Megan Brady-Clark
@mabc.bsky.social
Dr of the analyse-your-power-structures not the medically-helpful type. Work related to Tiriti law research, justice for sexual violence research, Kōtare Trust. Almost always thinking about food. Tauiwi/pākehā, she/her.
Yes, and the fact that so many men can hold this position is an indictment of how we conceive of sex and consent, including but not only statutory. I can't even remember how many men I've talked to who admitted to actions that were, in fact, rape, but who would never consider themselves rapists.
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Yes, and the fact that so many men can hold this position is an indictment of how we conceive of sex and consent, including but not only statutory. I can't even remember how many men I've talked to who admitted to actions that were, in fact, rape, but who would never consider themselves rapists.
The memes are great, humour can be an effective tool - AND let's also remember that there are real women behind this story.
Epstein survivors PSA. Please SHARE far and wide!
I’m reading “Nobody’s Girl” - heartbreaking, infuriating and a must read. Hold the men to account!
I’m reading “Nobody’s Girl” - heartbreaking, infuriating and a must read. Hold the men to account!
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The memes are great, humour can be an effective tool - AND let's also remember that there are real women behind this story.
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I think everyone knows this already, but always a good reminder that this (avoiding the kind of details that allows them to determine which version was leaked) is crucial to stopping them from narrowing the list of suspects.
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I think everyone knows this already, but always a good reminder that this (avoiding the kind of details that allows them to determine which version was leaked) is crucial to stopping them from narrowing the list of suspects.
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This is a helpful explainer about the groyper stuff.
Violating my "no Bluesky during football season" tenets to parachute in and say that my weird obsession with far right splinter groups and their shibboleths has finally made me the expert on something.
The shooter wrote 4 shitpost memes on bullets and every single one of them is a dumb groyper meme
The shooter wrote 4 shitpost memes on bullets and every single one of them is a dumb groyper meme
September 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is a helpful explainer about the groyper stuff.
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The NZ Law Commission recommends the Human Rights Act be amended to explicitly add two new prohibited grounds of discrimination to "more clearly protect people who are transgender or non-binary or who have an innate variation of sex characteristics." #nzpol
www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/ia-...
www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/ia-...
A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics
www.lawcom.govt.nz
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The NZ Law Commission recommends the Human Rights Act be amended to explicitly add two new prohibited grounds of discrimination to "more clearly protect people who are transgender or non-binary or who have an innate variation of sex characteristics." #nzpol
www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/ia-...
www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/ia-...
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I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
A show at Fringe Bar, a museum exhibition celebrating 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal, and a walk through Zealandia - I reckon I nailed this weekend in Wellington thing.
June 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A show at Fringe Bar, a museum exhibition celebrating 50 years of the Waitangi Tribunal, and a walk through Zealandia - I reckon I nailed this weekend in Wellington thing.
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When powerful men call Aotearoa a "sandbox," ask: who’s being experimented on? Whose data, health, and rights are at stake? Tech deregulation in the name of “investment” puts women, tangata whenua, and marginalised communities at risk. #OnlineHarms #nzpol
Changes intended to encourage overseas investment followed conversations with wealthy American tech leaders.
Big tech wants Luxon to turn NZ into ‘sandbox’
newsroom.co.nz
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
When powerful men call Aotearoa a "sandbox," ask: who’s being experimented on? Whose data, health, and rights are at stake? Tech deregulation in the name of “investment” puts women, tangata whenua, and marginalised communities at risk. #OnlineHarms #nzpol
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Test anxiety’s real, but the results mean we can make better choices! Positive or negative - it’s always best to know.
Fund RAT tests to keep them free and accessible!
#FreeRATs4All
#fund #covidsafe
Fund RAT tests to keep them free and accessible!
#FreeRATs4All
#fund #covidsafe
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Test anxiety’s real, but the results mean we can make better choices! Positive or negative - it’s always best to know.
Fund RAT tests to keep them free and accessible!
#FreeRATs4All
#fund #covidsafe
Fund RAT tests to keep them free and accessible!
#FreeRATs4All
#fund #covidsafe
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I've been using my IG to explain my research in short snippets using easily digestible posts of info. But, uh, I'm no graphic designer lmao 🫠
May 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I've been using my IG to explain my research in short snippets using easily digestible posts of info. But, uh, I'm no graphic designer lmao 🫠
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I simply can't be friends with anyone who doesn't think a woman is a person
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I simply can't be friends with anyone who doesn't think a woman is a person
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Yet another thing to add to the list of events that legitimately should have had the media hounding this government to an early election
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Food prices rise at fastest rate in more than a year - butter up 64 percent
Butter is up a huge 64 percent.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yet another thing to add to the list of events that legitimately should have had the media hounding this government to an early election
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Can anyone please tell me how to get a bit more local stuff and a bit less US-focussed content on Bluesky? Yes, it's Very Bad™ there, but it's also Pretty Fucking Terrible and Getting Worse™ here, and I'd sometimes like to put more of my attention on these local waters that I'm in.
April 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Can anyone please tell me how to get a bit more local stuff and a bit less US-focussed content on Bluesky? Yes, it's Very Bad™ there, but it's also Pretty Fucking Terrible and Getting Worse™ here, and I'd sometimes like to put more of my attention on these local waters that I'm in.
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One thing you realise with the benefit of experience and time is that unfortunately rights won are never rights settled.
Rights are always contingent, precarious, and dependent … a slight shift, not even a major shift, in the window of viable politics will always, forever, threaten loss of them.
