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Best of the week 26 May – 2 June

This week fea­tures con­tri­bu­tions from Alan, Nadia, Emma and Joanna Best value lunches for those days you’re work­ing in town and have for­got­ten that you’re sup­posed to be mak­ing your lunch or eat­ing leftovers… I’m kinda hes­it­ant to men­tion it (as I don’t want them to run out before I get there) but the $9 […]

Best of the week: May 11–18 2024

A new weekly fea­ture! Here’s what was good! Hope­fully future edi­tions will include bests from oth­er Wel­ling­tonista mem­bers too. And don’t for­get, if you want to con­trib­ute to the site, please email us! Best delivered food of the week The grilled lem­on­grass chick­en salad from Rock Yard (pic­tured here with slow cooked pork in roti […]

We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia

If you’re on the Twit­ters, you would have seen yet anoth­er digust­ing piece of bigotry and bull­shit churned out by Rose­mary McLeod about how trans­gender people should­n’t be par­ents. The @dompost rebut­tal? “The column is her opin­ion.”. Yes, and they’re the ones who paid for her to have that opin­ion pub­lished. Luck­ily, the Queer Avengers […]

Hands around the Basin – a protest

A guest post from Alex Braae The Basin Reserve is for many Wel­ling­to­ni­ans a spe­cial place, and for many dif­fer­ent reas­ons. The Basin is a place where memor­ies are cre­ated, and I know from exper­i­ence what an amaz­ing spot it is for kids to play. It’s part of our her­it­age, and part of the life […]

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 […]