Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her) toitū te tiriti & free Palestinehttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lzxj5vophk241887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in! raukawa moana looking almost cosy from archives nz: https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE8400947829 Sep 2025 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxj5vophk24https://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lzrmtev4ks2kShame on you Winston Peters and all other govt MPs !! Spineless and despicable #FreePalestine #nzpol26 Sep 2025 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrmtev4ks2khttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lpj6vk35gk25Taiaroa Head lighthouse, oldest working lighthouse in Te Waipounamu & second oldest in the country (built 1864) apparently built from stone quarried on site https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/883319 May 2025 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpj6vk35gk25https://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3logbgxsb3c2othe stunning Ricky Ley is soft releasing old demos for Te Marama Puoro, here's my fav so far so tropical/shades ✨️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJH6FgzJR4x/05 May 2025 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3logbgxsb3c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3loab3sizys2kProud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin03 May 2025 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3loab3sizys2khttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lnh3rma5w22lThe Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama @eminism.org is another text I'm glad to have read: "sex and gender are both socially constructed; furthermore, the distinction between sex and gender is artificially drawn as a matter of convenience" (Winston's "biological reality" is just rubbish)23 Apr 2025 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnh3rma5w22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lngvxj4tkc2yAlways in awe of Will Hansen's work but especially loved this piece -- Trans communities were the 'backbone' of gay lib in aotearoa. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-03-2022/a-trans-history-of-gay-liberation-in-new-zealand23 Apr 2025 00:14 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lngvxj4tkc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3ln7jlvpkvk2pBrewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi20 Apr 2025 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln7jlvpkvk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lm6kp2tc6k2cCrayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954 📷 K V Bigwood From archives nz: https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2508807806 Apr 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm6kp2tc6k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3llmmsizpuc27Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912 📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035) https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/ivan-and-the-lighthouse30 Mar 2025 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llmmsizpuc27https://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lktpkglf7c23This beautiful album turns 9 today 🌻 https://malesmalesmales.bandcamp.com/album/none-the-wiser20 Mar 2025 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lktpkglf7c23https://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lkcpie65nc27& brothers island lighthouse was the last manned in aotearoa - till 1990 watercolour by j frost, 1877 https://natlib.govt.nz/records/2307681914 Mar 2025 03:52 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkcpie65nc27https://bsky.app/profile/tessmaxwell.bsky.social/post/3lkch6f56ps27Pencarrow Lighthouse - aotearoa's first permanent lighthouse (1858) & also the only ever to have had a woman as keeper This Pic from 1981 📷: unknown Archives NZ https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2523209514 Mar 2025 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:ppo6fcsfavyu5so7d6e3c3p3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkch6f56ps27