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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


The Tie BetweenQueerness & Veganism: Fact orFiction?
By Petra Shotwell (she/they) Illustration by Yi Jong I’ll admit it – I love tofu; hummus and crackers are one of my favourite afternoon...
Petra Shotwell
Mar 14, 20227 min read


WWPD? What would Papatūānuku do?
By Vivien Whyte (she/her) Viv sat down for a kōrero with Dallas Abel, the Project Coordinator for the Kai Ika project, to talk about...
Vivien Whyte
Mar 14, 20225 min read


NFTs Explained by a Communications Graduate
By Lizzy Carmine (she/her), illustrated by Yi Jong (she/her) Editor's note: this article expresses the author’s views, and we recommend...
Lizzy Carmine
Oct 11, 20216 min read


Employability and Careers at AUT
By Angela McCarthy (she/her) Angela from the Employability and Careers team wants you to know that job hunting help is just around the...
Angela McCarthy
Sep 27, 20215 min read


Active Allyship in the Fight for Rainbow Mental Health
By Lizzy Carmine (she/her), illustrated by Yi Jong (she/her) On September 8th, submissions closed for New Zealanders to share their...
Lizzy Carmine
Sep 27, 20215 min read


Expectation Society
By Lizzy Carmine (she/her), illustrated by Yi Jong (she/her) The weight of expectations in society are pressures that can help motivate...
Lizzy Carmine
Sep 13, 20215 min read
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