View of Our Street | Karangahape Road Queer Space
This blog is taken from the zine 'VIEW OF OUR STREET' a companion zine to the exhibition A View of OUR STREET 16 June 2023 - 9 September...
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The Rise (and Rise) of Zines
Auckland Zinefest is just around the corner! To celebrate, we’re looking at the rise of zine publishing and the role it plays in...
Keep Your Laws Off My Body: Roe v Wade - What It Means for Women in the US and Aotearoa
Image: Badges from the Charlotte Museum Collection Image: Broadsheet Magazine June 1977 Front Cover, from the University of Auckland...
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Starr Ratapu
- Jul 8, 2022
- 4 min
Keep Your Laws Off My Body: Roe v Wade - What It Means for Women in the US and Aotearoa
Image: Badges from the Charlotte Museum Collection Image: Broadsheet Magazine June 1977 Front Cover, from the University of Auckland...
Elizabeth Simpson
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: A Brief Look at the History of Female Companionship
Female companionship is something that has always existed but has shifted slightly depending on changing societal attitudes. These...
Annaida Varghese
- Nov 11, 2021
- 7 min
Pray the Gay Away
Last night I watched the movie, "the miseducation of Cameron Post." The movie's plot was about a teenager forced to go to conversion...
Starr Ratapu
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
The Topp Twins: Country Music Stars, Radical Lesbian Feminists
Dame Lynda and Dame Julie (Jools) Topp, AKA the Topp Twins, have had incredibly varied and successful careers spanning four decades....
Annaida Varghese
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
Home and Identity
Homewares: A decanter and a figure of dolls from the Charlotte Museum. The collection and exhibitions at Charlotte Museum have a wide...
Elizabeth Simpson
- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
Happy International Lesbian Day
International Lesbian Day is a day for celebration in the lesbian community, but what exactly is International Lesbian Day? And what is...
Elizabeth Simpson
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Home is where the Lezzo tin is.
Walking around the Charlotte Museum I found myself intrigued by a tin in one of the glass cabinets with the word Lezzo placed across it...
Starr Ratapu
- Oct 4, 2021
- 5 min
Can Music Festivals be a Safe Space for Women?
A symbol of summer, music festivals bring up memories of grassy picnics, hazy dancing, a cacophony of acoustic bass, vocals, and drums...
Starr Ratapu
- Sep 27, 2021
- 4 min
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To
“Reading between the lines is a life-long skill acquired by lesbians.” – Doreen Agassiz-Suddens All over the world and across every...
Annaida Varghese
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
The Story of the Labrys
Lockdown has currently put a hold on all our archiving work at the Charlotte Museum until we go back down to Level 2 or Level 1. But...
Annaida Varghese
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Where To Get an Abortion
The cover page of Broadsheet Magazine Jan 1978, issue no. 56. While doing some archiving work for the Charlotte Museum, our team was...
Starr Ratapu
- Aug 24, 2021
- 4 min
"I'm a feminist, but..."
"I'm a feminist, but..." A familiar phrase to many who tune into Deborah Francis-White's award-winning podcast, The Guilty Feminist....
Miriam Saphira
- Jun 29, 2018
- 2 min
The Importance Of Hands
The other day I noticed some very well manicured hands with short nails, I realised my gaydar had been slipping. She smiled in an...
Miriam Saphira
- Jan 27, 2018
- 2 min
Lesbian Community
The lesbian community is part of the bigger LGBTI community. In the past the LGBTI community has come together in times of strife, such...
Dr. Alison J. Laurie
- Dec 21, 2015
- 5 min
Vanishing Lesbians? Dr Alison J Laurie considers the history and significance of lesbian spaces
Are lesbians vanishing? Or has the way we understand visibility changed? World wide, it seems that there are very few lesbian bars, clubs...
Miriam Saphira
- Nov 2, 2015
- 2 min
“Am I changing into something of a monster or am I just claiming back my rights?”
Could violence be liberating? Not a commonly posed question concerning women’s relationship to the serious issue of domestic and related...
Miriam Saphira
- Aug 23, 2015
- 3 min
Why not a lesbian museum? Miriam Saphira reflects
In 2001 a small archives group was set up in Auckland to try to encourage people to write their stories and send them to LAGANZ (Lesbian...
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- Jun 26, 2015
- 4 min
Jumping on board the flag wagon: union jacks and rainbow stripes
Flags are an excellent way of identifying things from a distance – Raleigh Choppers parked at the end of a suburban street – for example....
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- May 25, 2015
- 5 min
For lesbian lips only.
The Charlotte Museum Trust contains within its archives a selection of lesbian feminist newsletters and magazines from the 1980s. Run by...
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- May 12, 2015
- 3 min
Colour glaze and venereal disease: food for thought
Recently I had the pleasure of playing tourist in the fine city of Auckland, casting aside my commuters’ hat in favour of walk socks and...
View of Our Street | Karangahape Road Queer Space
This blog is taken from the zine 'VIEW OF OUR STREET' a companion zine to the exhibition A View of OUR STREET 16 June 2023 - 9 September...
The Rise (and Rise) of Zines
Auckland Zinefest is just around the corner! To celebrate, we’re looking at the rise of zine publishing and the role it plays in...
Keep Your Laws Off My Body: Roe v Wade - What It Means for Women in the US and Aotearoa
Image: Badges from the Charlotte Museum Collection Image: Broadsheet Magazine June 1977 Front Cover, from the University of Auckland...
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