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Hurt feelings
Look, this is how y'all came off to me: 'oh, poor Amanda! her second puberty sucks because she doesn't know enough about how to be a...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 10, 20241 min read
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To Tory, Nadine and Chloe
You can't persuade me to come to Question Time unless I get an apology. Weeded Out dies TODAY. Tory admits that she was transphobic...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 10, 20241 min read
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To the fairweather 'friends'
No pops evenings of any kind. No performances. Again, I'm trying to (finally) get taken seriously as an opera composer. Here's the basic...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Nostalgia for the past
That's the meat of the bullshit that VUW has tried to ladle onto my plate. Presuming their bullshit is for real and they expect, nay,...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Marama
Another point I'd make is that there's been a consistent phrasing that suggests that the last 5 years of being trans in the streets...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Stop being rude to me, Nadine.
- I stand by my statement. It wasn't her electorate office, and I didn't go and talk to her. I didn't take any photos. I took notes. So,...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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internal politics
Probably my least favourite thing about being an activist is getting sucked into the internal politics of either TPM or the Greens. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 9, 20240 min read
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The negotiation has closed
Instant and complete cessation occurs at this point, VUW and other 'stakeholders' in Weeded Out. Your claims of authorship were rubbished....
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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To Wellington
No 'so far' - there is no legal way to acquire the Weeded Out script without paying me, and I will stipulate in the licence agreement...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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Cannabis: it calms me down
Weed calms me down, but the anger that I feel regarding Tory's bullshit is extremely real. Like, I haven't mentioned this, but given the...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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The 2022 hui
Ok, Lauren, here's the list of references to me that happened during the 2022 hui. First up, the very idea of Chloe being there at all...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Riff-raff
Tory, that statement is going to get you in a lot of trouble unless you apologise. Here's my unpacking of a potential court hearing:...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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'back to your old self'
No, I'm still Amanda. I'm still wearing women's clothes. I'm still complaining about the unfairness of being discriminated against for...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Do the EP songs with Umar and any other staff members or PhD students that you don't hate?
Absolutely not. VUW must cease and desist from asking to use my intellectual property. I cannot be plainer. I'm enrolled elsewhere, so...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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So, I won the war
Huge victory. After those smarmy billboards telling me to eat my words, I'm very close to reversing it and having them eat their words...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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Opera vs. musicals
Well, opera with a capital O has all these strange ties to mysticism and alchemy, which Alan Moore references in Promethea. Monteverdi,...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 7, 20241 min read
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Scapegoating me
That's ultimately what I think the Wellington Greens did. All my so-called friends that are involved with the party basically never liked...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 7, 20243 min read
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Two camps
I wasn't really intending to suggest that about the Green Party. I was intending to suggest that their environmental and economic...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 7, 20241 min read
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People watching
Well, since people recognised that Weeded Out was built from real conversations, it's all been slightly depressing, with people hinting...
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Amanda Riddell
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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