing funds so that the Aunties whānau of women, and their kids and grandkids, have a great Xmas.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Sorry! My number is 027 522 8115 - or email whaeapower@aunties.co.nz

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Kia Ora community. We’re doing a blanket drive at the mo- whanau women won’t use heaters/heat pumps bc $ solution is blankets. WH has sale on www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/living-co-... Text me 02753228115 and I’ll give you my address to deliver to. Ty x

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

If everyone could please repost this and share it on ur social media please…. Until we figure out how to link it from our website main page… This is absolutely everything the women need right now - furniture etc… aunties.co.nz/pages/wants-...

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Wants and Needs

This is our current list of wants and needs (May 2025). Please message Jackie at whaeapower@aunties.co.nz and she'll put you directly in contact with the woman who needs whatever you have. We are ab...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This morning I had two very special visitors. And they coincidentally came pretty much at the same time. It was such a special and joyous thing. Bc the aunties whānau women v rarely see each other offline. These photos are used with their express permission.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Clementine Fraser is a history teacher and scholar. She wrote this piece yday -long form - about our plunging into fascism. What it looks like. What history teaches us. Pls read it and share it. clementinefraser.com/2025/04/24/w...

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Warnings from the past

I wish people knew more history Every year I teach about Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Stalin’s Russia. I teach about Slavery in the USA and the evils of segregation. I teach about the long impa…

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My friend Clem is a history teacher and scholar. She’s written this astounding piece which draws direct correlation btw the Nazis and what’s happening right now…. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

And I’d add this. If you’re against all this anti trans bullshit, you need to speak out. Do it for the kids. So many trans kids frightened right now. Some of them will have loving families, some will not. I think they need to hear your voices. I think that’s important. Just a challenge x

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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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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

1/4 One of the auntie’s Whānau women in abusive rship. It’s been a yr but he indicated v early on that he was abusive. She messages me that he smashed her phone, the 2nd one. She comes to see me, we talk 2 hrs.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

1/4 Trauma stays in the body. This morning she messages to ask me to take her to the medical clinic. She has been super anxious for a while. Overwhelmed. Tried all her strategies. Nothing works. Can’t breathe. Nausea. Dizziness. She’s scared. Thinks she will die.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I haven’t seen her in person for over a year. Major depression. Anxiety. CPTSD kicking her arse. A lot of kids, both hers and whangaied. An older teen who externalises his pain and anger in harmful ways. But since last yr she’s been seeing an ACC accredited therapist. And that is huge.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

1/3 Today Arena Williams, the MP for Manurewa (Labour) came with her communications advisor Charlotte to my house to talk about the whānau women’s concerns (which they had fed back to me), and to ask my thoughts on everything that’s going on under this government.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Took Iggy to visit Annette today. In her v own house. First time since she left the violence 8 yrs ago that’s she’s in her own place. Emergency and transitional housing all this time. Overjoyed for her.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It’s only 5 wks til Easter. Wanna be one of our Easter Bunnies? 27 women, 97 kids and grandkids to share chocolatey joy with…. Msg me if you’re keen.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1. A story, told with her full permission. TW - I allude to CSA without naming it. Years ago, she tells me about a particular time when a particular unspeakable thing happened, at a time when many unspeakable things were happening to her.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m occasionally asked to provide guidance and advice to people like Eileen. Around the dynamics of family violence and ways of working that are useful to ppl who staying at a safe house. She also wants to work on making it a safe space for trans ppl. Disabled ppl. Broadening accessibility.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This morning I went to meet with Eileen who’s just been given the job of running the Te whānau Rangimārie safehouse. And Matala and Krissy who’ve worked for TWR for yrs. I’m on the board, and I’ve been involved with TWR for around 8 years.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Are you looking for designer clothes? Want yr $ to benefit us? ❤️ ppl have given range of designer 👗 + 🛍️ to sell on ….check out silent auction form + get bids in… Bids close 8pm 21 Mar + we email you following week. Payment by 28 Mar. Any ? to admin@aunties.co.nz docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Aunties Silent Auction

Please use this form to complete your bids in our silent auction. The highest bid will will win the item. Some items (art prints and Aunties Undies we have more than one, and this will go to the highe...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Linda hasn’t been well for a while so I haven’t seen her for a couple of months. She is genuinely one of my favourite people in world. The great great great granddaughter of Tawhiao, the first Māori king. Used with her permission.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Much love and many thanks to @thisiscorey.bsky.social for putting your body on the line for us today! You reached the goal, and we are so appreciative.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Lovely Corey is doing the Round the Bays for us again this year. Pop some $ in. Or maybe you could do it for us too! rtbauckland25.grassrootz.com/the-aunties/...

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Corey Johnson in Southern Cross Round the Bays Auckland 2025

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 26/02/2025

More than 500 children in state care were physically, sexually or emotionally harmed last year, according to the Independent Children's Monitor.

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Oranga Tamariki not meeting minimum care standards five years on

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For those interested. For those who have wondered exactly what the intensive work I do, looks like. And if it is safe.

Kia Ora community.
We are making a specific application to get funding for my salary - at the moment, we have some wonderful regular donors to that but we have had a number of people had to drop off because their circumstances have changed.
So there’s a large gap.

Anyway, I had asked my professional supervisor to give some specific feedback on the safety of my work. I am not specifically academically qualified to do this work - I am not a Counsellor, a therapist, or a social worker. I don’t claim to be, and I am very careful to make sure that I don’t overstep those boundaries. After 12 years of doing this, I know my lane.

But what is that lane, you may well ask.

I often talk about the intensive work I do with the aunties whānau women. But what does that look like?

I would like to share with you what she said so that you may better understand what this work of mine actually looks like.

