K Road naked protester: ‘I was feeling the violence towards all women’

Protester and performance artist Jazmine Rose Phillips talks to Anke Richter about the assault and police inaction which led to her naked protest on Karangahape Road. NB: The following images contain nudity  Last week, performance artists Kyah Dove and Jazmine Rose Phillips stood naked and covered in fake blood in front of St Kevin’s Arcade … Read more

The Friday Poem: ‘The man who wanted to stroke my hair’ by Elizabeth Smither

New verse by New Plymouth writer Elizabeth Smither.   The man who wanted to stroke my hair   The St Kilda tram. Bright summer air. Breeze through the window gap, stirring all manner of motes, tendrils of hair lifting their traces on my neck. Fine hairs of a different sort, underneath. Antennae not needed for … Read more