Kia ora! Welcome to Friday Night Chats! How are you? I'm in Tāmaki Makaurau today for a podcast recording. Back to Pōneke tomorrow. Let's chat! Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this already in your email! Skip to comments I am writing
Following the declaration of states of emergency for Cyclone Vaianu, Wairoa Mayor Craig Little said our little country is "becoming woke". Little, who arrived in Aotearoa on The New Zealand Company's first settler ship, the Aurora, in 1840, said Cyclone Vaianu was a "soyboy snowflake&
Welcome to Friday Night Chats! I am so happy you're here! I hope you had a lovely long weekend (if you had one) and, if you didn't, I hope your week hasn't been too taxing. Let's chat! 💡Oh and speaking of chatting:
The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.
The spicy TV series Heated Rivalry has been a global phenomenon. Based on the Game Changers book series by Rachel Reid, the first season, directed by Jacob Tierney has broken records and broken (and mended) hearts. The series stars Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander and Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov,
A new series we will have here at Emily Writes Weekly is our group chat roundtable, where we will discuss everything that matters and everything that doesn’t. And we will do this with my friends because I think they’re smarter and funnier than every man on TV. OK,
Eww what a bad week. But now it's the long weekend yay! And I am heading to Tāmaki Makaurau for the launch of Kiwi Health Heroes by Caitlin Timmer-Arends, So-Young Cho and Rebecca Waddel. It features my Eddie, and his bestie and me are going to the launch
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For two years now, my friends in Gaza and I have shared photos and videos of our children with each other. The difference is obviously stark. Here is my child doing kapa haka at an awards ceremony. There is their child filling water in a container and walking through flooded
At the beginning of the month, we launched a big campaign here at Emily Writes Weekly. The Brighter Future project is incredibly dear to me. It's kaupapa is simple. We are asking an important question of everyone in Aotearoa: What would this country look like in a decade
It's Friday Night Chats time! If you're new to Emily Writes Weekly - welcome! Friday Night Chats happens every Friday. You get a heap of recommendations for what to read, listen to, and watch. And now you get a podcast too! There's often a
Growing up I used to love a show called This Is Your Life. Journalist Mike Munro would hold a giant red book and lovingly ambush a well-known Australian. My favourite episode was about Steve Irwin. For an hour, Steve Irwin saw his impact on the world, on his community, on
The sun is shining (in some places) and it's the first day of the week - it's the perfect time to help your community! On the weekend we had the most gorgeous fundraiser. Honestly, it just filled my cup so much. It was so joyous. All
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Last month, our friend Helen Gilby was diagnosed with cancer. She recently had surgery to begin her treatment. There were complications, and Helen updated us with the following dispatch from the hospital. Helen would like to thank you all for the outpouring of support and really tangible help you'
In Louis Theroux's 2025 documentary film The Settlers, Theroux does what he does best. He lets his grotesque subjects show their monstrous views simply by holding back and letting them feel safe enough to share them. In The Settlers, the mentality of Israeli men and women who believe
Welcome to Friday Night Chats! How are you? It's been A Week. Not helped by a ridiculous beat-up by a newspaper trying to get readers off the back of my writing. So let’s go there…This time we did a podcast AS WELL. Just for our paid
A few weeks ago, the greyhound racing lobby quietly began an advertising campaign to try to save their extremely profitable industry. This included posters so out of touch that they were almost laughable. They featured AI-generated images of sad-looking people (like 'Colin', who actually looked like your typical
Early Thursday, I began receiving the same screenshot over and over. It was from influencer chef Chelsea Winter's Instagram Stories, which described her morning routine. It was so relatable that about 150 mothers sent it to me. Feel free to skip to the comments if you read this
On Friday, all over Aotearoa, workers ranging from midwives to teachers to nurses wore purple to show their support for pay equity. Today is International Women's Day. We're going to see a lot of MPs who have destroyed the chance for so many women in this