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March 25, 2023 - TERF piece of shit Posie Parker had to cut her transphobic event in Auckland, New Zealand, short after a huge crowd of locals decided to run her fascist ass out of town, and she was covered in tomato sauce.

She was so shaken by the event she ended her entire transphobic tour of Australia and New Zealand, which so far had mostly proven popular with literal neo-nazis, and fled the country entirely. Good job, Auckland! [video]/[video]

You know how in Lord of the Rings and Narnia and other films shot in New Zealand, the scenery looks like it’s got a big sparkly filter added over it in editing? Yeah well went to a river yesterday and it actually just looks like that

Milford Sound by Tim Jordan Photography on Flickr.

MIDDLE-EARTH + Scenery [Part XVII] THE HOBBIT/THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Misty Mountains

My Middle-earth Journey  ❁

New Zealanders: Chill as Aussies, but with wildlife that assumes there are no natural predators so everything is friendly and fair game.

Keas on pop.

True leadership.

Every fucking President needs to take a page out of her book.

While I’m here, these are just a few things I want followers who aren’t in New Zealand and don’t know what it’s like here to know:

1. The prime minister, and now most media outlets here, HAVE labelled it as an act of terrorism from someone with extremist views. No one is saying he’s mentally ill, and no one is saying he’s a lone wolf.

2. This is most likely the biggest terror attack in New Zealand in nearly 30 years. (Edit: its officially the worst mass shooting in the entire history of the country. I’m sick). This isn’t just another mass shooting for us, and we’re all panicked for a reason.

3. With 49 confirmed dead now, it’s guaranteed we’ll at least know someone who knows someone who was in that mosque. It’s a small country.

4. While they’re not perfect, the police here aren’t corrupt. They are here to help anyone who feels unsafe, and they will be taking measures to keep Muslims safe especially. Already they’re not letting white people into the mosque in my city.

Please, stay safe everyone, and please read reputable sources before reblogging every little thing you see about this.

WorldRugby Haka time at the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 semi-final

i like how they must have said to the white menbers at some point “yeah becky yall gon do this too get up we all have to learn”

Actually most New Zealanders (white and non white) learn this as children at school and with their friends. Like Kiwi culture’s really a mix of indigenous and non-indigenous elements so there’s not that much cultural segregation as you would have in the states

I’m white as a chicken and mayo sandwich and I learned two or three haka at school. If I’d joined the kapa haka group it would have been more and certainly wouldn’t have been the only white person doing so.

#also if I was the opposite team I would be “WELL WE ARE FUCKED :)”

That is 1000% the point of the Haka. Here’s a really good explanation of it.

I’ve never seen women doing the Haka before and holy shit I’m in love

When I did kapa haka at school, lo these many years ago now (ok about 15), I was taught that it was tikanga in most iwi that women didn’t do the haka (as men don’t do the karanga at pōwhiri). That seems to be changing, which is neat, but it’s very much something that’s up to wahine Māori to change and Pākehā women to follow their lead on, like the varying tikanga on women speaking on the marae. 

(but also v agreed that it is incredibly common for Pākehā in NZ to have learned at least some elements of Māori performing arts/kapa haka, if they’re under 40; if a white person in NZ has never done that they’re either an adult immigrant or exclusively attended posh private schools, and even the last might not apply these days. The average non-Māori-speaking NZer understands 80-100 words of te reo. American norms of segregation do not apply.)