ARTS | ISSUE ONE | TUAKIRI / IDENTITY Written by Natasha Munro Hurn she/they |  @ utopia_for_sale  | Contributing Writer I crave distortion because it heals me. I am a personal riot, even at times when I desire not to, but then again, I am in a hetero world after all. No one can shut off this queerness because this is my utopia. I am broke as fuck but beautiful and alive!!! My practice is best seen as both an embrace and a release of my experience as a queer non-binary trans

FEATURE | ISSUE ONE | TUAKIRI / IDENTITY Written by Vinti Shiron she/her |  @ vintishrnprod   | Contributing Writer What makes  your identity? The way you dress, the food you eat, the hobbies and interests that accumulate as you age. When we are young, we start collecting each element of our identity.  From ma, I inherit my need to create and my strong intuition. From pops, my wit and logical thinking. Everyone I have ever met, and everything that I have consumed, has left a

FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Rose Scott (she/her) | @aut_ventures   | AUT Ventures For students, identity is rarely set in stone. School is a space of development – where who you’ve been begins to loosen, and who you’re becoming starts to take shape through not only learning, but community. For some, that journey unfolds naturally. For others, it becomes something lived and learned. Poi+ was born from this in-between. Founded by Joe Patuki (Tainui, Ngāpuhi), Poi+ is a m

If you’re a student mourning your OE, craving a change of scenery, or desperate to reinvent yourself in a new city without dealing with passports and visas, a new pilot programme between AUT - Te Wānanga Aronoui O Tāmaki Makau Rau, University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, and Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington may be up your alley.

We’re starting off the year with a theme that can feel insurmountable: identity. It shapes our sense of self, from our bodies to our communities, spanning the personal and the political. For some, it’s a passing thought. For others, it’s a lived reality every day. And right now, identity is being weaponised.

ARTS | TE AO MĀORI | TUAKIRI / IDENTITY Written by Skye Lunson-Storey (shethey) | @uku_rangi  | Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past.  In an age of disappearing stories and endless scrolling, there’s something radical about ink on paper. It archives. It refuses to vanish. For Indigenous and minority communities in Aotearoa, that permanence has always mattered. Print has histo