Who Teaches the Teacher?
Nexus Editor Toby sat down with Teaching Fellow, Paul Ashman, to discuss his perspective on education. Who taught the teachers that taught teachers how to teach teachers? Aaah, the chicken or the egg in an educational context. For me, Mr Aldridge was my inspiration to teach and now I’m teaching the teachers. How do you […]
Artful Thinking
Tackling Why The Arts Should Deserve Your Respect “How will you get a job?” “The Arts aren’t an essential area” “STEM is more useful” These are questions art students know all too well. For years senior advisors and Governments have been pushing STEM subjects as the most important thing to a functioning, industrial and capitalist […]
Nexus Chat With Dr. Emmy Rākete
“They’d have to kill me before they could make me ashamed of who I am.” Nexus asked Emmy Rākete some questions regarding the Defying Destiny Day of Queer Power she helped to organise in protest against Destiny Church’s attempted silencing of Pride demonstrations. Emmy is a critical Marxist scholar working in the activist-academic tradition and […]
How To Be A Safe Party Girl
‘Teens to twenties is the only time of life where your body functions well enough to party till 4am, then be present in your 9am lecture.’ Doing a little key and having a little line is all fun and games… until someone takes too much, and you all end up in ED. Experimenting with drugs […]
You Never Forget Your First – First Hangover
“I’m too fucked to drown myself in my work.” An annihilated Dylan sits in the light of the Ruakura McDonalds. The fluorescence pokes at my eyelids like a witch’s finger, wreaking all sorts of fucking havoc on my brain. What I remember – not a lot, and not anything I want to – is a […]
How to Survive a Party as an Introvert
They tell you the best part about ‘study life’ is partying every night. While socialising yourself with your new Uni friends is important, it’s fucking hard. I’m sure we’ve all gotten ourselves into the situation where you agree to go to a party because you didn’t know how to say no, or you were feeling […]
What Your Drink Choice Says About You
Vodka: You’re hot, but you’re insane. You’re the type of person to show up to the function with a 1L Smirnoff bottle and just straight raw-dog the entire thing way too quickly then be confused about why you blacked out. Also, give the noise beers a rest, will you? RTDs: You’re invited to everything, which […]
How to Party Like an Absolute Goddess 101
Step 1 – Get off from work at 6 pm in the evening absolutely famished – for a drink with your best friends, after dealing with rude and entitled customers all day. Fuelled with the fury of a thousand suns and determined to have a good time, you make your way to your mate’s place […]
Red Flags VS Green Flags – Flat Party Edition
We’ve all been there. You walk into a flat party, only to realise there’s a horde of business students gathered around a dude trying to mix some shitty DnB on second-hand decks. That’s the point at which I turn around and find somewhere else to drink. Here’s a list to refer to when deciding to […]
The Hunger Games does not need a stage adaptation
I fear we’ve missed the point. I fear the temptation of a cash-grab and readapting reliable IP has overshadowed the inherently anticapitalistic and rebellious themes of the original story. Aside from the fatigue of seeing so many remakes and beating so many dead horses, did no one stop to think about how creating a “Thrillingly […]