Who Are We?

This year we are trying out a new format for the DPSN blog – with monthly video blogs! For our first video we chat with Philip Patston about his new kickstarter! Check it out here    

Chelle Hope: Standing out

Chelle Hope is a writer who is, regrettably, finding less time for being idle these days as the demand for attention from her inner voice grows louder and more urgent.  As a lesbian with disabilities, she is interested in how identity informs how we see ourselves and others.  In this week’s guest blog, she talks…

The contradiction of addiction

I’ve spent the past year working as a Psychologist in a community-based alcohol and drug service.  While this does not make me by any means an expert on addiction, it does mean that when a Huff Post Politics article like this one start’s doing the rounds on Facebook, I do have one or two opinions…

Pride Parley

This year I decided I would change up my blogging and start a monthly vlog – interviewing people over video. My first vlog was going to be focussing on the Auckland Pride Festival, which is just wrapping up, after a month of performances, gallery shows, markets and, of course, the Pride Parade. The festival had…