Since finishing Netflix’s latest season of The Crown, I’ve slept, cooked meals...
I don’t know how I missed the publication of Paula Green’s book Wild Honey . Particularly given that the magnificent cover of this charming and...
At the start of 2020, I set myself one resolution: to read one book a week for the entire year. 52 books. The idea was that if I read more books,...
Ariana Grande’s new full-length LP, Positions , is something of a mixed bag. The songs are good, some are even...
In Ben Lerner’s coming-of-age novel The Topeka School, alternating narrators weave a complex tapestry of teenager Adam Gordan’s journey as he...
One of the most significant disappointments of the 2016 US Presidential Election, aside from the fact that Donald Trump won, was just how many...
There was no blueprint for Kim Kardashian’s genre of fame – aside from the obvious. A slew of socialites,...
The pursuit of science is one of the most noble there is.
That is coming from a woman studying Physics, from someone who loves being...
I’ll never forget the day Barack Obama won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. I was in high...
It feels like bad stuff is happening all the time at the moment. Part of that is because it is, I mean, 2020, right? The global pandemic, hellish...
What makes a feminist film?
Representation in film and the media has been increasingly topical, with...
For some, it may be a little too early for talk of Kirihemete. But every year, there is a book that I love so much that I want to buy a hundred...
Okay, nothing is going to save this year – too much tragedy has struck for 2020 to ever be redeemed. Be it wildfires...
When I first started Lovecraft Country , the latest must-see TV show plastered...
When it comes to researching the husband stitch — a.k.a. daddy stitch, daddy tuck, husband knot and all...
I was thirteen the first time I smoked weed.
There’s a funny little anecdote I like to tell about this experience. My boyfriend at the...
This year, for the first time in history, a science Nobel Prize was won by two women. Scientists Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier and Jennifer A....
A week ago today, the nation watched as a giant red wave swept the country. It was stunning and...
In many parts of society, feminism has made impressive changes for the better.
Other parts of society...
Following the news about President Trump contracting CoVID-19, an outbreak of a different kind took hold of our digital sphere. Schadenfreude -...
Honestly, I get kind of sick of watching TV shows that don’t look or sound anything like real...
If someone as accomplished and resilient as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern can be...
Have you ever heard something so absurd that you can only blink?
“I understand actually. My...
As a rule, all coming-of-age stories include the protagonist’s realisation that the world of adults is founded on lies of many shapes and sizes....
Reminders of the dire state of our climate are seemingly everywhere.
“We’re all gonna die” my friends often say to me, casually, over a...
In the days since her passing, long serving liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been described as a: champion; defender; feminist icon;...
I can go a long time without checking my social media. I can go ages.
At least, that is what my brain thinks.
And, when I do hop...
Everything I know about Scientology, I learnt from Leah Remini, an actress who was raised in Scientology from the age of nine, but ended up...
This month, a patient sincerely asked me if I thought it was bad to catch coronavirus. With the world so many months into a global pandemic, that...
Before her serene, defiant (illustrated) face could be found in bookstores across the nation, the girl from...
I’m of the personal opinion that the world shouldn’t have any billionaires.
It might sound radical, but to me, the more radical belief is...
You know those tampon ads that tell you girls can do anything? The make-up ads that talk about the importance of realising your self-worth? The...
I remember once when I was in high school, sometime during the dirty late-2000s, the teachers gathered my peers and I for one of those annual “...
“I know that unless you are spirited and beautiful heiress, life is essentially a to-do list. Which begins with ‘escape this vagina’ and ends with...
Living through Covid-19 has presented tough challenges for everyone in NZ.
Many elderly...
When Lady Gaga’s sixth studio album ( Chromatica...
Every election cycle, we hear the same tired lamentation from politicians, media pundits and various aunts and uncles: “young people don’t show up...
Two years in writing, a lifetime in the making.
Ukraine-born and Auckland-raised, Veronika Bell — known onstage as VÏKÆ — has distilled...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about coming across a political hoarding that read: NO GENDER IDEOLOGY. I wrote at the time : “It took me a while to even...
We’ve all been there. Your lungs quit working for half a second, your eyebrows shoot up your forehead. When you live in a greenie, social justice-...
In chapter 11 of Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s extraordinary book ‘Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons’ , the authors share...
As a long-time fan of Taylor Swift, seeing her new album “folklore” receive such amazing reviews has been equal parts gratifying and frustrating...
On principle, I haven’t watched the bodycam footage of George Floyd’s murder.
Though after reading...
As the CoVID-19 unfolded across the world, media headlines featured some pretty bleak verbs with regards to world economies ( plunge , free-fall...
It’s funny how things go: when a Timaru woman launched a petition in an attempt to stop a drag duo from reading to children at the public library...
When Jacinda Ardern told us to be kind following the new community transmission of Covid-19, she was accused of being “patronising”. In my opinion...
If you’re a person who engages in sexual activities, or you know a person who does, or you’re a member of the Facebook group Girl Related After...
In 2007, when Britney Spears suffered a “mental breakdown,” tabloids...
In her first studio album, Mel Bester, known onstage as E^ST, has laid a piece of herself bare.
Recorded with producer Jim Eliot (who has...
I’m finally on annual leave after a rather intense six weeks of my first general surgical rotation as a junior doctor. “How are you going to spend...
As a nineties kid, I’m watching thirty barrel around the corner with increasing fear. I’d never really been all that afraid of aging. I hung out...
The rise of cancel culture: quarantine orders around the world definitely had something to do with it.
With people...
British singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas has just released her third...
In some ways, it’s hard to think of the members of the Kardashian/Jenner family as real people. They loom so large in the public consciousness,...
My knowledge about history in general is problematically limited. But whatever small and simplistically explained fragments of history were...
In 2008, Rolling Stone ran a cover story called The Tragedy of Britney Spears. It...
On one hand I’m not a sentimental person.
I object out loud to cliches and unrealistic tropes in every rom-com I watch (which makes me a...
When it was announced that former Glee star Naya Rivera...
“Abuelita – I love girls, the way I’m...
For about a month, my social media feed was awash with #BlackoutTuesday panels, heartfelt...
