I’m writing this in September 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging for 20 months or so. There’s been almost 230 million cases, and 4.7 millions deaths, according to the World Health Organisation. Here in New Zealand / Aotearoa, where I live, we’ve had 3,763 cases and 27 deaths and 37.5% of the population is …
Waking Up and White Supremacy. Do your Work.
This story begins with a black woman in London, an essential worker, a mother, a wife, a friend, a sister… She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have died of Covid-19. If it weren’t for this new disease, she would likely still be alive. And possibly, if she wasn’t a black woman, …
Todd Muller, Panic Attacks and the Shame of Mental Illness
The front page article of the Herald on Saturday was a sympathetic interview with Todd Muller, he who was National leader for 53 days, and his wife Michelle. ‘I had anxiety. I experienced that quite severely and I had panic attacks,’ says Muller in the article. This is a man who has been involved in …
