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Good clothes sizes 16 - 34, made ethically in Wellington, and other fat liberation activities. houseofboom.co.nz

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𓆉 A Study of Resistance 𓆉 @colourmefiji.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🥹🫶🏽✊🏾🙌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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“My body feels fucking great during sex”: Fat, Wāhine, Māori and sex(uality) – a Kōrero of sovereignty, desirability, deservedness, and pleasure
As Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori have rich expressions of sex(uality); we see this in our whakapapa, our ancestry, and the pūrākau of Hinenuitepō, one of the most powerful Māori...
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Has it been a year since Camp already?
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Feeling super snuggly in my new @wellingtonpride.bsky.social hoodie with cat print done by Shay Loves Orange. I got a Gildan hoodie in a 5XL & I’m a size 4 Boom or regular 28 (Obvious disclaimers etc) Yes this is basically all I post about these days #sorrynotsorry wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
Fat babe, grey hoodie, rainbow cat print
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My last Covid vaccination was blind because it was part of needle size research but today I had to ask the person at Johnsonville Life Pharmacy to switch to the larger needle Sigh
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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
There’s no way the WPF committee'd be able to create 70+ events we’ve had at past festivals by ourselves. Maybe you’re thinking about an event you’d like to see at WPF 2026? But you don't know how to start? We've put together a beginner's guide to events! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/how-to
Create your own Pride events in five easy-is steps

1. Come up with a great idea
2. Choose a venue and a time
3. Tell people about the event
4. Sell tickets - or is it free? 
5. Run the event on the day
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
What’s cooler than a fat cat? A queer fat cat that raises money for @wellingtonpride.bsky.social I wear a size 28, and this is a 5XL. It was super important to me that we offer more than just black in the larger sizes. Shirts are $50 - half goes to artis, half to WPF wellingtonpride.digitees.co.nz
Fat babe Joanna in a bright orange t-shirt featuring a cartoon fat cat on a pink motorcycle, flying the progressive pride flag
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My Bloody Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"I cannae make her any thiccer captain, I dinnae have the power"
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Fat babe picnic happening next Saturday! Not me organising it but i fully support the kaupapa!
Are you a fat babe? Do you like picnics?
Come along with a plate to share and enjoy a body loving space and connection with other fat babes!
Please note this is a women's space which of course includes trans women. Nonbinary people who feel comfortable in Women's spaces are also welcome.
Please also note anyone who identifies as fat (or whatever word feels comfy) is welcome.
Lower Hutt Women's Centre-186
Knights Road
• Saturday July 26th
1pm-4pm
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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
What news! A case for joy! 🎉🙌🏽❤️ congratulations brilliant @nuapk.bsky.social!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Giant front page article about ailing NZ fashion that even quotes my beloved production manager, and not one single mention of the fact that one major reason people don’t buy NZ fashion is most refuse to make sizes that fit the majority of population
Cover of newspaper
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The 5xl femme cut is 69cm flat (nice!) and of course I've taken down my shop so I can't tell you what that is in Boom equivalence but probably about a size 26?
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Your fat friends will love this too, photos of seating in places you wanna go with them!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The thin-obsessed world is growing more unflinchingly vicious to fat people again, while others stand by and do nothing to stall it. When you hate our bodies, you are teaching everyone to hate theirs."
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Kickstarter for CASTLE OF BOOM please www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
nzherald.co.nz
Wellington castle with colourful past for sale
The agent says it could be an ambassadorial residence, wellness centre or function venue.
