I watched the Netflix film ‘Crip Camp’ the other night. What I thought would be a pretty little film about some ‘cripple’s frolicking in lakes while able-bod...

I received a blog-comment! I don’t get many comments, so as you can see, when I do, I get a little excited. Hope you don’t mind me re-posting your comment Ga...

I’m not a half glass full girl, I’m also not a half glass empty… I’m a ‘what’s in the glass’ kinda girl, and that’s because I’m different. Differences are of...

Towards the end of the year, I started experiencing pain in my hip related to a fall in the shower. After a few weeks in hospital and word that I was ‘too ha...

I was talking to some folks around a dinner table about some crunchy, hairy topics, mainly what our thoughts were regarding assisted suicide – you’d think I w...

I don’t have a mental health condition, yet I’ve been in hospital for actions I’ve inflicted upon myself. I have no idea what drives me to make many of the d...

It’s a question that was posed to me by Green MP Chloe Swarbrick while I was rattling around Parliament talking with various Ministers from all Parties that ...

It’s been a crazy few months, putting my face in the spotlight to highlight concerns I have regarding assisted suicide in New Zealand. Four years ago, I was ...

It’s been a crazy few weeks (that sentence seems to becoming all too familiar with me!). I’ve been desperately trying to encourage people to think of some of...

Jacinda, I’m so proud of the way you have handled the tragedy that affected my city of Christchurch. The day before the terrorist shooting I had spoken to a ...

A few weeks ago, while I was with my father who is still in hospital after sustaining a catastrophic stroke, I got a phone call. I was asked if I could parti...

For three years, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ‘quality of life’ debate. After I became more disabled from medical misadventure due to botched neck surg...

Some parts of the world seem to be having a problem with increasing suicide rates. It seems to be occurring in mostly industrialised developed nations. North...

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is an incredible scheme, started in New Zealand in 1972. All taxpayers pay a levy which supports the scheme in th...

I remember attending a dinner fundraiser for a charity in New Zealand that raises funds for ‘paralysis cure’. I had been their designer and had fully support...

There is a piece missing from the pie that has been put together to rehabilitate someone with a serious injury. After an injury, we receive treatment to make...

Flying back from Milan to New Zealand, I had a thought; I wanted to die. It was the first time I’d felt this way for years, but lack of sleep, eating, drinki...

Freedom or Fairness. Noam Chomsky once asked the question, do we want fairness from a society built from the ashes of our world wars that heroed in welfare r...

It’s the day after my flight back from Italy to New Zealand attending the Milan Fashion Week as a disabled catwalk model. It was one of the most interesting,...

A bill regarding assisted suicide is currently going through parliament in New Zealand. It has passed its first reading and has gone to select committee. Pol...