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The future

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jul 6, 2025
  • 1 min read

If you want me to do The Perfumed Garden in Wellington, then apologies are required. There's no ambiguity; no jokes; no suggestions of any other outcome. If I don't hear something along the lines of 'we used online porn and real situations to attempt to control you as part of our desire to hear you sing', then I leave Wellington (possibly forever). -

You all told me I was making it up; now, you need to set the record straight. Artists in Wellington, VUW faculty, and the SIS were directly involved in the stalking, pornography generation/conversion practice, and they must apologise for that. The SIS was behaving within the bounds of the law, liberally interpreted, but VUW had zero right to push me around as a non-student. Anyone that told me to be straight after 2022 owes me a personal apology, and that's what it takes for me to lift my boycott. My collaborators are people that didn't think being trans was a negative, and most of whom had previous experience working with Gareth. Gary's just a mensch: he's straight, but has seen enough trannies kill themselves to tolerate my weirdness. Who nearly killed me last week? That's the group of people that need to apologise.

 
 
 

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