Rainbow crossings and Pride Parades signal queer progress. But Will Hansen argues Aotearoa still has a long way to go for queer folk to feel safe.
Why did people care more about Notre Dame burning than the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka? Where was the sympathy from the white New Zealanders who still had ‘They Are Us’ frames on their profile pics?
Reflections on Yuichiro Tamura’s Milky Mountain at the Govett-Brewster
As the Oceania exhibition closes at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Matariki Williams looks at its time there, and forward to its next site at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris.
Repatriation researcher, Amber Aranui, considers the inclusion of Toi moko in the exhibitions in Te Papa's Toi Art gallery.
Georgina Langdon-Pole on an Auckland exhibition's delicate act of reclamation.
"She isn't a friend because she's a writer. She's a friend because I like her."
David Hall speaks to Dame Anne Salmond about her new book
On some social issues, the distinctions between political parties is clear-cut. But when it comes to migration, Pasan Jayasinghe and Sahanika Ratanyake argue, progressive voters face a near-impossible choice, and some will feel a sense of betrayal.
Duncan Allan assesses the value of the music behind some of the worst movements in the world.
Eloise Callister-Baker goes to a conference that challenges her diet, and the country's more generally.
Pasan Jayasinghe charts a lifelong fandom with Bic Runga's undersung second album.
Joe Nunweek chats to Max Harris about his ambitious new book and political possibility in Aotearoa
Megan Dunn on the fin de siecle world of Auckland strip clubs. their patrons and their drinks of choice.
Helen McNeil on a flashpoint in industrial action, and the town that survived it.
Orlando Edmonds on what James Baldwin still has to teach the South Pacific's colonial states
Eloise Callister-Baker attends a art workshop for grieving children, and asks whether we can still find something in loss.
David Hall talks to Citizen Potawatomi Nation philosopher Kyle Whyte during his recent NZ visit
Harrison Christian joins a kava circle in Hamiton East
Saziah Bashir on solving poverty by pretending to give it a go.
Why the war for Auckland is rooted in historical violence, not generational angst.
Doug Dillaman on four convention-busting NZIFF documentaries.
Lana Lopesi on being an artist and being a mother, and those who won't let the two meet.
Florence Reynolds on visiting the harsh reality of Nepal's rebuild
Lana Lopesi on how the Pacific diaspora took to Twitter
Michael Grimshaw on three Southern writers in the wilderness.
Why aren't there more songs about the experience of parenting? Gareth Shute scours the earth.
Lana Lopesi goes to a symposium of the Pacific, but not necessarily for it.
Elizabeth Beattie follows the radical NZ poet's steps to the Whanganui River
Eloise Callister-Baker on NZ's pioneering photographers
Dan Kelly on what might have been the last Chronophonium
Hermione Johnson talks to Susan Alcorn ahead of her NZ tour