Rights are always contingent, precarious, and dependent … a slight shift, not even a major shift, in the window of viable politics will always, forever, threaten loss of them.
Wondering what politicians who don’t think abortion is healthcare think it is.
Actually don’t answer that.
Actually don’t answer that.
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
One thing you realise with the benefit of experience and time is that unfortunately rights won are never rights settled.
Rights are always contingent, precarious, and dependent … a slight shift, not even a major shift, in the window of viable politics will always, forever, threaten loss of them.
Rights are always contingent, precarious, and dependent … a slight shift, not even a major shift, in the window of viable politics will always, forever, threaten loss of them.
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this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd
Last night I dreamt that I visited NY with family. The whole city was covered with Nuka-Cola advertising, and the lift in Trump Tower was broken so all the rich people were being carried up the stairs by poor workers. Anyway, I think I might be a seer.
March 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last night I dreamt that I visited NY with family. The whole city was covered with Nuka-Cola advertising, and the lift in Trump Tower was broken so all the rich people were being carried up the stairs by poor workers. Anyway, I think I might be a seer.
Urgh I'm so sick of defending people I don't like when they're criticised for bullshit racist and/or sexist reasons. Can't y'all just hate on people for the same ideologically-sound reasons that I do?
March 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Urgh I'm so sick of defending people I don't like when they're criticised for bullshit racist and/or sexist reasons. Can't y'all just hate on people for the same ideologically-sound reasons that I do?
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This is an outstanding review of the (Covid) Royal Commission’s findings. For all the response missteps, I remain ever grateful to have been in NZ during the pandemic. And fearful that we won’t learn and prepare well for the next one. #nzpol
Paywall now lifted: Five years on from the first lockdown, Newsroom reads the entire 716-page report of the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response and examines the findings.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/24/w...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/24/w...
What the Royal Commission really said about the Covid response
Special report: Five years on from the first lockdown, Newsroom reads the entire 716-page Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response and examines the findings.
newsroom.co.nz
March 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is an outstanding review of the (Covid) Royal Commission’s findings. For all the response missteps, I remain ever grateful to have been in NZ during the pandemic. And fearful that we won’t learn and prepare well for the next one. #nzpol
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"Speaking for National, Napier MP Katie Nimon argued the bill would clog up the justice system."
have you considered decriminalizing cannabis
Seriously, a great win for Camilla Belich.
have you considered decriminalizing cannabis
Seriously, a great win for Camilla Belich.
'Theft is theft' - Bill making employers theft of workers' wages a crime passes
A Labour member's Bill making it a crime for employers to steal workers' wages has passed in Parliament.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"Speaking for National, Napier MP Katie Nimon argued the bill would clog up the justice system."
have you considered decriminalizing cannabis
Seriously, a great win for Camilla Belich.
have you considered decriminalizing cannabis
Seriously, a great win for Camilla Belich.
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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TAX THE FUCKING CHURCH
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION THE OPERATOR SUBSCRIBES TO
I'm so fucking sick of this
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION THE OPERATOR SUBSCRIBES TO
I'm so fucking sick of this
February 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
TAX THE FUCKING CHURCH
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION THE OPERATOR SUBSCRIBES TO
I'm so fucking sick of this
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION THE OPERATOR SUBSCRIBES TO
I'm so fucking sick of this
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"Disrupted" is far too soft a word here. Any reasonable person would say "attacked".
Transphobic violence has been nurtured and tolerated by parties in government and the entire "concerns about women's safety" brigade, and if they don't condemn it in the strongest terms it's because they support it
Transphobic violence has been nurtured and tolerated by parties in government and the entire "concerns about women's safety" brigade, and if they don't condemn it in the strongest terms it's because they support it
An escalation of transphobic violence from cult and gang leader Brian Tamaki's following, as they assault teenagers - the article claims no injuries, but blood was drawn.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Pride and Rainbow event in Auckland disrupted by Destiny Church
Around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room in a library in West Auckland this afternoon, when a group linked to Destiny Church tried to drown out a Pride Festival Event.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
"Disrupted" is far too soft a word here. Any reasonable person would say "attacked".
Transphobic violence has been nurtured and tolerated by parties in government and the entire "concerns about women's safety" brigade, and if they don't condemn it in the strongest terms it's because they support it
Transphobic violence has been nurtured and tolerated by parties in government and the entire "concerns about women's safety" brigade, and if they don't condemn it in the strongest terms it's because they support it
I recently finished reading The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks - and wow, what a different world we could have if that was what was taught from the pulpits
instead of this hateful, fear-based, toxic, patriarchal version of masculinity.
instead of this hateful, fear-based, toxic, patriarchal version of masculinity.
Destiny Church know full well that they're terrorising a room full of children. They don't care. Can we finally start calling it what it is? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Pride and Rainbow event in Auckland disrupted by Destiny Church
Around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room in a library in West Auckland this afternoon, when a group linked to Destiny Church tried to drown out a Pride Festival Event.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I recently finished reading The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks - and wow, what a different world we could have if that was what was taught from the pulpits
instead of this hateful, fear-based, toxic, patriarchal version of masculinity.
instead of this hateful, fear-based, toxic, patriarchal version of masculinity.
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roses are red
colonialism is theft
colonialism is theft
February 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM
roses are red
colonialism is theft
colonialism is theft
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The vocabulary we need and have not yet got for the atrocities we are witnessing.
These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
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genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Feb. 7
Dictionary lookups from the trade wars, the Grammy Awards, and the high seas
www.merriam-webster.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The vocabulary we need and have not yet got for the atrocities we are witnessing.