Half of us get periods, and we all know it isn’t really spoken about it unless we’re around other uterus-owning folk. Men’s testosterone levels are spoken about day after day. Period talk is taboo, boy talk is expected.

As everybody’s eyes were on the Black Lives Matter movement, there was a moment that hinted towards a wider public understanding of the need for abolition. As people started calls to defund the police, the goals of prison abolition felt more achievable, more obtainable.

I absolutely did not go on a Europe trip to ‘find myself’, I went on a Europe trip to see some cool sights and test the stamina I have for an international bender.

Within the last decade, the resurgence in vinyl and cassette has been astounding. CD has managed to stick round, never really dying out but never being the giant it once was, but vinyl has come back kicking and screaming.

Traditionally, signing with a record label was a given. With the rise of the internet came the opportunity for music to be promoted to a wider audience, where the artist would create the music and the label would take care of the business and promotion. But, that has changed.

Similar to rugby or football club loyalty, some people will die on the hill that their favourite band is the best band of all time, or that they're a true original fan, or that Nickelback is actually worth listening to.

Thanks to the resounding success of American Idol, we were eventually subjected to various iterations of this formula, whether it involved a panel that couldn’t see who was singing until they pressed a button to turn their magic throne around, or having celebrities dressed up in costumes while belting out tunes and letting less famous celebrities try to guess the identity of the vocalist in disguise.

His music masters the duality between singing and rapping through a unique blend of exciting, homegrown sounds. It is the harmonisation of these skills that provides a fresh and innovative sound for listeners and the Aotearoa music scene, pulling together a diverse portfolio of music that draws from his own experiences, while still finding strong influences from different sounds.

A revenge album, singing the record straight and rapping threats to beat up your exes' new man all in the past few months. Music artists sing about their life and experiences, but often they take it too far and expose people. Especially their exes.

No news is good news. Initially, this meant that news tends to be bad news. But its other potential meaning also applies here. The news sucks.

Before we gather at the firepit, let's get this straight. I am 100 per cent in no way biased about the islanders. I do not believe Ekin-Su is a God on this earth and I definitely don’t think Gemma needs to drop Luca... or whatever.

Being selected to go to the Gifted Kids Program was the highest honour given to anyone at my primary school. I was never selected, but I used to tell people it was because I was too intelligent for it, in fact I was simply too gifted.

As children of the diaspora, we are always trying to find ways to navigate our way back to our homeland and ancestors. Though we’re vastly different in so many ways, the Moana connects us back to our heritage and to the journey our ancestors made from Hawaiki.

For him, it was a mere passing comment. An item of interest which brushed across his laptop screen, then vanished as quickly as it came. For me, it was far more.

The James Webb Space Telescope is more powerful than anything that has ever been sent into space before, and after 30 years in the making, 1 million miles travelled from earth, 50 successful deployment missions and 10 billion USD spent, it has finally delivered its first full-colour images and spectroscopic data.

I’m able to have conversations with Keanu Fucking Reeves’ ghost whenever I please. Yet, for whatever reason, I am restricted in my pronoun choice, and cannot have anything that isn’t he/she/him/her.

What it means to be an ally is a complicated issue, some people might consider themselves allies simply for not being shitty, ignorant people. Being a meaningful ally is more than just putting a rainbow pin on your clothes when it’s convenient.

The Aotearoa ballroom scene is a captivating community that is created by and for QTPOC. Taking inspiration and giving respect to the mana of the American ballroom scene, Aotearoa has created their own platform that has allowed for the flourishing of queer brown excellence.

Each of these points pose the question of, when there are two women in a relationship, do these roles still get filled, and if so, who fills each?

The idea of an idea dying out is bullshit. Punk cannot be dead for that very reason - it’s an idea.