Alice Soper

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Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 11d

Started my week with an epic campaign launch and ended it with a crew of new volunteers learning how getting out to talk to voters for the first time. With a little bit of merch switching and a viral parliamentary speech in between. A good week.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 12d

Last night, Women in Sport Aotearoa, alongside InsideOut and the Clare Foundation launched a new toolkit for community sports providers to support the participation of transgender and nonbinary people in sport. Filling the gap created by the deletion of the previous guidance by the Minister of Sport

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 18d

I don’t believe I have ever seen the Blues do a haka before and WOW, what a statement. They have got this.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 18d

Heart says Matatū, head says Blues 12 and under. As I wrote yesterday ⬇️

A screenshot of part of Alice’s preview write up that reads:

Can the Matatu get it done? Yes but...
...they need steel from Marcelle Parkes, Santo Taumata and their interchange.
...they need Charntay Poko to play the game of her life.
...they need Elinor-Plum King to play her Black
Fern selection performance.
...they need Grace Brooker, Laura Bayfield and Amy du Plessis to be heroes.
...they need Kaipo Olsen-Baker to carry them all on their back.
...they need the width and tempo from round one.
...they need the defensive mongrel in round five.
...they need their home crowd to play 80 minutes too.
But, but, but, the Blues.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 18d

Ahead of today’s Super Rugby Aupiki final, final word goes to our captains. Grace Brooker of Matatū and Maiakawanakaulani Roos for the Blues. If you’re in Christchurch, GET THERE! It’s gonna be the icing of on the cake of this epic season.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 25d

The Poua invited me on the field to sing the victory chant I wrote the team 🥹

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· 28d

Different context but basically what I wrote about in my column today.

A chunk of text with the following part highlighted “However it's not as if the trolling stops as soon as the tournament ends.Once a person is a visible target for online abuse, that harassment can continue for as long as they are active on social media.”

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jul 11

Watching the game back and this is one of my fav parts

I think it may be Iritana Hohaia’s mum who is holding the sign that has the intro lyrics to my chant on it.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jul 10

But Tiaki Wai is spending money on TV ads, so that’s cool.

A still of the Tiaki Wai ad currently screening on TVNZ

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jul 8

This week’s pod is up and it’s full of me loving on my team like this:

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jul 4

BACK TO BACK WINS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER AND UP OVER THE BLLLLLLUUUUUUEEEESSSSSS

Alice and Renee Holmes hug as Bailey comes forward to join them

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jul 2

Why do I love women’s rugby? Because one of the Chiefs Manawa players sent me this photo from their team file of us celebrating our team beating them.

Bailey hollers as Alice pumps her fists in the crowd for their team

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jun 27

Made my own merch for the weekend

Alice holds a cap on a seat which reads
“Bums on seats watching women’s sport”

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jun 27

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jun 8

Our team is breaking records. The growth in our numbers is off the charts but more importantly is the growth in our people. Walking a little taller after getting connected to community. The world needs more hope, it’s the most beautiful gift we can give to each other.

A graphic with read 5000 phones call and doors knocked in Wellington North with a photo of our team after one of our phone banks

A graphic that compares our first phone bank to the one last week, showing a big growth in attendance from six to over 20.

A photo of our volunteers hands in with text saying $33,000 has been raised through donations and event fundraising.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Jun 2

Always handy when you’re mates with photographers and they make you look your best. Everyone say thanks Naomi Madeiros.

A photo of Alice smiling, that her friend captured at an event over the weekend. She is wearing a brown cap, grey and black tortoiseshells aviator shaped seeing glasses and a blazer and tie.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 25

I am sorry for the rot that seeks to hold back joy. That what should be moments of pride get tarred with these ‘poo crumbles’. I’m yet to enjoy but my Mum and stepdad did the hike on the weekend and loved it. Here’s some of what they shared in our family chat.

A message that reads “Everyone is buzzing about our new walk/cycleway from
Wellington to Pito one (Petone).
We walked it today. Fabulous.”

