COLUMN | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Luke Fisher (he/him) | @lukefish7__ | Sports Columnist Illustration by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Meeting potential partners post-uni is hard. If you weren’t aware, I’ve transitioned to unc status, having graduated from AUT last year. Much like how America is a third-world country wearing a Gucci belt, I’m a child who can make small talk around a coffee machine and complain about the traffic. I guess I was hoping my

RECCOMENDATIONS | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Sophia He (she/her) | Graphic Designer

COLUMN | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Isaac Tenzing | Drugs Columnist Theoretically endless. The answer to both how long a piece of string is and how many videos you can find of Joe Rogan talking about isolation tanks on YouTube. The wellness influencer community seemingly has a new topic for their self-help manuals every other week. Podcasts recorded en masse aim to sell your soccer mum neighbour on the idea of cortisol management. Humorously enough, infatuations with th

A Room Full of Strangers ONE MOON COLUMN | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Priscilla Zhang (she/her) | @p.zhangxy | Columnist Last week in counselling class, we were talking about trust. One idea from our handout stayed with me: sometimes, the people who put the most energy into helping others or giving advice are the ones who find it hardest to share their own concerns. I recognised something in that. Moving to another country has made me think about trust differently. Yo

KŌRERO TOI | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Skye Lunson-Storey (they/them) | Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | @uku_rangi | Arts, Culture, and Te Ao Māori Editor Art has the ability to become a bridge between people and the environments they inhabit. Through processes of colonisation, urbanisation, and extraction, we have increasingly become disconnected from our environment. Isolated from the whenua that sustains us. This disconnection is not only physical,

EDITORIAL | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor When I chose this issue’s theme, I knew it would be popular. With Covid-19 lockdowns only five short years behind us and the now decades-long hand-wringing over social media addiction, I knew that the university students of today would have a lot to say about isolation. However, this theme has proven to be so popular that, in a frenzy of excitement, I accepted more articles than I shoul

COLUMN | ISSUE NINE | WHAKAKATA / HUMOUR Written by Ricky Lai (he/him) | @rickthelai on IG & Letterboxd | Columnist Da Hip Hop Witch (Dale Resteghini, 2000) Directed by the music videographer who’d go on to lend tone-deaf visuals to Busta Rhymes’ ‘Arab Money, Da Hip Hop Witch was a Blair Witch parody riding on four plots interwoven with no discernible rhythm. (A) Female staff at the office for a tabloid magazine fight off their creep of a boss. (B) A gang of youngins from Sal

KŌRERO TOI | ISSUE NINE | WHAKAKATA / HUMOUR Written by Isabella den Boogert (they/them) | @belladbb | Contributing Artist Isabella den Boogert is a multidisciplinary artist who works between the mediums of sculpture and printmaking. They explore the internet-driven culture of performance, self-presentation, and identity in the digital age, using text and found objects as tools for exploring culture. Often delving into the rabbit holes and dark trends of the internet and pop

Last week, I was in Shanghai, sitting beside an open window. I had nothing urgent to do. No assignments. No volunteering. No part-time shift. No gym. My phone had somehow ended up on the other side of the room. The closest things to me were half an iced watermelon. Cicadas buzzed outside as if the afternoon had nowhere else to be. It had been raining all afternoon. The rain stopped. Then started again. Then stopped again. Normally, I hate weather that can't make up its mind.

BREAD & CIRCUSES | ISSUE EIGHT | SCREENS Written by Luke Fisher (he/him) | @lukefish7 | Sports Columnist Annotated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Statistically, women’s sports aren’t as good as men’s. * *Starting strong with what is arguably the worst opening sentence we've ever published. The ball hits the back of the net with less ferocity. The runaway tries are scored at a less-than-blistering pace. The sixes sail over a boundary rope dragged closer to

It’s 33 Degrees Today. Are You Wearing Enough Clothes? ONE MOON COLUMN | ISSUE EIGHT | SCREENS Written by Priscilla Zhang (she/her) | @p.zhangxy | Columnist Every morning, before I even look outside my window, I look at another season. It appears on my phone. My mother has a habit of telling me the temperature back home. I think it is her way of sharing something real, something happening around her body, across the 6,000 miles between us. "Yesterday was so hot and stuffy,"

FILM COLUMN | ISSUE EIGHT | SCREENS Written by Ricky Lai (he/him) | @rickthelai on IG & Letterboxd | Columnist Millie Lies Low (Michelle Savill, 2021) As everybody’s third or fourth choice for a Commonwealth nation — including ourselves, judging from how many of us move to Australia — it’s perhaps not as much a mystery where all the self-diagnosed ‘imposter syndrome’ in New Zealand comes from, especially if you’re competing with your colleagues for the best opportunities. The

EDITORIAL | ISSUE EIGHT | SCREENS Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor Your connection to reality has been interrupted by doomscrolling, binge-watching, and opening seventeen tabs you intended to read. Please do not attempt to disconnect. Click CONTINUE to proceed with Debate: Screens. Loading Debate: Screens… Please wait. I’ve tried writing this editorial over, and over, and over again. The problem is that there are no outside perspectives anymore. Screens

FILM COLUMN | ISSUE SEVEM | MATARIKI Written by Ricky Lai (he/him) | @rickthelai on IG & Letterboxd | Columnist The pūrākau about the formation of Matariki tells us that its stars were formed by an act of grief and anger by Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and weather. To match, I’ve dusted off three essential films on the subject of wind. The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928) Checks out. If there was ever a more comprehensive depiction of wind in film, it’d have to be called Wind 2.