There are a few things in life that white people just can’t handle. Things such as any curry that is spicier than mild, when people use the Māori language, and discussing racism. This is called white fragility (I don’t think the curry thing comes under it, that’s just being...
I hear that recently aunty Cindy has been having a bitch and a moan about electric cars and how New Zealand should get behind the whole electric vehicles as a way to save the environment (don’t quote me on that, the only news I know about this topic is...
Being a female DJ is not a common experience but being a female in a male dominated industry is. The sexualisation and sexism that female DJ’s experience in the New Zealand music scene is something many women can relate to. From only being given gigs purely because they are...
Lately I’ve been asked for my opinions on Jordan Peterson. They are not good. Particularly worrying is that pseudo-intellectuals on the left seem to be on his side. Don’t get me wrong, he is a very smart man. But smart in the same way that a stoat is smart....
Recently I downloaded one of the best apps ever: Poop Maps. There’s something so uplifting about getting a notification that my mate has absolutely destroyed the toilet bowl. What’s even better is knowing exactly where they dropped it and if it was a 5/5 dropping. I’ve never been one...
With the launch of the Frank Power Company ads, I felt optimistic. Here was an advertising campaign that appealed to my working-class sensibilities and no-nonsense approach. The ad has my favourite NZ comedian Cori Gonzales-Macuer in it, and is actually funny. There’s a dude in a funny asterisk costume...
Gone are the days of sitting at the back of a GoBus, just past midnight, surrounded by other half drunk students dressed in some kind of sexualised get-up (I’m talking Toga bikinis and old school uniforms Britney spears style). The excitement of O-week is widespread across all whare wānanga...
