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...
When it comes to climate change, I’ve been feeling a bit deflated about my efforts to make a difference for a while. Every thing that I could buy...
According to Caroline Calloway, Instagram captions are art . At least, her Instagram captions are art. She puts a lot of time into documenting her...
One of the great myths of the palatable modern feminism that we’ve all become accustomed to is this: women should never criticise other women,...
If I hear the word ‘Avatar’ I don’t think of blue people in a jungle.
I think of my siblings and I crammed into a two square-meter study...
These last few months, we have seen nations enact a collective response in the face of a global threat, showing us similar action is possible in...
In 2018, inspired by the #MeToo movement and an onslaught of...
I’ve been a part of various feminist Facebook groups for a while now...
Know Your Place , Golriz Ghahraman’s memoir,...
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
How many times were you asked that as a child? How many times, as an adult, have you asked a...
“In university, you find your tribe.”
Among other less welcome, more invasive pieces of advice that...
You know him. One of him. If you’re involved in feminist conversations, you will have encountered a version of him.
He thinks women should...
In 2012, I was accepted for admission to Seoul National University’s College of Humanities. I never ended up going that spring, choosing instead...
I’m 23 years old, and for at least a month this year, I was an avid user of Tik Tok. Don’t judge me, okay? We all got bored in lockdown.
...
I’ve always been late to the play. Last year, deciding the time had finally come, I decided to read the Harry Potter series. It wasn’t that I’d...
There’s always a line for the fitting room on the days I shop, though I have been thrifting a lot more lately. Most...
With the Black Lives Matter movement gaining steam (and achieving results) across the globe, Black media...
Though posting on social media and showing up for protests are important ways to show solidarity, it’s important we’re mindful to not engage in...
In 2020, celebrity culture seems to be crumbling before our very eyes. What with the tone deaf videos of millionaires singing “Imagine” from their...
I know NZ likes to think that we are different.
Our government is competent, as the last two months...
Undergarments have always been about more than just fabric for your private parts. Reflecting the spirit of the times, lingerie has evolved over...
No cops, anywhere, should have guns. That much is simple. But it would take major upheaval to remove weapons from the militarized police forces...
