• 5 min read
A big day and a long walk.
What a year it's been since Friday, huh?
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• 2 min read
Ka hīkoi tātou
The Gaza strip is 41km long, a distance so long to walk and so short to shelter from bombs. 41km is ten laps of Hagley Park.
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• 8 min read
Solutide & Community in Narrm
This piece of writing feels just as massive as the weekend it grew out of. I was lucky enough to travel to Narrm for the 2023 combined AusPATH & PATHA conference.
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• 7 min read
Sharing some joy: my job, the next four years.
Coming up on 12 years ago, a very nervous 17-year old went to see her GP about hormones. Now she's leading training for GPs around the country.
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• 8 min read
Finding Hope in Whakatū
I cross the last bridge and I can hear sound of water gently falling, over and above the sound of water roaring of rocks below me.
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• 2 min read
How you can help: Make it 16 & show up for Gaza
Submit to support reducing the voting age, and attend rallies around the motū with the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa.
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• 8 min read
Where to now, after the disinformation election?
It was a big weekend for Aotearoa, and not the outcome we wanted. It was a concerning election, but with some big wins. What's next for our communities?
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• 4 min read
Trans Walks
Let's go on this hīkoi together.
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• 3 min read
The Importance of Writing Queer Joy
Queer joy is more important than ever.
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• 2 min read
Stuff.co.nz are back at it again, Krispy Kreme
After a few years of better-than-it-was reporting around rainbow issues, Stuff (and the Southland Times) are back at it again today with poor, unethical, and irresponsible reporting about trans folks.
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• 5 min read
Welcome to the Edit
Yes, it’s very original
Read moreJennifer K Shields
The Edit is a mostly-irregular newsletter, a place for some longer-form writing, some series of pieces, a place for thinking aloud, a place for organising and connecting. Haere mai - welcome.
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