Everything in: Society
Gender is a performance, and Alex Stronach shares the duality of femininity - complete with her sweet softness and hissing claws.
In this economy!!?! Natasha Matila-Smith has a rant about money and being an arts worker.
The sentencing of ‘prominent businessman’ and arts philanthropist Sir James Wallace reveals the greater complicity of the arts industry in dirty money and the abuse of power. Theatre academic James Wenley asks how we can all step up.
A guide to time travel by Ngaumutane Jones (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tainui, Tūhoe) & Hana Burgess (Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa, Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa).
Vanessa Mei writes on violence and vantage points as an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
Tusiata Avia turns into evil-poet-werewolf, and responds to the complaints against her in the New Zealand Media Council ruling, re: The 250th anniversary of James Cook's arrival in New Zealand.
Khadro Mohamed shares her tips and reflections for observing the 30 days and 29 nights of Ramadan in Aotearoa.
Grace Ko, one of the darlings from Re: News series Dating While Asian, shares her bank of knowledge for getting through breakups.
Flora Xie on celebrating the Lunar New Year by herself – and her desire to reconnect with culturally important holidays despite Gregorian calendar supremacy.
Arihia Latham responds to Te Papa Tongarewa’s series Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho and the call to listen to keep stories of whānau, tīpuna and taonga alive.
Through the act of temporary voluntary celibacy, Jo Bragg gains some personal clarity on the meaning of love.
Julia Craig suggests ways to engage in the politics of love despite the high-octane world of social media and it's damning irl consequences.
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson unpacks what it means to decolonise her emotions and love deeply - just like Ranginui and Papatūānuku.
Janaye Kirtikar reflects on the heteropatriarchal blue prints of love handed down to her, and asks, is this enough for me?
Sinead Overbye talks to Vicki-Anne Heikell and Paul Diamond of the Alexander Turnbull Library about their work with historical collections and the future of storing and accessing our taonga.
Makanaka Tuwe on things falling apart and Saturn making sure they do – changed friendships, new lovers and tower card energy.
Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall explores the deep connection to winter within Māori and W̱SÁNEĆ cosmology, and the benefits of the cold for the girls that prefer to layer up instead of sweat off their makeup.
Nalin Samountry speaks on the grief, love and history carried from mother-to-child in the womb, and the barriers present to access adequate cultural care for recent mothers.
Dinithi Nelum Bowatte on navigating orientalism, desire and harm through the power of her brown girl body.
A South East Asian woman writes about the choice to escape her country of birth in the arms of a Pākēha lover, and what awaited her on the other side.
Emiko Sheehan on tuna: as kaitiaki, as kai, as haututū bad boys, descended from the heavens.
Guest editor of the 呼吸//Breathe essay series, Helen Yeung 希琳 writes on their own experience of survivorship, and how relocating to Guåhan has allowed them to breathe a little easier.
The mainstream wellness industry is repackaging traditional healing practices. Makanaka Tuwe invites us to reflect on the repackaging and our choices around 'self-care'.
A kaupapa inspired by Colin McCahon's legacy has resulted in 1000 healthy kauri saplings grown from trees infected with kauri dieback, on the whenua of Te Kawerau ā Maki. Gabi Lardies investigates.
It's not easy being a biracial woman in Aotearoa. In this comic, Ronia Ibrahim reclaims her identity and self-worth in the face of racism, white supremacy and colonialism.
A poem by Vira Paky on anti-Blackness and racism against Black people fleeing Ukraine.
Cadence Chung on being autistic, and the problems with clinicalising human experiences.
In 30 essays on being 30, Nathan Joe meditates on love, identity and growing up.
Power lies in sovereign expression of sexuality. Ana McAllister and the Pantograph Punch team on thirst-trap photography.
It’s okay to feel angry, lost and helpless right now. Faith Wilson on turning to prayer and water.
Vanessa Ellingham (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki, Ngā Ruahine) on finding her place in the Māori diaspora.
Ashleigh Taupaki on wetlands as wāhi tapu for Māori who rely on them for food, rongoā and freshwater.
Ana McAllister on the protocols she uses to protect her tinana and wairua in her activism mahi.
Ilham Akhlaqi asks when her home country will ever get the chance to blossom.
Today Shaneel stands before the justice committee to make an oral submission on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill. This is their story.
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Whiro has an identity crisis. Michelle Rahurahu and essa may ranapiri kōrero on their own understandings of this dark Māori god: evil, chaos, the void, black holes, and ngārara included.
For the first time, Tara McAllister returns to her tūrangawaewae to sleep on her marae.
Rangatahi Māori creatives and social media influencers discuss the darker aspects of social media, cultural appropriation and cancel culture.
Kate Gear on the Chinese poll tax, an oppressive legacy enacted in 1881 to discriminate against Chinese immigrants.
Editor Faith Wilson has a talanoa with Kelsy and Maluseu from the Far Queue podcast about making safe spaces for difficult conversations.
Tusiata Avia writes a poem in remembrance of the Christchurch earthquakes 10 years on.
