Ruby Solly

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The Friday Poem: ‘Kōauau kōiwi’ by Ruby Solly

Oct 17, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Ruby Solly

Booksabout 13 hours agoA new poem by Ruby Solly.
The pain of the policy that splits disabled kids from their parents

Oct 2, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Áine Kelly-Costello |Cait Ruth Lawrence |Helen Fletcher |Ruby Solly

"I have been living separated from Jap Sahib for seven years now. I am working as a chef in Christchurch. Jap Sahib is back in India, with his grandmother. It pains me that I have missed out on seeing him grow up for the past seven years. After I first came to NZ in 2014, Jap Sahib was turned down for multiple visas because of the discriminatory health requirements. In 2016, Immigration said that either I or my husband at the time had to go back to our country and take care of Jap Sahib there.
Have your say: ADHD treatment improvements on the horizon

Sep 26, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Eda Tang |Ruby Solly |Olivia Shivas

In September, Pharmac released two proposals which may put people with an ADHD diagnosis in a better position to access first line medications. Lisdexamfetamine (aka Vyvanse), an ADHD medication that currently costs over $100 a month, may be publicly funded in New Zealand by December to support those with ADHD and narcolepsy.
The Talk: Why you’ll need to hold your own hand when I’m sick

Sep 26, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Ruby Solly |Eda Tang |Olivia Shivas

I think fundamentally, we’ve got the idea of “coming out” wrong. It’s not ripping off a band aid, it’s not moving from one room to another. It’s something we do repeatedly, it’s a time stamp that we lap again and again. In a queer context, this is fairly well known now. I’ve come out lots of times. I came out to my Dad in Fidel’s cafe in Wellington at 18, and every time I get sat at that table my heart rate treats it like the gym.
The rare and magical quality of our relationships

Sep 24, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Olivia Shivas |Ruby Solly |Eda Tang

And yet, there’s a rare and occasionally magical quality about the delicate relationships that exist in our worlds, too. The relationship we have with our whānau, who on the one hand might be telling us ‘we don’t see you as disabled’, will also be the first ones by our side when disaster strikes. The tricky relationship with our physio, who only wants the best for our bodies, but can often trigger pains of the past, when ‘being fixed’ was the aim of the game.
‘There isn’t any acting here’: What it was like recording The Bone People audiobook

Sep 19, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Ruby Solly

Ruby Solly on reading Keri Hulme’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People for the audiobook, released this week. Initially, there is only one way to describe this work; an honour and a privilege. I say this every time I get to spend time with the words of our kaumātua, but those words become embodied when those kaumātua are people like me. The Bone People has a certain Mona Lisa-like quality to it where whoever reads it feels seen, feels that Keri has written their story.
E tauhou: A poem for Paula Harris

Jul 16, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Ruby Solly

A poem for Paula Harris, by Ruby Solly. E tauhouE tauhou,You have twisted the sky to water againand found your wings soddenand too slow to beatin the moving freeze. You were not made for here. A dropped button from the coatof somewhere better. You chased that better for everyone. You found the moment that hope shrunk so smallthat it disappeared into its own tiny black hole.
Between ‘Birdspeak’ and ‘The Artist’: Arihia Latham and Ruby Solly in conversation

May 27, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Ruby Solly

Poets Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) and Arihia Latham (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) talk about their new collections of poetry, and the many resonances between them.