With approximately 20,000 people who use NZSL daily, it is not just a language, it is a way of life that has created its own ecosystem in the community, where we can thrive among peers like us.
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Over the past few months I’ve been sitting down with tutors to see what their current role looks like, following reports of job changes in the tertiary education sector. They have detailed their experiences along with descriptions of idealised working conditions. COVID-19 has put extra strain on an already struggling system, and it’s beginning to wear tutors thin.
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We all have a love-hate relationship with influencers. Whether you love to hate them, or hate to love them, influencers have reconceptualised what fame is and who has access to it.
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It can be a strange feeling to know you are a part of a culture, but not feel any connection to it. To be asked what your hapū and iwi is, but answering with uncertainty. Knowing you have to introduce yourself with your pepeha, but you have no idea what that even means.
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You stand before a gargantuan vending machine. It towers into the sky, shrouded in mist and cloud. A small round plaque sits at the bottom: “minimum purchase $871”.
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2020 is infamous in a lot of ways, and maybe as we look back it will be remembered as the time we almost legalised cannabis.
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I’ve lived here four years, winter is coming, and I am still quite scared. It is very understandable if you are too. But fear not! Here is the ultimate students’ winter survival guide:
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2021 has had a stressful start, and I know a fair few of us have leaned into smoking, whether that’s durries or doobies. This article is in no way endorsing this; I’m gutted that I got into smoking in first year because it caused a lot of problems for me financially and mentally
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On the kitchen floor of my first year common room, amidst the noodle packets and Nitro stains, lived a pair of electronic scales.
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I recently watched Minari, an A24 film documenting a Korean-American family’s experience with moving to rural Arkansas in search of the American Dream. It’s a heart warming, heart crushing story about the immigrant experience, and follows a strained family in their attempts to mend their relationships and uphold their cultural roots while searching for success in a new land.
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In the last year, the internet has seen a dramatic increase in both supply and demand of online erotic content, and in turn, severe pushback by social media executives and legislators alike to keep sexual content off of sites such as Instagram and Patreon.
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Whatever you want to call it, a genre of pornography centered around familial, non-blood relations has exploded in popularity. Everyone seems to know it’s a thing, but two questions remain largely unanswered: How did it get this way? And, should we be concerned?
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The thing is, you guys, there is quite literally nothing sexier than having sex with someone who isn’t afraid of your body and all the ‘grossness’ it has to offer.
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