@lisam74
Arts producer, researcher, poet, artist, Wikipedian. I'm a white New Zealander living in Aotearoa gratefully because of Te Tiriti o Aotearoa. He Tangata Tiriti ahau He Pākehā ahau Toi Tū Te Tiriti Toi Tū Te Taiao Toi Tū Te Reo Mauri ora
Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols
Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Sepia photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Native American women looking outwards with strong expression
Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
I arranged some flowers and messaged my dad. Apart from that I recommend go back and gaze at you bubba!
Collage painting a persons face layered on top of hand silhouettes. Painted and arty. The person has short hair and glasses. Collaged words overlap the face. "The past is calling and it is saying" "Hey you gormless shits listen to the undermined"
The past is calling and
it is saying:
"Hey you gormless shits
listen to the undermined"
An ink and watercolor sketch in a notebook of an insect with googly eyes and wings and also in the sketch are words mostly not readable apart from KIKIHI it's a very sketched sketch splattered paint
Kikihi
I love my sketch book
A lyric theatre before a show from the circle. Red seats a few audience heads in front, the stage set framed in the proscenium
And - where is the doodacky?
Embroidery in multicolours against a white background with diamond shapes and horizontal border
Traditional embroidery design from the Greek island of Crete #womensart
Little poem snippet:
don’t / fear / truth / stars in the sky
love / succeed / Matike Mai
Cubicle style abstract painting in multicolours with central circular form
Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Electric prisms, 1914 vía #womensart
Rātu Writing/ Tuesday Tuhituhi snippet:
The mountain listens to the flame
guiding future generations.
Trash can be delicious, tart as mercy—
tart as thighs rubbing through denim,
hips swinging, cuffs fraying.
Prepare with fervent hope.
Exactly. Whyyyyy!!!!???
New Wikipedia tool: "Scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns and flags specific passages for editorial review." No AI.
Developed by Netha Hussain. nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-ge...
Image of an out-of-focus laptop screen showing multiple people in a virtual meeting, overlaid with the time and date for the meetup.
Reminder for Wikimedians around Aotearoa that your monthly online meetup is this weekend 💻👋
📅 Sunday 22 Feb
⏰ 10–11:30am
🔗 w.wiki/Humk
New attendees are always welcome!
Portrait of a white woman upper half in a warm light coloured coat with short brown hair smoking a cigarette looking outwards
Rita Angus (1908-1970) was a New Zealand painter credited as one of the leading figures in 20th century New Zealand art. Her self portrait, 1937 #womensart
Oystercatcher, black and white with a carrot-orange bill and a red eye, flying in front of distant godwits (?? — I don't recall).
Probably the best frame I've shot in at least a year, and I knew it the second I touched the shutter release.
South Island oystercatcher. 🪶
do you know how hard it is for me to take you seriously as a person when you say "frick" instead of "fuck"? grow up.
It's not the only way
Great article
It's the most flawless economic plan since they paid $671 million to buy zero ferries.
Join Wikimedians from across the country for Wellington WikiCon, 2–3 May 2026, the annual gathering for editors of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms organised by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
Tickets are available now along with limited travel grants: events.humanitix.com/wellington-w...
poetry prompt of the week: visualize your favorite painting/movie scene. put yourself in that painting/that scene. write about what's happening.
what is going on around you? people? animals? weather? try describing feelings as things rather than describing the actual feelings themselves.
Yay!
Grrrr
What’s it like to work on a Wikipedia assignment? Hear directly from the students themselves at our next Speaker Series on Wednesday, February 11! Learn more and register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Some folks brains will just never be healed from the ravages of car brain. Probably not a good idea to give those folks power over our cities. #CarBrain
I put a bit of ground cardamom and mānuka honey in my kawakawa tea and it is DELIGHTFUL.
I'm visiting Tāmaki Auckland. Three goals: help a business plan emerge for Wikipedia Aotearoa, write a poem with lyrics from approx 37 Prince songs, & celebrate my mates birthday at a jazz, funk, latin gig.
Yeah! I'm a tax payer and they most definitely are not my union.
