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...
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Briar Pomana
- Aug 14, 2022
- 5 min
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...
Debate Magazine
- Aug 14, 2022
- 4 min
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....
Briar Pomana
- Aug 3, 2022
- 4 min
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...
Petra Shotwell
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
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...
Debate Magazine
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
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...
Briar Pomana
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
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...
Liam Hansen
- Aug 3, 2022
- 7 min
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...
Debate Magazine
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
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...
Liam Hansen
- Jul 18, 2022
- 8 min
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...
Debate Magazine
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
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...
Briar Pomana
- Jul 18, 2022
- 4 min
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...
Debate Magazine
- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
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...
Petra Shotwell
- May 3, 2022
- 6 min
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
- Mar 29, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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