We all remember it, the all-encompassing dread and deep-seated boredom of a school assembly with a guest speaker. Pretending to pay attention to...
It was a rant that did it. I am grateful, now fuck off , wrote Emily Writes in 2015, catapulting herself into...
As the time for university and scholarship applications draws near, my peers are voicing...
Yes, that’s right. Please stop. You’re making women feel uncomfortable about a body part that is no different from any other. Women with boobs...
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. The customer is always right.
What a...
Like just about everyone else on planet Earth, I went along to see Avengers: Endgame recently...
Our planet is in trouble. We’ve known about the climate crisis for some time, and now more than ever is the time for collective action. But there’...
If you think you don’t know Nat Puff, aka Left at London, you’re probably mistaken.
She’s the internet...
The days following the Notre Dame cathedral fire were fraught with grief and shock as the world...
Flying across the world and finding yourself (or just drinking a lot of alcohol and eating your weight in croque monsieurs) is seen by many as a...
Did you know that doctors in the United States are executing babies after birth? That’s right. Look up ‘born alive’ on Twitter and you’ll discover...
The Madonna-whore dichotomy is the epitome of compartmentalisation. It describes the perception of...
The Mirena intrauterine system is one of the best forms of contraception in the world. Unfortunately, due to our country’s current funding...
“All I’m hoping for is that it starts big conversations,” Joni Nelson tells me about her first play, 8 Reasonable Demands . The young playwright...
“It’s her choice!” has been the online battle-cry of feminists for as long as I’ve been socially aware enough to know what a feminist is (which,...
Conferences. I don’t know if I’ve ever attended one that I loved. If there’s a choice between sharing an air-conditioned room with 200 strangers...
Tall poppy syndrome has been a part of New Zealand culture for nearly as long as we’ve been a country...
After some recent hoopla around the validity of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (...
Over the years, I’ve attended numerous classes where university lecturers have passionately promoted the supposed value of mindfulness. Breathing...
No matter how comfortable we are with it, it’s undeniable that true crime is one of the most popular and lucrative sectors of pop culture ....
Joan Didion, speaking on her husband’s shock death in 2003, said she was afraid for the next year to begin. Once the next year began, her husband’...
Growing up, the people in my communities never talked about motherhood as though it were a choice. It was always a matter of figuring out the when...
If you’re reasonably in touch with the world, you may have noticed the rising sensation of KPOP, the rampant...
On There Will Be No Intermission, Amanda Palmer’s first solo album in seven years, the artist sings...
It’s bizarre that until recently skincare was an area of my life in which I’ve never taken an evidence-based approach. Over the years, I’ve bought...
In late 2017, while looking for an angsty romance to read for a hike around Stewart Island, I stumbled upon...
As the conversation around sexual assault gains worldwide traction, I’ve discovered a disturbing...
“I’m gonna get it, you’re going to get it, we’re all gonna get it.”
That was...
Being pretty is a privilege. Being pretty opens doors that are closed for so many others. Being pretty brings power and prosperity.
How?...
I’m writing this from my flat in Christchurch. Only two streets over...
There was a moment in Dirty John ’s final episode that really made the show for me. It had so far been a...
This is not us.
The words ring. As though saying them over and over again etches them into the whenua. Oh we want so badly for...
Let me just start off by saying that I have a lot of admiration for people who choose to maintain a vegan or vegetarian diet. Depending on where...
On Saturday afternoon we commemorated the Christchurch terror attack with a vigil in Auckland. A sea of Aucklanders poured into the city. We...
We are not the Us we...
According to my mum, I’m a spitfire.
She didn’t use that exact word – being a native Mandarin speaker – but I remember, somewhere in my...
Remember when Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, confessed to grabbing people by their...
A tone-deaf Hollywood actor, an up-and-coming British director and a Northern Irish playwright with very different ideas try to put on a play… It...
I stayed in a three-year relationship out of fear that my partner would harm himself if I left....
Women have historically been excluded from the world of finance, and a significant amount of stigma persists around women having conversations...
Happy International Women’s Day!
…Or is it? Happy, I mean...
Allow me to tell you about my quintessentially kiwi adolescence. From the ages...
Māori music is at the very heart of the Auckland Arts Festival this year, with Tōku Reo Waiata taking centre stage as the centrepiece festival...
New Zealand has a strange relationship with its own culture. I’d say it’s debatable whether New Zealand even has a culture. I’m not talking about...
We need to talk about our attitude towards food. The body positivity movement has made impressive changes to the way we think about our bodies –...
Let’s be honest – pop culture hasn’t always been kind to women. Or...
They may not have won gold tonight, but these are the women, and women-led films, that truly deserve our applause...
Every year, a report about New Zealand fashion manufacturers and suppliers is released. The brands are assigned a grade based on the ethical...
Founded in Te Atatu, ‘I Am Eva’ is the latest big thing on the NZ period scene. Perhaps they’re...
I love true crime documentaries. Netflix has fuelled that obsession. Once I’d watched Making A Murderer , it suggested The Keepers . The...
I’m excited. The Oscars, only the most important event in the global film industry, are a week away tomorrow. I can’t wait to see Debra Granik...
Unless you have been living under a pop culture rock...
Jack Kerouac went to Mexico and slept with lots of women. Yawn. He road tripped across the country; he did...
I kept diaries when I was younger. I leaned them against my knees and wrote in them nightly. When I was a child I wrote about my friends at school...
I feel so stupid when it happens. The ‘you’re-a-phony’ siren goes off at such a high screech inside my head; it almost surprises me the neighbours...
Social media is messing with young women. I’m not saying that as a baby boomer who thinks technology is evil. I’m saying that as a young woman...
As screen awards season continues, fans and those in the industry...
Hey, sister with a heavy heart.
I’m so sorry about the things you’ve been through.
Know that I feel you, and I hold you in my...
Find me a TV show that shows teenage girls in all their raucous yet insecure high-school glory. Go on, ya...
I’ve decided to cut the bullshit this year. Below are my own personal no filter 2019 resolutions. Feel free to steal them, adapt them, use them or...
It’s a slow Saturday morning and I pore over the newspaper with my newly-wed sister. Behind the bench our mother darts around the kitchen. Bacon...
