We asked our contributors what feminism meant for them.
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Feminism is so difficult to talk about that it’s become a bit of a social taboo. Is ‘feminism’ the new F-word
It’s election year, so Salient asked New Zealand political parties for their stances on important women’s issues.
Robert Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan, is coming to New Zealand to play three shows in August and September. He’s 73. His life and legend, along with that of the Beatles and the Stones, tower over modern music. Salient writer Mr Jones gets inside the man, the music and the myth. THE MAN I try my best/ To be just like [...]
Up-and-coming female rap artist from the backstreets of Newtown Kill Murray AKA Katie Meadows AKA 420 princess released her first music video ‘Smoke Blowbacks’ earlier this year and the video went viral.
Now, in a ‘typical’ Trans 101, this would be where I say that gender identity is a spectrum, with men and women on opposite ends. Actually, it’s more complicated than that: gender identity is a huge complicated three-dimensional thing.
I have just spent three wonderful months studying fiction and poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop summer graduate program in ‘The City of Iowa City, Iowa’. It has been a fantastic experience, but it has also been a major shock to the system that has forced me to re-evaluate what it means to me to be a feminist
I would encourage non-Māori women to support Māori women, and stand by their side, but never lead them in their own discussions – discussions, Annette and Maryan, which have been going on far longer than your lifetimes, and will continue hereafter.



