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 […]