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Along For The Ride
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
Anonymous
4 days ago4 min read


Fuck it, We'll Do It Live: A case for more independent media
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
Corey Fuimaono
4 days ago6 min read


What the Hell Are We Gonna Do About Climate Change?
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
Sara McKoy
4 days ago6 min read


Comic: You Have a Future
COMIC | FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Comic by Maebh LEIGH McCurdy (she/her) | @leighapparently | Social Media Coordinator
Maebh LEIGH McCurdy
4 days ago1 min read


Inventions + Initiatives to Protect Our Future
ART | FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written & illustrated by Scarlett Robinson-Kean | @scarlett_k_illustrates | Contributor
Scarlett Robinson-Kean
4 days ago1 min read


You Probably Won't Read This
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
Elise Sadlier
4 days ago4 min read


Do It for You
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Joshua Black | Contributing Writer Illustration by Scarlett Kean | Contributing Illustrator As a...
Joshua Black
Oct 66 min read


Harvesting & Resurrecting: Ricky Lai on NZIFF 2025
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
Ricky Lai
Oct 66 min read


Does ChatGPT Dream of Crochet Sheep?
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Feature Editor It's the year 2025. Craft-Tok has been igniting...
Tashi Donnelly
Oct 65 min read


Weaving a Future: How an AUT Student Wove a Future from Strong Woll
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Rose Scott (she/her) | @aut_ventures | AUT Ventures When AUT design graduate student Jacob Smith...
Rose Scott
Oct 63 min read


Rekindling the Love of Filmmaking
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Tara Jade Bellairs (they/them) | @tara_bellairs_portfolio | Contributing Writer Illustration by...
Tara Jade Bellairs
Oct 64 min read


SHARE THIS IMAGE OR HE’LL BE IN YOUR ROOM AT 3 AM (NOT CLICKBAIT!!).
An ode to the urban legends of the internet and to the cringe teenagers who get it. FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Tahlia...
Tahlia Coward
Sep 224 min read


Top 5 Campus Cryptids: What They Study (and Do for Fun)
FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Stu Paul (he/him) | Contributing Writer Bigfoot An athlete since his youth, the basketball...
Stu Paul
Sep 223 min read


The Gods Trapped in My Uncle’s Paintings
FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written & illustrations by Maebh LEIGH McCurdy (she/her) | @leighapparently | Social Media Coordinator...
Maebh LEIGH McCurdy
Sep 227 min read


Baddies o Te Ao
FEATURE | TE AO MĀORI | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise_sadlier | Contributing Writer From cosmogony and...
Elise Sadlier
Sep 225 min read
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