Is Barbie feminist... enough?
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A census question on unpaid work
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In the census tonight, I found this question interesting and relevant, given it is International Women’s Day on 8 March.
In the last 4 weeks, which of these have you done, without pay?
Read MoreWrapping up the cost of postpartum healthcare
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Back in January this year, I wrote about the costs of healthcare for babies and mothers. Now we’re at the end of 2022, how much did our postpartum care really cost?
Read MorePeriods should not be painful
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What happens when periods are painful? How do painful periods caused by endometriosis, PCOS or pelvic pain, affect people’s lives?
Read MoreCost of living these days
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We’re in a cost-of-living crisis. What’s it all about, and how can we make our money go further?
Read MoreAllowing ourselves to age
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I was standing in a London changing room, at the age of 26, when it happened.
Read MoreBaby, it's the Covid era
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I’ve been avoiding writing about having a baby in the Covid-era. Like most people, I’m so sick of Covid and all that it’s done to change our interior and exterior worlds.
Read MoreIs healthcare for babies and mothers really free?
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Maternity care in NZ should be free for all residents and citizens. But how much of the post-partum care women/people receive is actually free?
Read MoreGoing back to study: making the leap into a master’s degree at 34
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Going back to uni at 34, to do a master’s degree: the experience so far
Read MoreMental health, mothering and the influence of environment
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Most of what I’ve learned in the last year or so boils down to two things.
Read MoreCan we really know our ancestors?
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Almost twelve years ago, a few days after my Dad died, a woman rang my mother and me.
Read MoreI met my 21-year-old self today
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In one of those rare quiet moments in the evening, I was walking along the footpath to pick up my son from daycare.
Read MoreHow to survive travelling with a toddler
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Tips for making the most of your holiday with a toddler, brought to you from our summer holiday in Nelson-Marlborough.
Read MoreLetting go of 2020
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Reflecting on the year that was 2020: the good bits, the shit bits, and knowing whether to say yes or no.
Read MoreBook review: Pain and Prejudice - chronic illness, pain and its disproportionate impacts on women
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Pain and Prejudice is a book about the structural prejudice that the health system displays towards women’s pain. It’s a memoir about having endometriosis and a powerful history of how medicine has treated women through the ages, and failed to take women’s pain seriously, with often dire outcomes.
Read MoreA petition to fund a biologic drug for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Why another biologic would help the estimated 20,000 New Zealanders living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (including me) achieve a better quality of life.
Read MoreA reading list for resilience in uncertain times
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Here are the top three books I’ve read over the years that have given me resources for resilience or taught me about mental strength.
Read MoreFlexible working arrangements in a post-COVID world
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COVID-19 gave many of us the experience of working from home full time. Will organisations allow us to continue this practice?
Read MoreWhat I've learned from lockdown
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I’m reflecting on what I can take from the Alert level 4 lockdown into this brave new world.
Read MoreLife in the lead-up to Lockdown
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In twenty years time, our families might ask us what we were doing in March 2020, when the whole world stopped, and homes became our safe haven. Who were we living with, what were we worried about? I’ve put together this letter for my son, to give him some idea of life in the lead-up to a COVID lockdown.
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