TE AO MĀORI | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Skye Lunson-Storey (they/them) | Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | @uku_rangi | Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, 1804, Jean-Gabriel Charvet The present-day understandings of gender and sexuality of Indigenous people across te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa have been disrupted through the colonial gaze that enforced their Christian and heteropatriarchal values. Historically, such va

Help! I Can’t Find the Tea Under All of This Choking EDITORIAL | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Kia ora e te whānau, and welcome to the dungeon. In last year’s Sex Issue editorial, I harped on about what the average everyday vanilla civilian could learn from the BDSM/kink community. How, you may reasonably ask, could activities so alarming to the respectable imagination possibly improve one’s relationship with intimacy?