LILAC Library

03/08/2026

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Open all this week at the National Library. Check out this display of Homosexual Law Reform history.

25/07/2025

There's a return season of "The Magic of Her Body" at Katherine Mansfield House from 13th to 16th August. It's a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories

Join performance artist Vixen Temple and historian Kerryn Po***ck of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga on a journey through Mansfield’s sensual diary entries and sapphic-coded short stories, moving through the rooms in the home of her birth. Returning after a sold-out season during the 2025 Well...

15/05/2025

from the Ockham NZ Book Awards last night

It is the biggest night in New Zealand literature -- the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. We will be crossing live to the winner of the General Non-fiction category.

06/04/2025

we take the LILAC mobile library to Kapiti Coasters potluck dinners and display in a convenient spot - on a table or a bed perhaps. But last night all the occasional tables were loaded with pot plants so some ingenuity was needed ...

22/02/2025

LILAC's popular discussion group is meeting again this Friday 28th February at the library, from 5.30-7.30pm. All members are welcome.

Our topic this month is Intersectional Feminism - what is it - what are its origins and its aims, and how has understanding of it changed over time?

Below is a list of sources (available as free PDF files via a Google search) that may be of interest to understand how the concept developed and has changed over time. You don't have to have read them all to participate in the conversation! Links to the PDFs are in the comments below.

1. The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
2. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Kimberle Crenshaw (1991)
3. Intersectionality and Feminist Politics. Nira Yuval-Davis (2006)
4. Affirming Fissures: Conceptualizing Intersectional ‘Ethnic’ Feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rachel Simon-Kumar (2023)

If you have any questions about the group, message this page, or email [email protected] with 'discussion group' as subject.

15/02/2025

That’s What I Am draws on oral history interviews conducted in the late 1990s with sixteen New Zealand le****ns over the age of 50. It tells the women’s stories through the decades, capturing memories of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, falling in love and establishing relationships.
In the usual book shops and coming soon to LILAC

29/01/2025

Jill magazine is a new print magazine from Canada, with content from Canada, USA, UK, Australia - coming out, the pregnant tomboy, women's sport, health, d**e fashion, fashion, pets, puzzles, cooking and more. First issue is arriving at LILAC this week

13/01/2025

LILAC is opening for 2025 on Thursday this week - 11am-2pm

05/12/2024

the lights are on again