bell hooks: I was thinking about what you were saying earlier -- that I am funny. A lot of people think I am, but most people don't. [Laughs] I was telling you that when we first met. That's a pretty big stereotype about feminists, that we're not fun, that we don't have a sense of humor and that everything is so serious and politically correct. Humor is essential to working with difficult subjects: race, gender, class, sexuality. If you can't laugh at yourself and be with others in laughter, you really cannot create meaningful social change.
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The newly-opened Margaret Mahy playground attracted thousands of visitors in its first week.
Press visual journalist Iain McGregor took to the skies over Christchurch on February 4, 2016, to capture how the city and its surrounding areas looked five years after the 2011 earthquakes.
- The Press via Stuff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/77028472/christchurch-in-2016-see-how-the-rebuilding-city-looks-from-the-air
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