So, you’re new to flatting? Well, here’s an archetype guide no-one asked for. NIHILISM Nihilism won’t pay rent cos “nothing matters”. Or clean. Or tidy. Or speak to you. Or reply in the flat chat. Or attend flat meetings. Or exist beyond the occasional groan echoed around the dystopian...
Skating is one of those cultures with sanctums around the world, epitomising our urban attitude. LA, NYC, SF, Barcelona, London, Paris, Shenzhen, & Berlin are destinations where we terrorise security guards and fund local bars. We may be skate rats, but we’re rodents that get around. New Zealand’s closest...
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...
“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...
Being queer and skating is a rare combo. It seems to defy stereotypes of both and leave identity in a liminal place. Skating had a reputation as a straight, white, middle-class and masculine place, but this has never exclusively been the case and the community still battle these stereotypes....
“My version of god is very separate from churches now” 1. How would you describe yourself? Hmm, it’s hard to put into words. I know who I’m not. Sometimes that is easier, I think. I do know who I am more than I ever have, I just don’t know...
“Why do gay people talk like THAT? Why can’t they just talk normal? Why do they sound so annoying? Why do they have to ‘rub their gayness in my face’?” Wow miss thing, slow down with that shade before I read you diva. It’s giving rude. Serving uneducated. Maybe...
If you haven’t seen the 12:46 skate video “always whānau”, go watch it now. Posted by “Always Do What You Should Do”, the video contained heavy footage from big names in the local skate scene, such as Cato Dobbs and Theo Clarke (2022 NZ Skater of The Year). Always...
As an angel with a ‘brat’ tattoo that I did myself the day after the album’s release, I felt qualified to get some coverage for Nexus of Laneway 2025. I definitely wasn’t going for Charli anyway, and my priority was certainly journalism and not club classics. Walking around the...
