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Zoology Rainbow Committee
@zoologyrainbow.bsky.social
The Zoology Dept strives to be a welcoming and inclusive environment where staff and students feel safe and supported to be themselves.
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🌈✨ Throwback to Rainbow Happy Hour (15 Aug 2025)! ✨🌈
Colourful snacks, Bingo, prizes & the brightest outfits filled the Zoology Tea Room with joy 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who joined & to our prize donors 💜
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🌈☕✨ Throwback to Scones with the Zoology Rainbow Committee! ✨☕🌈

On 12th August we shared good vibes, fresh scones, and colourful company. Thanks to everyone who joined us — your smiles made the morning even sweeter! 💜🌸
September 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
🌈✨ Rainbow Happy Hour! ✨🌈
📅 Fri 15 Aug | 4pm | Zoology Tea Room @zoologyotago.bsky.social
🎨 Face Painting
🎉 BINGO!
🍹 Colourful snacks & drinks
👗 Prizes for Most Colourful Outfit!
Bring your brightest self & join the fun! 🎉
August 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌈✨ Zoology Rainbow Extravaganza – Aug 12 ✨🌈
🫖 Morning Tea (~11am) – Scones by the Zoology Rainbow Committee!
🎲 Zoology Board Game Night – Rainbow Week Takeover! (~4pm) – Gnome Hollow, Hues & Cues + snacks! 🍿
📍Zoology Dept, Uni of Otago (tea room)
All welcome! 🏳️‍🌈 @zoologyotago.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
For a city usually dressed in black, there sure is a lot of colour - as noted by international travel publication, Wanderlust Travel Magazine, naming Dunedin NZ as one of their top up-and-coming LGBTQ+ travel destinations.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
🎨🧵 Dunedin Pride Monthly Crafternoon
Come along every third Sunday, 12–3pm at the Dunedin Public Library (2nd floor, Adult Learning). Bring a craft or try something new with supplies provided. A relaxed, creative space for all ages and skill levels! 🌈✨
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May 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🌈 A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Tie-Dye Your Lab Coat event! Your creativity, colour combos and energy made the night amazing. Benham Garage was full of rainbows, laughs, and style. We hope you love your new gear—thanks for making it such a vibrant success! 💖
April 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
🎨 Tie-Dye Your Lab Coat!
Join the Zoology Rainbow Committee for an explosion of color, creativity and snacks! Bring something cotton to dye, something plastic to carry it home, and wear mess-friendly clothes.
🗓️ 28 April 2025, 5:30 PM
📍 Benham Garage, Zoology
April 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Everybody has the right to be proud of who they are! Celebrate this year’s Wear it Purple Day on Friday 30th August by wearing and accessorising with anything purple you have!!
August 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
One half of world-famous gay penguin couple, at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, dies.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sphen the penguin, one half of gay 'power couple', dies age 11
Sphen and his partner Magic shot to global stardom in 2018 when they fell in love at a Sydney aquarium.
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August 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
We had an amazing Rainbow Happy Hour last Friday!! With good music, yummy snacks and drinks, a fun quiz, a huge attendance and lots of amazing prizes won, we had a fun, colourful and inclusive Friday evening at the @zoologyotago.bsky.social
August 25, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Are there queer animals? Clownfish that change sex, and other species that demonstrate queer behavior
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/are-...?
Are there queer animals? Clownfish that change sex, and other species that demonstrate queer behavior
Here's how queer behaviors show up in the animal kingdom.
www.worldwildlife.org
August 14, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Get ready to paint the town every shade of fun! Join us on Friday, 23rd August 2024, 4pm to 7pm, for the most vibrant event of the year—Rainbow Happy Hour!
August 14, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Amid sociopolitical tensions and the need for understanding sex and gender, Nature's special collection, including a submission by Professor Hamish Spencer, offers a thoughtful approach to exploring human differences without hate and prejudice for the common good.
www.nature.com/immersive/se...
Sex and gender in science
How to navigate a challenging area of research to the benefit of all
www.nature.com
August 11, 2024 at 11:15 PM