Miranda Johnson

1 week ago | medium.com | Miranda Johnson

I’ll get right to it: grief fucking sucks. I’ve been in a constant state of survival mode since mid-November of 2024 (about 6 months before I wrote this). That’s when my brother called one sunny Friday afternoon to tell me our father was sick and in the hospital. Apparently, he didn’t want me to know. He was an alcoholic. Two weeks after I found out he was in the hospital, he was dead. I hadn’t spoken to him in months. Anger and resentment clouded every thought when it came to him.

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Miranda Johnson

Dear my younger self,I know how many times you sat alone in the dark, trying to sleep, but stuck thinking about all the “good" and “meaningful” times you spent with your father. There just had to be some, right? In the end, you feel like a bad daughter, not being able to find a reason to be thankful for her father on father's day. You feel sick trying to remember anything that made him feel like a father to you. I mean, he didn't leave. He wasn't abusive.

Mar 6, 2025 | newsroom.co.nz | Miranda Johnson

Trumpian politics in the US President’s second term appear more paradoxical as well as more effective than in his first. On the one hand, Trump successfully campaigned on a platform of ‘America First’. His platform included promises to put the interests of American businesses before those of international ones and to force the issue by imposing tariffs on Chinese goods in particular.

May 22, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Miranda Johnson |Arts Highlights

From across the ditch, New Zealand can look like a place where settlers and Indigenous people have forged a successful, postcolonial modus vivendi. The image conceals more than it reveals. As in Australia, relations between Indigenous people and the state are fraught. At the November 2023 election, right-wing minority parties won electoral support by rejecting what they have characterised as special privileges to Māori. And a long-standing, bipartisan consensus on ‘biculturalism’ is breaking down.

Jan 16, 2024 | tamronhallshow.com | Miranda Johnson

Country music icon Miranda Lambert is back with the #TamFam! After first taking over the city with Usher last year, this time Tamron is hitting up another residency people can’t stop talking about— Miranda Lambert’s Velvet Rodeo. The 3-time Grammy winner is giving us an exclusive must-see look into the sold-out show and it’s truly a moment in time that we’ll never forget. First, we sit down with Miranda for a look back at her impressive career spanning more than two-decades.