Sitemap - 2024 - Dr Bex on Social Issues in Aotearoa NZ

Libertarian laws by stealth

Vibes as "policy"

Wednesday joy

Defunding the social sciences

Wednesday joy

Blake's Birthday Bash Stream

Solidarity and kotahitanga

A Life is Worth Living: Disability Advocacy, Dignity, and End-of-Life Decisions

What is it about gardening

I am tired of consultation

Unpicking embedded colonialism

Disability updates

Navigating the propaganda firehose

Visible solidarity

There will be a backlash

Toitū te Tiriti

Literary and fictional works contribute value beyond storytelling

Alcohol is no solution for what ails us

On the need for shenanigans

Polite fictions and everyday racism

Rest is important

This government keeps showing a lack of care for disabled children

Children living at the intersection of poverty and disability

Societal attitudes on disability support

It's the little things

Moments of joy

For Mental Health Awareness Week, Health NZ removes supports for child mental health

My Substack Summer, err, Winter??

Enabling Good Lives vs Abuse in State Care

Tangihanga and healing

Toast is back on the menu

Disability Advocates call on Minister to be honest about her intentions.

Leaked document shows plans to restrict residential care for disabled people and cut allocated budgets

The cruelty of punitive sanctions

We didn't vote for this

A bruising week in the disability sector

Finding joy

Ordinary, everyday lives

The politics of distraction

Moral injury in the disability sector

Mānawatia a Matariki!!

Human Rights Measures and Indicators

A little thoughtfulness goes a long way

This government is making things harder, not better, for disabled children and their families

My child is home from school again

On giving well-meaning advice in a time of austerity

The cruelty of a thousand cuts

School lunches, hot meals, and supporting the flourishing of children

Child disability data and life outcomes

We need to trust parents

Fostering communal hope and other strategies

A wee bit of joy

A week of the grim

Assistive technology is inclusion

School lunches are about more than food

Waitangi Day 2024