Naked girls. Reading. In Wellington.

In advance of Naked Girls Read­ing; the moth­er­hood edi­tion this Sat­urday at the Fringe Bar, I put a few ques­tions to its pro­du­cer, Hugo Grrrl. Okay, first off. Naked girls read­ing – what in the heck is this? And who are you? Naked Girls Read­ing is exactly what it sounds like – it’s com­pletely naked […]

Save Kate – from who?

Walk­ing my daugh­ter to school on Tues­day morn­ing, I was handed a fly­er on Lamb­ton Quay – “Keep Kate!”. As kind of a fan of the Kate Shep­pard traffic lights, I took the fly­er – and saw that they “were under threat of remov­al” with a link to a peti­tion. I’d sign that! But turn­ing […]

WYFC first birthday party, Easter Sunday

There’s a group of truly awe­some people in Wel­ling­ton who do great things, and they’re hav­ing a party. Does­n’t that sound like the sort of thing you should attend? Yes! Come to the WYFC’s first birth­day, and help us cel­eb­rate our first year and bring in our second. In the last year we’ve helped raise […]

Cos we ain’t not no hollaback girls

You know what sucks? Get­ting yelled at on the street (unless it’s someone yelling “Hey Wel­ling­tonista, you’re awe­some, come and have some free drinks in my bar if you like” in a non-threat­en­ing way. Please do that). So Hol­laback! wants to do some­thing about it. We’ve got your back!  Hol­laback! is an inter­na­tion­al move­ment to end […]

Two marches you might want to join

Wel­ling­to­ni­ans have two great oppor­tun­it­ies in the next couple of weeks to join import­ant causes and demon­strate that you are decent human beings. On Thursday June 9,  a march will be held through Wel­ling­ton city to help stop homo­pho­bia and trans­pho­bia on our streets. Then on Sat­urday June 25, a Slut­walk is hap­pen­ing. Queer the […]

Web devs welcome in Wellington at WDCNZ

WDCNZ is tech talks for web developers hap­pen­ing on July 14. You can tell it’s a prop­er tech talk, because there is only one female speak­er in the lineup, and so far there are no females attend­ing accord­ing to Lanyrd, except for the organ­iser. Sigh. Apart from the lack of female rep­res­ent­a­tion, it looks like […]