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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.
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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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,...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 46 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 45 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 46 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 44 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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’...
Salient Mag
Jul 46 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 44 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 42 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...
Salient Mag
Jul 43 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...
Salient Mag
May 263 min read
Attack of the Droids
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) If you’re a Computer Science major, you can stop wasting your money on tuition fees – vibe coding will take it...
Salient Mag
May 263 min read
AI and Assessment: What The Hell Is Going On
Written by Ethan Rogacion (He/Him) | VUWSA Academic VP When Dan - of Salient News Editor fame - interviewed me a few weeks ago about...
Salient Mag
May 262 min read
Opinion: It’s Good that Writing Takes Time
By Te Urukeiha Tuhua AI is a new technology that we don’t fully understand yet, and it has the capacity to be used for good. But we...
Salient Mag
May 263 min read
How can te ao Māori be uplifted as we enter the Intelligent Age?
By Noam Mānuka Lazarus It is no doubt that technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing are developing faster than...
Salient Mag
May 266 min read
Opinion: How AI Might Kill Us All
By Jesse Richardson It’s surprising how quickly you can get used to the idea of the world ending. Four years ago, I barely knew anything...
Salient Mag
May 2611 min read
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