“Since August 2017 I have been supervising Jackie Clark’s work under the auspices of The Aunties Board of Trustees.
Jackie’s ongoing contribution to keeping safe the women she works with involves treading a fine compassionate line along the interface between dependency (financial and emotional) and growth towards self-responsibility and dignified assertiveness.
One of Jackie’s difficult triaging decisions hinges around this assessment of each woman. And her willingness to grow and change her life.
The main work is always to do with Psycho-Education, building boundaries, assertiveness and Identity formation beyond victimhood.
This transformation involves a carefully titrated mixture of trust and vulnerability along with skilfully delivered challenges and resources to develop self-agency, to stand up for themselves and their children.
Alongside of this, Jackie’s work and careful focus has been instrumental in assisting most of the women to begin Counselling for childhood trauma. This of course has the powerful knock on effect of empowering both self awareness and safer parenting.
This ongoing process raises self-esteem, self-agency, and safer parenting practices.
With a spin off for healthier relationships for the next generations.
In my view, this work is outstanding in keeping women safe.”

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Lovely Corey is doing the Round the Bays for us again this year. Pop some $ in. Or maybe you could do it for us too! rtbauckland25.grassrootz.com/the-aunties/...

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Corey Johnson in Southern Cross Round the Bays Auckland 2025

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

She’s starting ACC sensitive claims therapy tomorrow. She’s terrified that the Therapist won’t believe her. It takes her so much to open up to anyone who’s not me or her sons. I reassure her that she will be believed. She cries. What if they don’t? she says.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I met a woman on TikTok. She has a very small cleaning company. She lives in Whangaparaoa. I met her. She gets it. Going through it herself. She’s going to clean Kiri’s house monthly. For free. #goodpeoplemet

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

FGC, family group conferences, a tokenistic not often useful mechanism used by OT to check the Family voice box. Hui Ā whanau - a mechanism id never heard of before, and just taken part in. Excellent. This from a facilitator: let’s give her a piece of our hearts and not our minds.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Akl only. Does anyone have a working fridge they’d want to donate? M’s fridge has died and she can’t afford hire purchase at the moment. Please message me 0275228115 and I will put you in direct contact with her. Thanks so much.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

We seem to be in a place in the world right now w big bad things happening all at the same time. I offer a small win. None of the women did well academically, too much trauma, a lot of them told they’re “dumb”. Those once critics proved wrong by genetics. Fonua. Yr 9 Class president.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A snapshot. What it looks like when ppl like Jago wreak their havoc. A men’s group. They’re telling their truth. 97% have been SAed. All of them have been in prison. All of them are recovering addicts. None of them have yet found their peace.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

In the last 30 yrs, I have not had had many positive interactions with OT. This morning was different. Why? Because the meeting was with two lovely humans who work under OT in capacity as kairāranga ā whanau. And as per, anything that comes from a te ao Māori perspective is what works best.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Would this be a good time to say hi new followers? Would it be a good time to ask if you want to become a regular donor? You get a tax receipt! You get to contribute to the sustained material support of 28 women healing from violence! THE AUNTIES 12-3019-0022633-00

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Kia Ora koutou. Musk is a Nazi and we’re not down with that. Twitter acc is just a placeholder. Don’t message it. Thanks.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My truth. I hope you can speak yours sometime soon.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

1/4 She comes to visit me with the kids. One is now 10, and one 16. They both hate going to their father. He is a cunt in a cardigan. A little white man, seemingly mild of manner. A wealthy man who made sure they’ve lived without, to punish their mum.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A koha from one of the women. It’s the framed poem that she wrote for the aunties community.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

1/3 I have shared Lisa’s poetry with you before. This is one she has written as a gift for all of you, and particularly those who have touched her personally over the years…

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

1/5 I dont talk a whole lot about Aunty Phil and that’s remiss of me. Because most people are dispensable, professionally, but Phil is not.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Thank you so much to those people who have contributed so far to our Christmas fundraiser. If you haven’t yet, and you’d like to, well here we are! Your financial koha goes DIRECTLY to the women... Every month. givealittle.co.nz/cause/santas...

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Santa’s Little Helpers | Meri Kirihimete 2024

Supporting The Aunties Whānau to have a Christmas filled with joy and love.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We are tremendously proud of the women for so many things, but in particular for their parenting. This is a post of celebration. A celebration of the whānau kids, and of the women. Please enjoy the montage of photos posted with permission on our Facebook page… m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1/3 On Friday, I’m doing a celebratory post about the whanau kids. The women having been sending me photos and some words to go alongside. One of the women has sent some words, and a story her daughter has written. I’d like to share those with you, with her permission.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Came down to storage unit with Donna and Bella. Bella found a treasure, she found several treasures. She always does. And Donna, who is not a wearer of dresses ever, found a beautiful dress to wear on Christmas Day

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1/2 This morning I was on my regular scheduled video call with one of the women and we were talking about her 14 yr old daughters (who o used to teach so I know her well) lack of self confidence and how she was focusing on her healing, as she has with her older girls.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Kia Ora Koutou, just advising our lovely community of donors that we aren’t taking any more material donations for the year. They will restart at the beginning of February. If you’d like to donate $ instead, pls deposit in our Aunties bank account. THE AUNTIES 12-3019-0022633-00 Thanks so much!

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I met Kiri when she was running the Manurewa Womens refuge. Would have been about 7-8 years ago I think. Her circs changed and now she’s a vital part of not only the aunties whānau but also the entire shebang. She pops in all the time. Also, she’s Iggy’s favourite person in the whole world.

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The Aunties @theaunties.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m doing a fb next week about the whānau kids achievements. I know Lana has shared the vid on Twitter of her girls doing a haka for their sister. I am fiercely proud of that child. I have been there with her at some shit points in these last yrs. She has come so far.

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