Lisa M
@lisam74.bsky.social
Arts producer, researcher, poet, artist, Wikipedian. I'm a white New Zealander living in Aotearoa gratefully because of Te Tiriti o Aotearoa.
He Tangata Tiriti ahau
He Pākehā ahau
Toi Tū Te Tiriti
Toi Tū Te Taiao
Toi Tū Te Reo
Mauri ora
He Tangata Tiriti ahau
He Pākehā ahau
Toi Tū Te Tiriti
Toi Tū Te Taiao
Toi Tū Te Reo
Mauri ora
Yeah! Let's ditch the pie, and have hāngi and a salad instead.
Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yeah! Let's ditch the pie, and have hāngi and a salad instead.
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Couple of branching thoughts before I move on.
As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.
As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Couple of branching thoughts before I move on.
As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.
As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.
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'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
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'Kotuku Sunset' by Kathryn Furniss, contemporary New Zealand based artist #WomensArt
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
'Kotuku Sunset' by Kathryn Furniss, contemporary New Zealand based artist #WomensArt
12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website.
"Wow, just wow"
"Wow, just wow"
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website.
"Wow, just wow"
"Wow, just wow"
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A chance to attend an on-line Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop if anyone is keen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A chance to attend an on-line Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop if anyone is keen.
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Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
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'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
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Andrea Vance has gotten her teeth into this useless, venal, no-ideas govt and she’s not letting go.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them
The government is moving fast: clearing the slums for the sommeliers.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Andrea Vance has gotten her teeth into this useless, venal, no-ideas govt and she’s not letting go.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Took a minute on Parihaka memorial day to read through the wiki page again.
Gotta keep angry, gotta keep fighting for the justice that was denied and is still being denied.
Gotta keep angry, gotta keep fighting for the justice that was denied and is still being denied.
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Took a minute on Parihaka memorial day to read through the wiki page again.
Gotta keep angry, gotta keep fighting for the justice that was denied and is still being denied.
Gotta keep angry, gotta keep fighting for the justice that was denied and is still being denied.
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Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #womensart #caturday
November 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #womensart #caturday
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How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How can citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live event with
- George Monbiot
- Nafeez Ahmed
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Nick Lowles
Finding hope, protecting democracy. 7 pm, 4 November.
Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Shun them
Every country has a powerful right wing that argue “if you tax the wealthy, they’ll leave”
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
We need to start calling their bluff.
We need to make it so the ultra wealthy either contribute enough to be a positive part of society, or be globally shunned and unable to extract further funds from us.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Shun them
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$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
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Better living everyone
Omg elevensies is twice a day! I never thought.
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Better living everyone
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Excellent news about @rkpriestley.bsky.social’s book (not such great news for the planet)
Deal news! Delighted to share that NZ academic & science journalist @rkpriestley.bsky.social's forthcoming "Melting Ice, Rising Seas: How Antarctica’s Ice Sheets are Reshaping our World" has been acquired by @monashuniversity.bsky.social Press in OZ, & will appear from @thwupbooks.bsky.social in NZ!
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Excellent news about @rkpriestley.bsky.social’s book (not such great news for the planet)
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
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#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
Fun jobs on my 'day off'. Updating the website, massaging the schedules, telling people about the show. Un-fun jobs on my day off. Playing phone tag, un packing and repacking the car. Washing the tea towels. #ProducerLife #PerformingArts #TheatreMarae
"Out the Gate" 29 Oct - 16 Nov
"Out the Gate" 29 Oct - 16 Nov
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Fun jobs on my 'day off'. Updating the website, massaging the schedules, telling people about the show. Un-fun jobs on my day off. Playing phone tag, un packing and repacking the car. Washing the tea towels. #ProducerLife #PerformingArts #TheatreMarae
"Out the Gate" 29 Oct - 16 Nov
"Out the Gate" 29 Oct - 16 Nov
Theatre Marae by Te Rākau is to create connections between audiences and truths. "Out the Gate" touring Te Ūpoko o Te Ika is about incarceration in Aotearoa. 29 Oct - 16 Nov 2025
www.terakau.org/out-the-gate
#MāoriTheatre
www.terakau.org/out-the-gate
#MāoriTheatre
Out The Gate - Theatre Marae | Te Rākau
“Out The Gate” by Helen Pearse-Otene presented by Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu.
Theatre Marae conversation about incarceration in Aotearoa. Powerful, uplifting storytelling told with movement, music and...
www.terakau.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Theatre Marae by Te Rākau is to create connections between audiences and truths. "Out the Gate" touring Te Ūpoko o Te Ika is about incarceration in Aotearoa. 29 Oct - 16 Nov 2025
www.terakau.org/out-the-gate
#MāoriTheatre
www.terakau.org/out-the-gate
#MāoriTheatre
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October 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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#NZ if you take pics of storm damage today, consider uploading to Wiki Commons for posterity. Here's a handy guide on how (incl. link to YT guide if that's your jam). The article on the May 2025 storm only has one pic...let's do better!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_202...
www.rove.wiki/blog/uploadi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_202...
www.rove.wiki/blog/uploadi...
Uploading your hīkoi photos — Rove
Today there was an historic protest in Wellington, and everybody was taking photos. How do you add those photos to Wikimedia Commons so they’re part of the permanent record?
www.rove.wiki
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#NZ if you take pics of storm damage today, consider uploading to Wiki Commons for posterity. Here's a handy guide on how (incl. link to YT guide if that's your jam). The article on the May 2025 storm only has one pic...let's do better!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_202...
www.rove.wiki/blog/uploadi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_202...
www.rove.wiki/blog/uploadi...
I am so extremely happy I noticed the blackbird nest outside the window in a lemon tree. Now I can check on the family frequently. There are three baby birds just with fuzz, no feathers.
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I am so extremely happy I noticed the blackbird nest outside the window in a lemon tree. Now I can check on the family frequently. There are three baby birds just with fuzz, no feathers.
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Julia Lucey, contemporary US printmaker who uses traditional etching and aquatint techniques to explore nature, wildness, wilderness #womensart
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Julia Lucey, contemporary US printmaker who uses traditional etching and aquatint techniques to explore nature, wildness, wilderness #womensart