Features Aiden Wilson (they/them) Features Aiden Wilson (they/them)

The Eddie Effect

The acceptance and love for characters like Eddie have normalised being the energetic weirdo, helping people who identify with such characters to feel the love and acceptance in their social groups.

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Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her) Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her)

Body Positivity or Body Neutrality?

TW: Mention of EDs.

The body-positive movement causes raging debates in Facebook comment sections and sends middle-aged white ladies into a total meltdown. The notion that people might feel confident and happy at any size triggers a deep rage in people who live and die to support diet culture.

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Features Lily Petrovich (she/her) Features Lily Petrovich (she/her)

Split personalities

Before ending up in a research rabbit-hole of ‘he-said’, ‘she-said’ type articles, I spoke with Shadow* who was diagnosed with DID early 2021 to help us better understand the realities of what living with DID is like. * Name Change

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Features Aiden Wilson (they/them) Features Aiden Wilson (they/them)

An addition to your crippling debt…

Not just extracts, but entire chapters, the only chapters you’ll need to study for the semester. Yet here you are, $200 (excluding shipping) poorer, because you were told to buy a super duper ultra-rare physical copy of the book as a required text.

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Features Lily Petrovich (she/her) Features Lily Petrovich (she/her)

Periods if you don't know, now you know

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.

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Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her) Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her)

An Abolitionist Perspective on Cancel Culture

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.

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Features Aiden Wilson (they/them) Features Aiden Wilson (they/them)

Spinning The Black Circle

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.

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Features Lily Petrovich (she/her) Features Lily Petrovich (she/her)

TikTok is taking over

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.

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Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her) Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her)

Ages and Stages: How music changes with us.

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.

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Features Mason Tangatatai (He/Him) Features Mason Tangatatai (He/Him)

Singing shows ranked from best to worst (but they’re all kinda shit)

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.

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Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her) Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her)

Artist Spotlight: Chase Woods  

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.

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Features Sammy Carter (she/her) Features Sammy Carter (she/her)

A Musical Saga of Shaded Exes  

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.

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Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her) Features Elena McIntyre-Reet (She/Her)

So much potential... Young Overachievers

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.

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Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her) Features Mia Faiumu (She/Her)

The Poetry of the Moana

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.

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