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We’re all set up and ready for Fat Queers Eating Cake, so even if you haven’t registered, take a RAT and come join us at the Tararua Tramping Club
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fat Queers Eating Cake as part of @wellingtonpride.bsky.social is tomorrow! Here's what to do 1. Register www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/fat-que... 2. Take a RAT 3. Bring kai if you're able 4. Eat & relax with your community 5. Get your portrait sketched, if you want, by the Creative Itch Collective
Fat queers eating cake promo image, featuring a stock photo of fat babes with added on cartoon cakes and trans flag bunting, all text in link
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And don’t forget to stock up on RATs this week - all attendees are asked to test beforehand
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
(It’s -always- been a very good time but…)
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Also, don't forget to pick up some RATs, because we're asking everyone to test beforehand, since it's an indoor event and eating & drinking is hard in a mask
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Have you registered yet for your free ticket to Fat Queers Eating Cake? It’s less than a week to go! What kai are you bringing to share? www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/fat-que...
Fat Queers Eating Cake, 1pm, 15 March. Take up space with your community
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
PSA fats: Torrid has basically halved its shipping cost ($50NZ instead of $100 so still $$$) it arrived in less than a week and you can browse the site in NZD now. I got (as well as my fav bras) a high necked bikini after too many burnt titties
Fat babe Joanna wears a sea green button up bikini top and smiles
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
PLUS SIZE BALL OUTFITS NEEDED! Yes For Success are hosting an outfit-finding session for queer youth before @wellingtonpride’s Youth Ball & i wanna make sure that fat teens get included w plenty of choices too. Got something suitable in your wardrobe that you’re done with? Slide into my DMs!
A page from Joanna’s scrapbook with an incorrectly panorama photo of her in a shiny blue dress and Doc boots before her 1994 homecoming dance, and the flyer for a play called ‘Love, Death & the Prom’ she was in around the same time. The play sucked and she cried a lot cos she had a crush on a boy and let someone tell him for the first time ever and he didn’t like her back, and a boy she now realises had a crush on HER teased her about it. Get better dressses and get better stories!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Just got my Covid booster as part of this arm size effectiveness study and it was real weird to not have to double check they were using a large needle. I recommend joining the study if you’re eligible though having to give a full life prescription history was a little trauma-stirring for me
needlelength@mrinz.co.nz is the email to contact
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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Come eat cake* with meeeee *I will be bringing something other than cake, I am no baker
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
And the whole @wellingtonpride.bsky.social events calendar is online now! Find some other fun things to do too!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is total and utter fatphobic - and ableist - bullshit www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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GPs say Wellington Hospital rejecting patients based on BMI
Health NZ denies patients are being rejected solely on BMI, despite letters that list the blunt tool as the reason - with GPs fearing it’s a tactic to manage waiting lists.
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Shout out to the amazing Iona - not only did she make this amazing outfit at the Grammys but she also made all of YOUR clothes. Well the ones from House of Boom, anyway! www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3605...
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Taj Mahal’s daughters bring NZ fashion to the Grammys
Wellington-based sisters Deva Mahal and Zoe Moon, the daughters of legendary American blues musician Taj Mahal, have been photographed wearing New Zealand-made garments at one of music’s most prestigi...
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hello! It's me again! I'm vaguely back with an event as part of Wellington Pride Festival. Fat Queers Eating Cake is exactly what it says on the tin - a free potluck gathering for fat queer community & joy on Saturday 15 March - full details at the link houseofboom.co.nz/2025/02/03/f...
Text: Fat Queers Eating Cake! Take up space with your community by sharing kai & solidarity & joy. 1pm Saturday 15 March, Mt Victoria. A sticker over the top says "Please bring food to share if you're able" 

Image: a photo of fat babes sitting at a table together, overlaid with cartoon cakes, rainbow cupcakes and trans flag bunting
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Ruth Jackson @olivesparkles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is my response to the political situation in the USA #queerjoy #queerart #resistance #hope #fattiesagainstfascism
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"Her research is on an issue that is often overlooked in psychological care- unconscious bias against [fat ppl]. Despite training to avoid bias, her findings reveal clinical psychologists can still carry implicit prejudices - highlighting critical area 4 improvement" www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2024/12...
