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News From Uganda Skate Society 

An Interview with Gose Gerald by Toby Brockelbank and Patrick Kigongo Photography credit: Tommy Hatwell @tommyhatwell  Nexus are super stoked to have talked to Gose Gerald of Uganda Skateboard Society again. If you follow skating, you’ve probably seen them in the news recently as their super unique park has been

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Skate Ukraine, A Year Later 

An Interview with Mykhaylo Tevkun by Toby Brockelbank  Nexus are super grateful to have sat down with Mykhaylo Tevkun of Skate Ukraine for another interview. If you haven’t seen last year’s interview, Something Solid to Stand on, check it out. Mykhaylo and I decided to focus this coverage on what

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The Girls Skate Crew of Nepal 

Interview with Girls Skate Nepal by Toby Brockelbank Photos by Tirtha Lawati (@tirtharabinlawati)  Nepal has been in the news lots recently, for the recent floods which Girls Skate Nepal described as “devastating for many communities in Nepal” – there will be suggestions by the crew for supporting disaster relief at

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MADE TO BE WORN 

Who decided Māori fashion was only for special occasions?  There is this idea that Māori clothing and adornment belong in a particular category: something traditional, something formal, something you wear when the occasion calls for it. But Māori fashion has never really been that simple. We make things to wear.

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TŪ PAKARI I TŌ MANA ĀHUA AKE 

Tōku tuakiritanga  Ka whakato te kākano….  I mua rā nō i tōku hekenga mai ki te whenua. Tīramarama au i te kiko o te rangi, ko tōku wairua e kōriporipo ana i te puna wairua o ngā Rangitūhāhā. I tiro whakararo au ki te mata o te whenua. Kei te

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Who, Studying What, and From Where? Stats of our Cohort

By Andrew Lin. Nexus got a nerd to get an Official Information Act request on enrolment demographics here at UoW. Wanna see if engineering really is a sausage fest (it is) and which stereotypes our cohort might defy (a few)? Curious how 7 subjects could make up almost half of

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Nexus Interview Amber Clyde – Founder of Girls Skate NZ 

Girls Skate NZ is a not for profit who have been running skate lessons for 8 years. The organisation has carved their way into parks all over Auckland and shown how far some funding and some gnar can take you – even supporting Kiwis competitively shredding!  What did you enjoy

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Active Imagination: How Protests Hold Power.

‘Protest’ falls into the lexical category of both noun and verb. The past participle is not commonly used. We say that we are ‘protesting’ but very rarely do we say that we have  ‘protested.’ This is because change and power are both results of ongoing imagination  and continual action. The

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The Good Shit Has Changed

In today’s day and age, when you step out into the public world, you’re very likely to see an array of people clutching an array of drinks that all have one thing in common: caffeine. You’re probably holding one yourself, whether it’s a hot coffee spewing steam, a cold coffee

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When the Attacker Becomes the Story

In the hours following the attack at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, the focus of public conversation shifted with remarkable speed. Before many people knew the names of those injured or understood the impact on Berlin’s LGBTIQ+ community, headlines were already highlighting one particular detail: the alleged attacker’s links

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Bisexual girls are allowed to have boyfriends- just accept it.

Since pride month has finally ended, it’s appropriate to talk about what’s happening to bisexual women in queer internet spaces at the moment. Since the 1980s, there has been an observable rift between bisexual women that date men and lesbians, which has been recently revived on social media. I sat down with Sonja Ellis, a professor

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The iPad Kids Aren’t Alright 

A New Plymouth primary school has phased out the use of iPads for students in years one to four.  Omata School was one of the first in the country to adopt the use of devices in the classroom, but Principal Karen Brisco is now not so convinced that they are

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