Janhavi Gosavi

The were cuddly and cute, but they were also being used to earn money in a dangerous environment. Janhavi Gosavi reports. On Saturday afternoons, Nixie and Oscar used to hang out by the rainbow crossing on Cuba Street. They would hop around inside a…

The Manners Mall Macca’s toilet simply isn’t enough, writes Janhavi Gosavi. My favourite meme of all time is a picture of Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf saying “go piss girl”. I wish I could, Blair, but the lack of public toilets in the Wellington CBD…

If you were raised in an Asian household, you may have encountered the ‘no dating until marriage’ rule and were left bamboozled. ‘No dating until marriage’ is an oxymoronic phrase playing on the traditional Asian belief that falling in love and…

Words by Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) CW: Transphobia To those who have never walked its hallowed halls, Law School is both ostentatious and illusive. A cool kids club to some, a pretentious prison to others. Students who have never touched a LAWS paper…

Words by Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) When in Wellington … dress as the Wellingtonians do. But what does it mean to look like a Wellingtonian? Are we contractually obligated to dress in accordance with our artsy-political-edgy-anti-capitalist stereotype?…

During the summer of 2016, Callum worked for Project Bloom. He was stationed at shopping centres, asking passers by, particularly the families of young girls, if they wanted to enter a giveaway to win a free photo shoot. At the end of every day,…

Words by Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) By the end of next week, we at Victoria University of Wellington will bid adieu to our infamous Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford. Guilford’s name has been synonymous with VUW since he started here in 2014, and the…

Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) My favourite question to ask people is “if you were a bird, what bird would you be?” No one sees it coming, but many get invested in introspectively finding an answer. “I would be a kererū, cos they’re chunky and drunk like…

500 Vic students were surveyed about their experiences on Tinder. The results are in. Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) I formulated an online survey to investigate our student body’s dating habits on Tinder. The survey consisted of multi-choice and…

Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) We all have a love-hate relationship with influencers. Whether you love to hate them, or hate to love them, influencers have reconceptualised what fame is and who has access to it. My Instagram feed used to be inundated with…

Janhavi Gosavi she/her Over the break, I binged the Toy Story movies. I didn’t follow the storyline, or pay attention to character development. I was too busy seething with jealousy. At kids. Pre-pubescent, unproductive members of society who were…

Words by Janhavi | She/Her CW: Mentions of sexual harm Like most born with a vagina, I assumed mine would do everything it was supposed to. Bleed, open wide for the male girth, and even wider for a watermelon-sized human to someday exit my body. I…