This The year is 2021, half the globe hasn’t been outside their room in 12 months and showers have become optional. I mean they always were optional, but shower frequency has certainly seen a dip. Smelly people no longer go out – they either can’t or they’ve forgotten how...
In these last few years on my quest of Pākehā identity there are two guiding thoughts by which I have been stirred and spurred on. At first glance, it might appear that the following quotes contradict each other, but I’ve found that they weave together helpfully. “You will...
How to: Look after yourself and your mind in the fight for social justice. Manageable strategies to maintain your energy, connection, and motivation. If there is anything that I can write about, it is the mental impacts of social activism. From experience, there is an insane emotional toll...
The National Party under the leadership of Judith Collins continues to demonstrate their commitment to allowing racism to seep out like an infected hakihaki into society. Their latest campaign ‘Demand the Debate’ was created in response to the 2019 He Puapua report. Basically, it is a report of the...
With a seemingly never-ending plethora of climate issues plaguing the planet at any one time, adding to ongoing feelings of environmental grief with each headline, the breaking of temperature records never fails in exacerbating these feelings, particularly when catastrophic consequences accompany them. Despite being in winter in the southern...
Take a moment to think about contemporary climate activism – who is it that you see as the face of this movement? I’m sure a large majority of you would recall Greta Thunberg, the 14 year-old Swedish girl who demanded climate action from the world. Greta took the media...
In 1863, a British naval officer was given the command of the HMS Esk and ordered to the New Zealand Wars. His name was John Charles Fane Hamilton. The following year, the commander of the British forces in Aotearoa, General Duncan Cameron, who had been warring in Taranaki and...
AQUARIUS JAN 20 – FEB 18 Winter brings change: Change in outlook, change in mental health, and change in temperature. But on the bright side neither Bill Cosby nor David Bain are in prison anymore so we can all go back to wearing sweaters. #Kotetangata #Forthepeople PISCES FEB 19...
This week’s blind date featured not one, but two couples looking for love. It’s hard to turn away a dude who prides himself on being a Mount Maunganui lifeguard and still uses the phrase leshgo. This week’s bachelorette seemed down to earth and modest – opposites attract, right? Here...
As the President of the Waikato Students’ Union, I’m pretty much involved in every student representative role here at the University, from chairing the WSU Board of Directors, to sitting on Council alongside the likes of the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, to Bus for a Buck night shifts during orientation!...
