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By Walter Hamer Zamalis The 2023 New Zealand general election was one in which Aotearoa saw nothing in its future, and so voted according...

By Shaw McEwan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou) and Taipari Taua (Muriwhenua, Ngāpuhi) Sex and love have always been...

Stories from a life spent behind the bar By Courtney Plaize (she/her) Being a female bartender is hard. Now add management and Courtenay...

By Diamond (she/her) Popular media has been paying special attention to sex work lately. Stripping has become Hollywood's new ‘darling’...

By Georgia Wearing We may have missed the prime years of clubbing when the 2000’s music wasn’t overdone, beers were $1, and the recession...

By Faun Watson A number of years ago, I started attending Wellington kink events with my then-partner. We had the same goals as many...

A Manifesto for the Troublesome Women of Courtenay Place Riona Chen (she/her) I go to the club to make genuine emotional connections and...

By Kaleb AI has its pervasive finger up everybody's prostate. You hear all through the halls of people making faustian bargains for a...

By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) If you’re a Computer Science major, you can stop wasting your money on tuition fees – vibe coding will take it...

Written by Ethan Rogacion (He/Him) | VUWSA Academic VP When Dan - of Salient News Editor fame - interviewed me a few weeks ago about...

By Te Urukeiha Tuhua AI is a new technology that we don’t fully understand yet, and it has the capacity to be used for good. But we...

By Noam Mānuka Lazarus It is no doubt that technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing are developing faster than...

By Jesse Richardson It’s surprising how quickly you can get used to the idea of the world ending. Four years ago, I barely knew anything...

Jackson McCarthy (with advice from the elusive Caliso Slonclover) My friends will find it deeply hilarious that I’m writing this piece,...

Reflections from a Māori postgrad on style and politics by Tanith Wirihana Te Waitohioterangi (Rongowhakaata, Te Whānau a Kai, Te Aitanga...

A feast for the mouth, not for the eyes He aha kē te mea nui o te ao Māori? Ko te tāera o te kākahu, ko te whai i te tikanga raini? Kua...

By Maya Field When I walked into Ziggurat for the first time, I knew it was different from the thrift stores I had been to. The racks...

Te Urukeiha Tuhua TW: Discussions of transphobia and sexual violence Oh, you really thought? Sorry, there are no tips on ‘passing’ in...

By Emma Barnes-Wetere (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui) It’s so confusing sometimes, to be a girl. If my 20s have taught me anything so far, it's...

A guide to bleaching your own designs by Eliza Williams As a broke student in Wellington, one of my greatest ongoing dilemmas has been...