Truly Friday performed their solo debut for a sold-out show at The Pow Wow Room on 10 August, with a run time of around 90 minutes.
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One of my favourite parts of the mid-year break was going with my Mum to see the biographical film Whina, co-directed by Paula Whetu Jones and James Napier Robertson.
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Last month I sat down with Spacey Jane’s frontman Caleb Harper to talk about the band’s new album Here Comes Everybody; a title that reflects the band’s outward turn to their audience.
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Every winter, I look forward to curling up in my cold Wellington bedroom, shutting my brain off, and watching the latest episode of Love Island.
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Petone born and raised Justine Taito-Matamua is full Samoan and her whakapapa is to the villages of Salelologa, Faleu Manono, Lotofaga and Vavau. Justine is also a full hustler.
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Being in my third year of Film studies, I’ve developed a greater appreciation for Pasifika representation on screen. These films and TV shows reflect my experiences growing up Samoan in NZ. Contains spoilers!
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is THE Actor, THE Businessman, and seemingly, everybody’s Uncle. Take this quiz below to discover which Anoa’i member of the Dynasty family you are.
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I’m Horoymana Fuimaono (aka bobo, aka bobunda, aka Wing of the Decade, aka 50th game premier player). I play in the Premier Team for the Victoria University Hunters Rugby League Team (the cooler version of the OBU team).
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Which little miss are you?
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This playlist is brought to you by Wan Solwara with carefully selected songs as voted by you!
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I am completing my Masters degree in which I am required to complete a week of industry work. Whilst in this placement I was posed with the question of “who am I bringing into the room?”
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As the Programme Manager of Visa Wellington On a Plate, I’m often asked by friends and family for my picks of the festival. I get it, there’s a lot going on, but we do that for a reason.
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When I was in high school, my mum gave me a print of a 60s-style comic square. Black and white, it showed a girl with long hair carrying books.
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Salient asked you to help resuscitate the dying art of love letters by sending in your lovesick confessions
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Hyperpop is inherently queer music (imo). The genre features a lot of LGBTQIA+ individuals, including a lot of trans artists, and is extremely diverse in general.
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Hello, my name is Lauren. A year ago, I wrote my coming-out article ‘Feminism or Lesbianism?’. It has been a whirlwind of a year, littered with lesbian love, a few tattoos, increasingly short haircuts, and… major heartbreak.
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My transness has a correlation with compliancy. I have spent years running my hands over the clay of my queerness to thin it, diminish it, and round it into symmetry.
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As tumblr-user horrorlesbians so eloquently put it “can the next big trending thing have lesbians in it, I can only care about so many fictional men.”
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As a first-year student who has recently moved to Wellington, I've been putting off getting my hair cut.
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I remember the girls and boys playing ‘kiss, kiss, yuck, yuck’ at school. I’m sure some of you remember it too.
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