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Welcome to the Salient blog! Here you'll find every piece of writing we've published this year. Browse by category, or just go for a scroll.
From Aotearoa to Palestine: Matariki Reflections
It’s Matariki, and I am with my whānau by the coast with a bowl of hot boil-up on my lap and some fry bread in my hand. We’re gathered...
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1 day ago3 min read
Healing the World: Jewish Traditions and Justice.
by Ari (they/them) Kia ora, and Shalom aleichem. I’m a PhD candidate here at Te Herenga Waka and I am of Ashkenazi (Jewish people whose...
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1 day ago7 min read
Islam on Campus (and Respawning My Faith)
The first time I was introduced to Islam was through a terrorist joke. Just a kid playing Halo on my Dad’s Xbox 360, on a tiny TV in...
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1 day ago5 min read
ENTER THE CONCLAVE: Ryan's Guide to becoming the Pope
By Ryan Cleland (he/him) So you want to be the Pope, eh? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Your journey to the Papacy is a busy one —...
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1 day ago3 min read
Whatever Happened to Berrigan House?
By Will Irvine For nearly a decade, a utopian socialist community existed right on the doorstep of Victoria University of Wellington....
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1 day ago5 min read
A Few Minutes with Andy Johnston
By Nick Heine-Sheldrake Andy Johnston didn’t mean to become a wildlife expert, but the 25-year-old now finds himself traveling from...
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4 days ago3 min read
Sex Myths and What I Wish I Knew at 18 (Now That I'm 30)
By Magenta Kaos (they/he) Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whare, Tūhoe “Sex Is Only Sex If There's Penetration” Sex education has long been lacking,...
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4 days ago3 min read
The Sex Parties of Queen Dove
By Georgia Wearing How did you get into hosting sex parties? I’ve always identified as kinky, as a teenager I scoured every corner of the...
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4 days ago6 min read
Everyone is a target: Inside Deepfake Pornography
By PHOEBE ROBERTSON Deepfake pornography has been called the future of revenge porn, but that term doesn’t quite capture it. Unlike...
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4 days ago3 min read
Getting Methy – New Zealand’s changing drug market
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Trigger Warning: Discusses drug use. Testing of New Zealand’s wastewater over the last year has revealed an...
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4 days ago3 min read
Standing Guard
words by Will Irvine I never had the makings of a traditional doorman. I’m 5’11, 88kgs, and nowhere near close to intimidating. In high...
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4 days ago5 min read
Naked and Unafraid
Words by Dorian (he/him) I’ve been to a few life drawing classes in my time as someone who sketches, though I had never thoroughly...
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4 days ago3 min read
Opinion: Can Chris Hipkins Pull it Off?
By Walter Hamer Zamalis The 2023 New Zealand general election was one in which Aotearoa saw nothing in its future, and so voted according...
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4 days ago6 min read
An Oral History of Sex
By Shaw McEwan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou) and Taipari Taua (Muriwhenua, Ngāpuhi) Sex and love have always been...
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4 days ago4 min read
FROM DISHWASHER TO TOP DOG
Stories from a life spent behind the bar By Courtney Plaize (she/her) Being a female bartender is hard. Now add management and Courtenay...
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4 days ago3 min read
A new kind of six inches
By Diamond (she/her) Popular media has been paying special attention to sex work lately. Stripping has become Hollywood's new ‘darling’...
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4 days ago6 min read
Town on a Budget
By Georgia Wearing We may have missed the prime years of clubbing when the 2000’s music wasn’t overdone, beers were $1, and the recession...
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4 days ago4 min read
A love letter to Shibari
By Faun Watson A number of years ago, I started attending Wellington kink events with my then-partner. We had the same goals as many...
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4 days ago2 min read
Too loud, too late, too alive
A Manifesto for the Troublesome Women of Courtenay Place Riona Chen (she/her) I go to the club to make genuine emotional connections and...
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4 days ago3 min read
Human-Generated Art
By Kaleb AI has its pervasive finger up everybody's prostate. You hear all through the halls of people making faustian bargains for a...
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May 263 min read
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