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Climate Fatalism - Is It Getting Us Anywhere?
By Liam Hansen (he/they) Everyone remembers that one cooked week in March 2020 when the pandemic started. It was like that scene in...
Liam Hansen
Aug 15, 20225 min read
C*ntry Calendar
By Briar Pomona This story was first published on Pantograph Punch Country Calendar is a Kiwi classic and one of our most popular local...
Briar Pomana
Aug 15, 20225 min read
A Love Letter to Auckland
By: Roro Vinod (they/them) The formative memories of my childhood are set in a terraced house at the end of a desolate cul-de-sac....
Debate Magazine
Aug 15, 20224 min read
The Pipi Beds
WORDS | Briar Pomona (she/her) ILLUSTRATION | Yi Jong (she/they) Nanny and Papa lived opposite Te Rehu, our marae in the inland village...
Briar Pomana
Aug 3, 20224 min read
Please just make me toast and hold me tightly
WORDS | Petra Shotwell (she/they) ILLUSTRATION | Yi Jong (she/they) a personal essay because covid sucks and I miss my mum I’m a...
Petra Shotwell
Aug 3, 20223 min read
Nostalgia for the world (before it all turned to shit)
By Ethan Berry (he/him) If you were in New Zealand on January 5th 2020, you’ll remember a surreal and apocalyptic haze of orange smog...
Debate Magazine
Aug 3, 20223 min read
WHAEA FITS
WORDS | Briar Pomona (she/her) ILLUSTRATION | Charlie Ratahi (she/her) My favourite thing about hui are the whaea fits. I’ve been a fan...
Briar Pomana
Aug 3, 20222 min read
CAR SEAT HEADREST'STWIN FANTASY& QUEER TEENAGE SADNESS
WORDS | Liam Hansen (he/they) The four and a half years since Car Seat Headrest re- released Twin Fantasy have been a weird time. It’s...
Liam Hansen
Aug 3, 20227 min read
My Dad’s CDs:A Retrospective
By Sam Clark (he/him) One of my core childhood memories is sitting on Takapuna Beach under the pōhutukawa trees with my dad. He would...
Debate Magazine
Aug 3, 20222 min read
Harold The Giraffe Made Me Terrified of Drugs
WORDS | Liam Hansen (he/they) Behind the iconic mammal that preached healthy living to a generation Primary school in the mid to late...
Liam Hansen
Jul 18, 20228 min read
Fear and Loathing in Port Waikato
By Anonymous Illustraion by Lucy Higgins (she/her) @iggyucy I’m not much of a stoner these days. It’s something that can be traced back...
Debate Magazine
Jul 18, 20224 min read
My Neighbours, The Drug Dealers
WORDS | Briar Pomana (she/her) ILLUSTRATION | Yi Jong (she/they) One was twenty-something and the other probably sixty. They both sold...
Briar Pomana
Jul 18, 20224 min read
The Beloved Tinnie - Another Casualty of Shrinkflation? Debate Investigates.
By Anonymous For as long as any drug user can remember (potentially not very long), the tinnie has been a pillar of Aotearoa drug...
Debate Magazine
Jul 18, 20223 min read
Music Snobs: gatekeeping assholes, or just as insecure as the rest of us?
WORDS | Petra Shotwell (she/they) ILLUSTRATIONS | Yi Jong (she/they) If you were to ask, I’d tell you my favourite band is Bon Iver....
Petra Shotwell
May 3, 20226 min read
When Coming Isn't Going
By Petra Shotwell (she/they) Illustrated by Yi Jong (she/they) I love thinking about sex. I’ve always loved thinking about sex – or, at...
Petra Shotwell
Mar 30, 20226 min read
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