Kia ora Twitter friends. I'm barely ever on Twitter any more so won't see DMs or tweets I'm tagged in. You can email me at work (marianne at theworkshop dot org dot nz) for any work related stuff. Cheers.

🚨We're hiring! Read more about our open search for a new Executive Director, launching today

Feels a bit ironic to reappear on a platform I've abandoned for presumably obvious reasons to share the news that I'll be speaking at @SciComNZ conference next week about communicating through the noise of false information. But still, I am VERY excited about this talk.

Making my quarterly visit to Twitter to advertise new roles at The Workshop. Recruiting: Training Coordinator and Content Creator https://t.co/ZdXWCoGSMm https://t.co/8KbZF3nmbx Please apply if you have some, but not all of the experience we're looking for.

Great job for comms experts who care about strengthening human rights & democracy in the digital age: Communications Manager for Digital Action! Full time, either remote or working in one of our hubs in Dublin, London or Beirut.

We're hiring again! If you have solid quant research skills & experience + understanding & ability to undertake qual research + are interested in cultural mindsets, narratives and frames this might be you. Wellington based. Full time, salary range $70-75k https://t.co/JAi6hiLTnD

The Workshop is recruiting. We're looking for someone collaborative & curious with a range of research skills, a love of problem solving, and a background relevant to shared mindset & narrative work. Wellington-based, 30-40hr/wk salary range $95-110,000 https://t.co/TNR0TgGr7d

"There is still COVID in NZ & there are people it will make very sick/who may die. They need to be able to do at least some things and not just be locked away at home"

This unfortunately clashes with the toddler's evening schedule but I highly recommend this to anyone in Wellington interested in experiences of health workers in the pandemic (which is hopefully all of us, right?)

Abuse of women in politics & other public roles is on the rise. Māori, disabled and queer people in public roles have experienced this forever. It's a concerted effort to push some people out of public roles, and demands collective & system-level response. https://t.co/ehqkCnCXHi

Kia ora Twitter - I'm looking for Māori-owned food businesses who sell online. I know Kono (YBR for seafood, Kono & Tohu wines, Tutū cider), Hapī kai, Biofarm yoghurts, Wenua honey. Who else? Or is there someone already putting together Māori-owned food products gift baskets?

I’m going through responses to this and blocking anyone making racist comments. And the very fact that my tweet attracted those responses suggests, as others have pointed out, that I should have thought twice before commenting as a white woman.

I’m going through responses to this and blocking anyone making racist comments. And the very fact that my tweet attracted those responses suggests, as others have pointed out, that I should have thought twice before commenting as a white woman.

@zenpeacekeeper People seemed to think it was funny, but really very ableist, uncool and horrible to watch, and if it was scripted, as suggested, it was extremely and brutally cynical. Either way the Oscars are just one huge, self congratulatory and boring ego fest.

Like lots of people (way way too many of us) I grew up in a deeply fat-phobic culture and, friends, we have some serious work to do to de-programme ourselves. But it is so worth it. Fat liberation - like all true liberation movements - is deeply good for us all.

I also recommend @yrfatfriend book and podcast https://t.co/xS8mC3fTN3

And if you are reading this and wondering what I’m talking about, you can start with Cat’s podcast.

I’m thinking about how anti-fat discrimination is much more than fat-hating trolls in mentions of people mourning & celebrating an amazing friend. It’s everywhere and lots of us are complicit & what I understand about that is thanks to people like @FOMNZ and I’m grateful & sad.

Thanks so much for the excellent spirit-lifting memes and videos last night. Today we made it to nap time without me crying so things are going well.