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Uncharted territories—exploring the unconscious bias of clinical psychologists towards fatness | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Penny Kokot Louw crossed the stage in December, as Te Herenga Waka's very first Doctor of Health graduate.
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Pōneke Sky, settle down, it’s too late, there is no more House of Boom, stop trying to make it happen
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Tv show recommendations from the Flytrap theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/young-fat-...
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Young, Fat, and Gifted
Two new streaming comedies show viewers are eager for stories about fat Black women that don’t just rewrite old, damaging scripts about our lives.
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fashion has ALWAYS been political
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If you happen to browse houseofboom.co.nz, you might notice things look a bit different. The shop is gone, the fat liberation work lives on. I’ll post there (and here) when I feel like it or when I have something to say.
houseofboom.co.nz
House of Boom
Fat is not a four letter word
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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Also up for grabs: a bunch of compostible FS and A3 size r3pack mailing bags. I’d be happy to mail these to you if you pay for courier r3pack.co.nz/collections/...
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Compostable Bags
R3pack's range of compostable bags are made with corn starch, PLA and PBAT.  We use non toxic inks to provide you with a natural alternative to traditional plastic based courier bags.  Our compostable...
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Empress of the Internet @johubris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello, are you in Wellington and would you like to own some collapsible clothing racks for free? Collect from Thorndon, I have at least six going spare. Also, anyone need a million plastic hangers?
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Very last edition of Boomagram is out now mailchi.mp/c1968b4ddb8d...
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Farewell from the House of Boom
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Y'alls final donation to InsideOUT, based on 10% of all rainbow sales since April is $72 (that's a lot of necklaces!) but since it's GiveOUT Day still, that gets doubled to $144 giveout-2024.raiselysite.com/insideoutkoaro. Over the past six years, we've raised a couple of thousand ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Also Pōneke, legendary Sara has just taken NINETEEN large bags full of good quality plus size clothing leftover from our epic #campboomnz clothing swap to Aunty Dana’s in Newtown, so maybe check them out soon! auntydanas.com
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Aunty Dana's Op Shop
Boutique clothing at op shop prices
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Okay, these are the very last 12 items of House of Boom clothing left, two necklaces, earrings & a couple of pencils. The site is coming down at the end of the week, so this is your absolute last chance. Use HALFOFF to save 50% on things that are heavily discounted already
Last rack of clothes arranged in ROYGBIV
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello this is what someone wrote about #campboomnz this weekend www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebr...
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Celebrating the Joy, Liberation, and Inclusivity of Camp Boom: A Weekend of Community and Connection
This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending an incredible event called Camp Boom, a weekend-long gathering specifically designed as a fat liberation space. Camp Boom is for those of us whose b...
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Two people can’t come to camp because of Covid and of course as a Covid responsible host my policy is refunds for them but ouch money. So if someone wanted to buy a last minute ticket for this weekend, let me know!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Tomorrow night! Come along!
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Here’s possibly the second to last Boomergram - 50% off everything, FREE fat swim this Friday and go see Your Fat Friend. Take tissues cos you’ll cry mailchi.mp/4cf5802b7c55...
mailchi.mp
50% off everything in the last official week of Boom
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Oh look, it's Boom on a mug.
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
It’s the last official week of The House of Boom and I am desperate to clear out the last of my stock. Use HALFOFF to save 50% off everything and see you at the free Fat Swim on Friday?
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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Fashion ghost #halloween #fashion
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
"There is actually no power in you throwing something that you think is pejorative at me, because I'll accept it and take it and therefore I have no shame,” she said." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... This also works for being called fat too, by the way
stuff.co.nz
Stuff
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House of Boom @houseofboomnz.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Less than three weeks until I close House of Boom but there’s still racks of clothes & accessories left? Please help! Use code THIRTYTHREE to take 33% off already heavily discounted products. You’ll be getting beautiful ethically made clothes below cost price
33% - use code THIRTYTHREE for discount
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