Leanne Radojkovich

Advice For Coping David Farrier's Webworm features advice for coping in 2026, from trauma & bereavement counselor Ross Palethorpe. Then news on Substack and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

finding it hard to cope at the moment with all the chaos going on around you? i got a trauma & bereavement counselor to write some tips about how to stay sane. please RT if you think others may find it useful, too: www.webworm.co/coping/

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Grateful for this review of Hailman - & to have it called "a really thoughtful and memorable read"... I love that. Thank you so much @kaggsy59.bsky.social & @theemmapress.bsky.social 🌨️

Yet again, in almost any other NZ government a minister telling NZers to *eat less food* to save money would have them hounded by media and pushed out of politics.

Never forget the immensely important protective role that NZ media have played in protecting these fascists from public outrage.

61 shops announce closures in 10 days: Will liquidation numbers get worse before they improve? There are warnings the number of businesses closing could get worse before it gets better.

Shops don’t close themselves.

It’s not 61 shops, it’s people closing livelihoods, it’s staff losing their jobs, it’s creditors not being paid, it’s parents with no income facing the expense of the start of the school year and a heartless systemically unhelpful WINZ.

#nzpol

So happy my short story collection was longlisted for pub @theemmapress.bsky.social - thanks so much to the Birmingham Editorial Readers Group :) and huge congrats to all the other authors on the short and longlists 🌿

So thrilled my short stories were longlisted in this round - thanks heaps to the Birmingham Editorial Readers Group :) and big congrats to all the other authors on the short and longlists 🌿 thank you @theemmapress.bsky.social

What a cool idea - I've been pub in takahē, too 💙

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤

go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM

Thank you 🦋

"For a hot moment, I wanted to smash her. No, I wanted to be her."
@linedealer.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social

Wow - thanks heaps for sharing, Jan 🐈‍⬛ 💕

Double Image by Leanne Radojkovich I was sixteen, finished with school, and couldn’t see a way forward. Went to stay at Uncle Ray’s. He’d been clearing the guttering and had fallen off the roof. Mum and I went down to look after him…

Wrote a #shortstory abt sneaking smokes & pills, taking photos, & setting a doll on fire. Huge thanks to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving Double Image a home 🌿 tinyurl.com/mtsn5yha

Party that was implacably opposed to wasting three quarters of a billion on a bridge that might have got people moving in a new way in Auckland has now wasted three quarters of a billion that leaves us with absolutely nothing at all. NOTHING.

The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On

“This weekend, Pātaka Art+Museum in Porirua opens Not One More Acre: Remembering the 1975 Land March, marking 50 years since Dame Whina Cooper and Te Rōpū o te Matakite led a historic protest against the loss of Māori lan”

The Call That Still Echoes 50 Years On #nzpol

YouTube video by Whānau Ora THE MĀORI ROLL CALL

Tame Iti.

I'm here to read the roll. .

The Maori Roll Call.

Genius performance. Performance art.
youtu.be/PeT_SLYJkV4?...
🏳🏴🚩

The women were marvellous In 1951, after watersiders had refused overtime work in protest at a low wage offer, the government announced a state of emergency.

NCWNZ rightly calls out this govt's War on Women & in 1951 Labour MP Mabel Howard called the National govt's response to the waterfront stoppage a War on Women, too. It's endless, and so is resistance - women organised, fought back. #WarOnWomen heritageetal.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...

#NZ - The National Council of Women is calling out the Coalition Government for its #WarOnWomen.

“This Government is systematically dismantling the democratic safeguards that protect fairness, equity, and public voice in Aotearoa.

Full details here: www.ncwnz.org.nz/coalition_go...

Remember during Covid when all those “unskilled” jobs were actually the ones deemed essential. While many with “important” jobs sat around baking bread.

Many of those essential roles are the ones being impacted by pay equity shafting.

Praised then, scoffed at now. Shame on this Government.

Kate Sheppard would be rolling in her grave after this week’s events, writes Verity Johnson OPINION: I can’t work out which part of this week’s pay equality law change was the most horrifying.

This from Verity Johnson hits what I think is the most important point in this whole thing (I said it in a much more sweary way last night) - women had followed process and were seeking redress through the 'proper' channels. All that was ignored and destroyed.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...

The billionaire, the sculptor’s widow and the fake artwork The widow of acclaimed sculptor Paul Dibble has tracked a counterfeit to the home of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray, and wants to have it destroyed.

Only two The Gold of the Kōwhai study 1 were ever made and are owned by private collectors in Christchurch and New Plymouth.

So, Fran Dibble was distraught to discover one on display in the garden of billionaire toy tycoon Nick Mowbray’s sprawling Mahoenui Valley property.

Short story: Drive, by Erica Stretton 'This goddamned place': teenagers in cars.

Excellent story on ReadingRoom - so vivid I thought I was living it, rather than reading it, @ericastretton.bsky.social #https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/22/short-story-drive-by-erica-stretton/

If you want to direct your anger at Destiny Church, rather than sign multiple petitions on overseas websites, support the petition open at Parliament #nzpol

petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...

Brilliant and devastating: Are book blurbs anything more than a circle jerk? On the pros and cons of puff quotes on book covers.

Claire Mabey's excellent article about blurbage:
thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-02-...

Three Days in February — Splore Festival

There's no Splore this year, but if you've ever been, there's Serena Stevenson's 'Three Days in February'. It's less a documentary than an immersive work, with a live soundtrack performed by a group including Pitch Black, a string quartet and a gospel choir. www.splore.net/three-days-i...

World’s ugliest lawn winner says she leaves watering to Mother Nature New Zealand garden takes first prize in global competition designed to promote water conservation

www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🤎

OK fine, what submissions do I have to make FFS?! Don't worry - I got you. Here's everything you need in one place!

emilywrites.substack.com/p/ok-fine-wh...

Play by play A haka on repeat

I usually write about sports by I’m my own boss and so my boss said write a play by play of that haka you’ve been watching on loop so I did.

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