Episode 1: Erin Jackson
Website: Gender Justice Collective
Website: Project Gender
GJC Submission to the Health Select Committee, June 2021
Petition of Angela Meyer for The Gender Justice Collective: Create a National Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Action Plan
Episode 2: Cooper Sides
Article: Including pronouns in email signatures helps remove anxiety for LGBTQIA+ community in workplace
Website: TAKATĀPUI.NZ IS A RESOURCE HUB FOR TAKATĀPUI AND THEIR WHĀNAU
(Takatāpui is a traditional Māori term meaning ‘intimate companion of the same sex.’
It has been reclaimed to embrace all Māori who identify with diverse genders, sexualities and sex characteristics)
Instagram post re pronouns
Website: Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a nationwide transgender organisation. It is run by and for transgender people; including binary and non-binary, intersex, and irawhiti takatāpui.
Website: Te Ngākau Kahukura - We are a national initiative that works to make communities, environments and systems more safe and inclusive for rainbow people.
We work collaboratively with professionals, organisations and wider systems that support people across Aotearoa, including health, housing, social, education and justice.
Website: OutLine is an all-ages rainbow mental health organisation providing support to the rainbow community, their friends, whānau, and those questioning. We provide a nationwide, free and confidential 0800 support line for people who want to speak to a trained volunteer from the rainbow community.
Episode 3: Fran Kewene (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto)
Fran Kewene (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a lecturer at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Wellington. They identify as a cis-gender Māori wahine (woman), mana wahine (ia, them they). Fran’s work is located within her identity as a colonised – Māori/British – wahine, exploring 'ko wai au - self', anti-racist praxis, Indigenisation, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in action. Fran brings their experiences as a Māori health promoter, health protection officer, and theatre deviser to their teaching practice, and research.
Fran, thank you for sharing your story.
Barrier Ninja by Fran Kewene
Fran Kewene Profile | Te Herenga Waka (Victoria University)
Episode 4: George Parker
George’s profile at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University
The Trans Pregnancy Care Project - A two-phase study understanding the need for trans, non-binary, intersex and takatāpui inclusive pregnancy and birth care in Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Pae Tata Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022
Documentary: Hating Peter Tatchell
Brene Brown TEDx talk: The Power of Vulnerability
Episode 5: Niamh Clerkin
Australasian Birth Trauma Association
RNZ article: Birthing injuries now included in ACC cover after bill passes
NZ government announcement: Government delivers ACC change to support 28,000 parents
My Birth Story: Having a negative or traumatic birth experience means different things to different people and it affects individuals and their loved ones in hugely different ways.
Only YOU get to decide if your birth experience was negative or traumatic. Know that whatever you are feeling right now is normal following a negative birth experience, it is valid and there is support available.
Whilst exploring this site you'll find insights, advice, internal and external resources as well as real stories from Kiwis who have had negative or traumatic birth experiences.
Physiotherapy NZ: find a pelvic health physio
Scarleteen - sex ed for the real world
Emily Nagoski - author of Come As You Are
Continence NZ
Episode 6: kōrero with Niamh, Tanya and Cooper
Tanya : Endometriosis New Zealand
Cooper: The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology