Yeah, I know. This is f**king awful.

Emily Writes

08 Nov 2026 — 4 min read

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So, what is there to say? I was going to write to you tomorrow but here I am reaching out to you today because I figure you’re feeling the way I’m feeling.

I am so fucking sad.

I am so fucking angry.

And I don’t want to do another post that’s all - ‘hey it’s ok we had some good wins and it’s not over yet and special votes and either way we gotta organise and also the government can’t save us! We have to save us!’.

Because fuck I am so angry.

And damn, people hate it when women are angry don’t they? So unladylike. So undignified.

I am so tired of being told by rich old men that wouldn’t piss on me if I was on fire that I shouldn’t be angry.

I want to scream at them Hulk-style - ‘You do not even know how angry I can be! You think this is angry?! I cannot even print the things I want to say right now because I might get arrested.’

Sure we are going to have to lean into community and get back into organising. We are going to have to work harder than ever to help each other.

But fuck me you’re allowed to be angry that a bunch of ugly mean dead shits elected a bunch of racist misogynist property developer pricks.

You’re allowed to be angry your neighbours voted for a man who doesn’t think women should have contraception!

You’re allowed to be angry that we have a guy in parliament who just the other day made disgustingly vulgar and violent misogynist comments about his fucking colleague! That guy is going to be in parliament now!!! That guy has a job when so many of us can’t even get work! What the fuck!!! He doesn’t even need a job! He is just inflicting his bullshit on us because this fucking country is obsessed with putting crusty old racist fucks into parliament instead of retirement!

You’re allowed to be angry that Winston Peters not only is still alive but is still in parliament when he’s fucking senile!!! HE IS FUCKING SENILE!

You can be angry! I mean how can you not be angry?

There’s going to be even more tone policing in the coming days and we are going to be told to ‘come together’ and just ‘stay civil’.

But you know, ummm fuck that? When have we ever achieved anything by just having a big sigh and hoping tomorrow will be different?

You feel rage because you care! You care about your community. You care about the people who have been fucked by this government for three years and now face being fucked for another three years in even worse ways!

What other reaction could you have to such an insult to your values and humanity as this fucking election result?

You’re allowed to feel helpless. You are allowed to mourn.

How could you not? Truly, how could you not?

Yeah the specials might change everything. Maybe TOP will form a left bloc. If you need to feel hopeful, if that’s a survival strategy right now I get that. I really do. And I send you my love.

But if you don’t feel hopeful. If you’re devastated. If you want to scream. I get that.

We all know someone who has seen their life destroyed by this cruel government - we have watched the way they have tried so hard to stay afloat. The terror you feel for them? Warranted! So why wouldn’t you feel despair?

So many of you are here with me because this government has hurt you and your family like it’s hurt my family. It’s hurt the people you love like it’s hurt the people I love. You’re allowed to be distraught right now.

I’m certainly not going to tell you to organise. I mean don’t get me wrong I’m going to say that at some point…

But right now? I am just going to say again that you are allowed to feel what you’re feeling. And you’re allowed to want to scream “I did fucking organise! I organised every day for three fucking years!”.

So - infuriated, hopeless, isolated, disgusted, repulsed and furious - you can hold those feelings here. I’m not going to tell you that your anger has to be constructive. I’m not going to tell you to organise today.

I feel your fury with you. I hate this too.

Sometimes there just aren’t any nice words. At a time like this I don’t want nice words.

Arohanui Emily x