by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2016 | US Politics, Women
8 March is International Women’s Day. Although women have made enormous strides towards equality just in my lifetime, there are still millions of women who are subjugated and even in the West, still plenty of anti-women laws. There are many countries I could...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 7, 2016 | Middle East, Women
This should be this week’s Auē Tēnei Wiki, because it really does deserve a big face palm, but the title is long enough already. From MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) we have another example of the kind of delusion often spread about the West in the...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 22, 2015 | Auē a Tau Kē, Middle East, Terrorism, Women
On Friday I spent a couple of hours going through the latest issue of Dabiq, DAESH’s on-line magazine. They released it last week to boast of the murders, injuries, and terror they have inflicted anew on the world. The events in Paris and the downing of the...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 27, 2015 | Democracy, Human Rights, Middle East, Winners and Worries, Women
For my Worry of the Week, I’d like to draw your attention to a film that was brought to my attention by Dermot C., a commenter on the Why Evolution is True website. It’s called Women on the Front Line and was produced last year by Sheema Kalbasi, directed...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 11, 2015 | Atheism, Religion, Women
There are probably some people out there that think even asking whether God is gay is blasphemy, or at least disgraceful and insulting, so there are couple of things I unfortunately have to say before I even start. Firstly, being gay is normal; it is simply less...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2015 | Democracy, Human Rights, New Zealand, Religion, Women
The celebration of an International Women’s Day was first proposed at an international socialist women’s conference in August 1910. It was partly inspired by a women’s day celebrated by the Socialist Party of America in New York the previous year....
