“The story goes something like this: In my hometown of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, there is a statue of Queen Victoria on Cambridge Terrace. Queen Victoria was the ruling British monarch during the colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s indigenous peoples and their lands. Across the street from this monument is a pub where my parents and their friends used to drink together on a Friday night. I was told that, after the pub closed every Friday night, people would leave the pub and cross the street to pee on a particular side of the plinth. They hoped that with regular saturation, the ground on one side of the plinth would become so soggy that the statue would fall over.”

Thank you M. for your story ✨