SPILL THE TEA WITH TASHI COLUMN | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written & illustrated by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor-in-Chief Scroll to the bottom of this webpage to submit your own question for Tashi to answer: https://www.debatemag.com/spill-the-tea-submissions Q: Do you have any advice on moving on from unrequited feelings for someone whilst maintaining your friendship with them? (In my case, it's a long-distance friendship). I know it might be better if I just stop talking...

EDITORIAL | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Dear reader, I’ve got a seriously bad case of nostalgia. As far back as I can remember, I’ve loved looking as far back as I can remember. It’s like an addiction. A compulsion to rehash every experience I’ve ever had and to bore any innocent bystander to death with my remembrances. Every day I wake up and exclaim in pure rapture that the day before has now become a day in the past that I can look...

COMIC | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Created by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor

EDITORIAL | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor In 1959, a New Zealand writer published a novel about gay love. Two years later, that novel was banned in New Zealand for being indecent. Now, 67 years after its original publication, A Way of Love is being republished, and its story is an important piece of Aotearoa’s queer literary history. Written by James Courage (1903–1963), A Way of Love was first published by Jonathan Cape in London in...

Help! I Can’t Find the Tea Under All of This Choking EDITORIAL | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Kia ora e te whānau, and welcome to the dungeon. In last year’s Sex Issue editorial, I harped on about what the average everyday vanilla civilian could learn from the BDSM/kink community. How, you may reasonably ask, could activities so alarming to the respectable imagination possibly improve one’s relationship with intimacy? Allow me to...

EDITORIAL | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor When I chose this issue’s theme, I knew it would be popular. With Covid-19 lockdowns only five short years behind us and the now decades-long hand-wringing over social media addiction, I knew that the university students of today would have a lot to say about isolation. However, this theme has proven to be so popular that, in a frenzy of excitement, I accepted more articles than I should have and went...