Amanda vs. Victoria University of Wellington

I graduated in 2015, and haven't taken a course since. They haven't funded my career, yet they have taken credit for my work, and now want to swoop in and steal my research. My reo is alright because I took a year-long full time course at Te Wānanga O Aotearoa. The real reason that they're attempting to win me back is because a guitarist friend, who had studied with me, indecently assaulted me in 2019. I complained, and people took sides. He had a track record, so a bunch of women and men also called him out. Didn't go to court, as they basically said I was asking for it by coming out as transgender to him. Didn't want to sit through that. - It was a bit of a scandal in early 2020, but what happened next was that a musician and journalist called Nick Tipping broke the silence on Jack Body sexually assaulting some of his male students. VUW responded by banning students and teachers from dating. They had to compensate several of these men. It must have cost a small fortune. Jack was the great composer after Douglas Lilburn. Because of the proximity of the scandals, they blamed me for emboldening queer musicians to speak out. Despite this, I'm still a genius musician that was trained by the best dramatist since Wagner. - Between the lines of all this was my relationship with my guitar teacher, Jane. We were always very close, then she was tragically crippled in an accident. We had a fight, but I still think fondly of her. Anyway, when VUW told the music department that it would have to slim down or else be removed entirely, as several arts programmes were, they decided that they'd disestablish the guitar chair and fire her for being in a wheelchair and unable to play. The students still sounded good. Laura, Oliver and Hamish mostly studied with Jane after she'd had her accident, and they sound as good as me or Michael or Jamie. Morally, I think their decisions have been reprehensible, as their motivation for cutting music, theatre and language programmes was to protect their property holdings, then they still had to sell off some of those to pay the bills now that their international student numbers aren't as high as they were before Covid. AMPP wants fees-free tertiary education. The wānanga provided that. VUW might give me a fellowship or a scholarship, but others would be paying for it. Working in the public sector appeals to me far more than academia. - Why is this bad? Simple, the university has persistently harassed me since 2019.

Everywhere I turned, the uni was there, attempting to manipulate me. I make about $20,000 NZD a year, plus I have an inheritance that supplements the income by about $15,000-$20,000 a year. The university has an annual operating budget of around $150 million NZD. In the social media world, we call that punching down.