Hamilton Needs a Gay Club
Hamilton has growing queer spaces and has become such an inclusive city, for the most part. We have queer nights at Nivara Lounge and Biddies. However, we are yet to have solely a gay club! The nearest gay club is on K Road in Auckland. As a broke student with hardly any spare time, this […]
Gnar or Nah #2
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. Elissa Steamer (the first female skater […]
Who Kissed a Girl?
Spoiler alert: queer reality television is few-and-far-between. Despite some minor cameos on commonly straight dating shows, the LGBTQ+ community is rarely represented in unscripted media. It’s a space that is dominated by heteronormative ideals and void of the fluidity that reflects modern society. So, while my pitch for an all-bisexual season of Love Island is […]
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
When you think of queer classic literature you think of none other than Queen Virginia Woolf. She is one of the great Modern writers and she was a queer woman. One of my favourites of her books is Orlando. A popular option but for a reason. Orlando is considered one of the earliest novels surrounding […]
Interview with a Queer Feminist Poet – Jenny Rockwell
“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 if I could easily describe it […]
Kendrick Lamar’s Half Time Show
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t just a performance; it was a bold, unapologetic statement that forced America to confront its deepest social and political divisions. The show was a powerful political statement that critiqued the American Dream and highlighted the nation’s cultural divide. The performance was set against a backdrop of platforms resembling […]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
‘The American dream’ is an unattainable idea that “the land of the free” creates opportunities for freedom and success. Changez, the protagonist of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, knows this all too well. Moving from Pakistan, Changez attends Princeton University to seek higher education. As the novel continues, he becomes enraptured by ‘the American dream’ […]
The Montoya-Anita Affair
We’ve all heard it. The anguished yells of a Spanish man punctuated by his feet hitting wet sand as he flees a villa, desperate to catch his partner pre-bone. Reposted by ESPN, subtweeted by F1, and rinsed on many social media platforms: Temptation Island Spain’s Jose Carlos Montoya has broken the internet by running down […]
Gnar or Gnah?
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 whānau was filmed in London by […]
You Never Forget Your First – First Day
They say this about a lot of things. And by ‘they’ I mean… Nobody that I know. Forget it, actually. I stepped onto campus getting lashed at by heat, the sun leering down on me like a Ford’s high beams, which made me the little Nissan at its mercy. Maybe this analogy only works if […]