Mum takes a photo of the bridge and my step dad who is taking a video of the bridge 🤣

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 25

My submission if it helps give inspiration for yours. You have until 2 July, follow the link below. www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

I am a cis woman who chooses to have short hair and not wear skirts or dresses.
Because of this since a young age, I have been harassed, misgendered and accused of being in the "wrong place" because of how I look. When I am out in public, my partner and I brace for hostility simply because my fashion sense doesn't align with some people's ideals of womenhood.
It's just hair, it's just a shirt and still it causes a fuss. I hate to think how much worse it is for trans and non-binary people.
have always been like this but the response to how I turn up in the world changes based on how politicised people choose to make my identity.
I know when transphobia is on the rise because cis women like me get caught in the crossfire. I have experienced an uptick in hostility since a similar Bill was introduced in the United Kingdom. I shudder to think how much worse it will get for cis women like me, my trans and non binary friends should this legislation progress further.

The feminist movement was not established to see such regressive definitions of men and women encoded into law. Feminism was about breaking gendered spaces open, to allow all people equality of access, preventing discrimination on the basis of gender. Feminism was never about drawing tighter lines around the expression of our gender.
There is a clear and understood difference between biological sex and gender. Both of which are more diverse than the narrow definitions laid out in this Bill. By attempting to define gender based on these imported idealogical lines, you are making people less safe. You are encouraging harrasment of people who want no more or less than the right to simply exist in society like everyone else.
We have already seen the limitations with the similar definition based legislation in the United Kingdom. Rather than simplifying things as the proponents suggest, these definitions fall apart when they come into

contact the complexity of reality. What about intersex people? What about the potential harm of trans men forced back into women's spaces and trans women forced back into men's? What about the accusations towards people like me who look ambiguous enough in some people's eyes? How do we answer these questions when other laws around the world have already failed to? Particularly here as this legislations is at direct odds with current legal processes regarding gender identification on birth certificates. Will this legislation mean we introduce the need to carry documentation or will we subject people to harmful testing practices such as the inspection of genitals?
All of the above is much more invasion than the current reality of me as a cis woman, having a trans woman use the toilet cubicle alongside me. Or of joining a local sports team and playing alongside anyone who identifies as a women as part of the women's grade. Trans women are not a threat to me as a cis women but this
...

Trans women are not a threat to me as a cis women but this legislation is.
There are real issues facing both men and women in society today. Harm that is further perputated by strict adherance to narrow definitions of gender.
There is so much that could be done with Parliamentary time that would go ways towards addressing these issues and instead we see time wasted on this. It is a real shame for everyone involved that people are being asked once again to plead for their humanity to be considered. Least anyone else be made slightly uncomfortable at the existence of someone not exactly like them.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 23

Watching Marlon Williams play gives me the same feeling I had when Ruby Tui lead us in Tutira Mai post World Cup win. Like I’m getting little glimpses of what our country could be.

Marlon Williams on stage at the Michael Fowler Centre

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 20

And if you read all that, here’s a picture of him and me being as he would call it, silly wee berks.

Barry is wearing a shirt from with a picture of Jennifer Coolidge overlayed with her iconic White Lotus quote “these gays, they’re trying to murder me” and behind him Alice grimaces as she welds a knife

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 15

The New Zealand Comedy Festival

Alice opens her jacket and Bailey her bag to reveal jars of best food mayonnaise

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 13

Whatever happens this weekend, this season is already legendary for the Wellington Phoenix.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 10

SUCH A MISSION. Pray for me and this bathroom.

Alice’s bathroom is tapped up ready for paint.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 9

White wasn’t right. So went with the same green as I had before on the new cupboard ends.

Alice’s kitchen with the ends of the cupboard painted white

The ends of the cupboards are now painted the same green as the rest of the kitchen walls

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 7

Today, one of my rugby mums made history as Erin Rush became the first women to be elected as the President of New Zealand Rugby. She will hold this position for two years and want to continue to hold her connection throughout it with the community she serves.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 4

One of the revelations of the dishwasher installation is just how shiny it makes everything.

A shiny mug of coffee sits on the kitchen table. In the foreground you can see some cereal for breakfast and outside the window a hydrangea bush.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· May 2

Today, I am a plasterer.

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Apr 30

Progress! Now for new taps, paint, splash back and my 30th birthday present to Bailey - a dishwasher 😍

New bench tops are installed. There is still a hole in place for a dishwasher and a tap to be installed along with splash back

This bench is also now in place, just waiting for its own splash back… that tile you can see by the outlet

Alice Soper@alicesoapbox· Apr 30

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