FEATURE | WRITING | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Anonymous | Contributing Writer ‘What if you hate me?’ she asks playfully, pacing while on the phone with a stranger. ‘And what if you hate me?’ he asks in return, matching her energy. So in the spur of the moment, she says yes, thinking, what’s the worst that could happen? He picks her up from the train station, getting out and opening the car door for her. The ride is tentative - small talk filling the spaces where silence

FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Corey Fuimaono (he/him) | Contributing Writer Illustrated by Vik Sazhina (she/her) | Contributing Illustrator It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get stuck in creating our own press. It’s time for more independent media, run by people like you and me. Events over the last few weeks have convinced me that platforms are falling victim to constant pressures so easily: be it internal finances, government crackdowns, or by forces that hol

FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Sara McKoy (she/her) | @saramckoy | Contributing Writer Illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Feature Editor From 30 September to 2 October, climate experts from across the globe congregated in Austria for the first ever Overshoot Conference . With the world heading almost certainly towards exceeding 1.5°C of warming, the event aims to create space for discussions on how we can go about navigating the consequences of

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FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise_sadlier | Contributing Writer Rejection. I’ve never been good at it. I spent the summer on the couch, popsicle dripping down my wrist, refreshing Seek and offering up prayers. I had high hopes for the year. I saw each month stretched out before me, clean and full of potential. I fantasized about a working holiday in Bali, a cute gallery job, money flowing into my account. I was finally free from unive

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FEATURE | REVIEW | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Ricky Lai (he/him) | @rickylaitheokperson | Contributing Writer ‘You need to be bigger, you need to be bolder, and you need to be everywhere’ , declared Kaine Thompson, Chair of the 2025 board of the Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival on its opening night in Tāmaki Makaurau. These words were their vision statement as accrued from the previous year’s feedback, and yet I, who couldn’t have been sizzling more with e

FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd  | Feature Editor It's the year 2025. Craft-Tok has been igniting...

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An ode to the urban legends of the internet and to the cringe teenagers who get it. FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Tahlia...

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FEATURE | TE AO MĀORI | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise_sadlier | Contributing Writer From cosmogony and...