Haututū. Mōrearea. Kaimārehe. Ngā kātuarehe taketake, huia tūrae i ārahi i te oranga iwi. He haututū, hei kaiwhakatuma i upoko pakaru i ngā whakawhiunga o nehe, o nāianei e hanga nei i tētahi ao hou.
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Haututū. Menace. Troublemaker. Tricksters are badass indigenous figures who transgress the status quo and lead cultural resets.
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A spectre is haunting Wellington. The spectre of communism.
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Students are a fiery bunch. We enter university, an institution full of new people and new ideas, and we have a hunger to change what’s wrong with the world.
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To those who have never walked its hallowed halls, Law School is both ostentatious and illusive. A cool kids club to some, a pretentious prison to others.
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For most people, their first exposure to the literature of Aotearoa starts in high school.
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When Monica Brooks got Covid-19, the infection didn’t go away after seven days.
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Getting access to birth control is one thing. Accessibility to affirming provision of birth control for queer and gender-nonconforming people is another.
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Today I woke up feeling shit. My alarm went off at 8:30, but staying in bed until 11:30 was the only option.
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Depression and I go way back. We’re tight. Buddies, so to speak. Like many other students balancing uni, mental illness, and the soul-crushing pain of student debt, last year I began therapy again.
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“I’m Mauatua.” My name feels like home in my mouth. My own whare. A hoem that holds so much history, meaning, mana.
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Tall, queer, brown and beautiful. I’ve always had a fascination with how people walk, the purposefulness of their direction, led with their own two feet. Sounds easy doesn’t it?
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I attended my final year of high school at Wellington East Girls College in 2021. I was catching up on schoolwork and buying lunch from the canteen. It seemed like any other day. But it wasn't.
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I present to you my magnum opus of dating advice. From one lovesick fool to another.
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I’ve been single my entire life. Given I’m twenty-one and blessed with a combination of chronic lesbianism and half-hearted cynicism, this is hardly an earth-shattering revelation.
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Shit can go south very quickly in the early phases of dating. All it takes is a single ick and poof, the magic’s gone.
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Last week I interviewed some of my male friends to get their opinions on love and relationships. Their names have been changed in order for them to remain anonymous.
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The fight for climate action happens on parliament lawns, on lines of rising sea levels and…in courtrooms.
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We will remember it vividly. Thousands of students earnestly fill up streets across the country.
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Looking into the future and considering the climate crisis often feels bleak and depressing. The science is clear.
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