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Anti , Revisited Ten years later, Rihanna’s finest hour begins to sound more and more like her final It’s been ten years without new Rihanna music. To people my age, that might not feel like such a statement. We spent our teenage years seeing the star as everything but a studio musician: as a makeup tycoon, a lingerie designer, an actress, a Super Bowl Halftime Show, a mother, a billionaire, a Jonathan Anderson fan. So it’s hard for me to imagine or to reconstruct that moment

If you’re on a dating app—or honestly just trying to meet anyone—it’s pretty likely you’ll end up getting ghosted at some point. The 21st century gave us great things: streaming, online shopping, and food delivery at 1am…but it also gave us some proper rubbish ones. Ghosting being right up there. Your Hunk Unc has done his time in the trenches of the dating apps, and here’s the reality: it’s hard. So hard, in fact, this Hunk eventually jumped off them, worked on himself over

Holly Rowsell Content Warning: Anti-trans Rhetoric, State Violence (ICE),  Epstein. The state of media ownership is pretty fucking dim right now. Most of the major streamers are owned by mega-rich, MAGA sympathizing white guys who are carefully orchestrating the mass monopolisation of media. These are modern-day super-villians, and each year they’re getting bolder. For anyone unfamiliar, here's a recap of their greatest hits:  Warner Bros. Studio, who we can thank for the big

Guy van Egmond Little Penang What: Nyonya (Chinese-Malay-Javanese fusion) Price: $8.00-$17.00 When: Open for lunch and dinner, Monday–Saturday My one true love, my ride or die. The place to go for a hug on a plate.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ God bless Little Penang and its delicious, liberally–portioned plates of Peranakan perfection. This shining beacon of a restaurant will be 15 years old this year, but might as well have existed forever. There’s something that I can never quite pinpoint that

Tēnā koutou katoa,   Nau mai haere mai ki te Whare Wānanga o Te Herenga Waka!   Ko Ngāi Tauira mātou!   We are the Māori Students Association here at Te Herenga Waka. Our purpose is to enhance all that tauira Māori experience during their study.  We provide support with hauora, promote academic success, encourage whakawhānaunga, and engage with cultural kaupapa. We provide a voice and advocate for tauira Māori at Victoria University of Wellington and also promote Te Tiriti o

Jackson McCarthy New True Romance  Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights looks to the past to find a future  “Can I speak to you privately for a moment? / I just want to explain”. So begins Charli xcx’s ninth studio album, in a huskily-voiced spoken-word piece by John Cale (The Velvet Underground). But that opening track, ‘House’, with its creep and crescendo, its screams and distortions, is about as dark as Wuthering Heights gets.  Though it’s been conceived of as a companion piece

Guy van Egmond Nau mai and welkom to Munch , your weekly guide to a bite to eat that won’t devour your budget. I’ll be your taste-tester of Wellington’s finest frugality; your penny-pinching truffle-pig to hunt down dining deals. My appetite is both discerning and decent, so if I’m full, trust that you will be too. But besides taste and portions, I also want to share the places in town that look after you—that feel homely (or surprisingly swanky)—and those that make their mea

Hunk Unc: How do I know my friendships are good and healthy? Most people don’t realise a friendship’s off because something bad  happens. They realise because something small keeps happening. You catch the bus home and feel oddly flat. You lie in bed replaying a conversation. You feel more tired after hanging out than you did before—that’s usually the first sign. Good friendships don’t leave you feeling like you’ve just done a full-body session you didn’t consent to. I had a

Shay McEwan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou) As we head into the final stretch of classes for trimester two, I wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on how the year has been. Initially I thought it would be a fun idea to speak on my own experiences. Instead, I was lucky enough to be surrounded by a wonderful bunch of tauira in the wharekai of Ngā Mokopuna. While sitting down with them, I was able to ask about their experiences, how the year has been

Column by ISO Socialism can be a suspicious kind of politics. You’ll often find someone trailing the money, or exposing some hidden...

By VUW International Socialists / ISO Is there any point in voting in local elections?  Yes! And  let’s stay active in other ways too....

Mark your calendars, foodies, because National Dumpling Day is back on September  26! This year, we’re leveling up the celebrations with...

Almost two years into the current genocide Israeli soldiers and officials celebrate the destruction of Gaza, and deny the destruction of Gaza. New Zealand politicians advocate for America’s “rules-based order” while America facilitates war crimes.

Words by: Ursula Holmes If you’re a frequent visitor to Unity Books Willis Street there's little doubt that you’ve perused the pillar of...

Nā Kaea Hudson (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe)  From the 18th-24th of September, Ngā Rangahautira took a delegation of senior Māori law...

By VUW International Socialists / ISO ACT leader David Seymour, Labour leader Chris Hipkins, and National leader Christopher Luxon all...

By Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition It goes without saying at this point: trans communities are under attack. Around the world, our lives...

By VUW International Socialists (ISO) Every Pride month, the world becomes swamped with rainbow merchandise and generically queer slogans...

Law & Disorder (VUWCC) What happens when a group of law students decide to take on the world's worst polluters? They trigger the most...

By VUW International Socialists / ISO As promised, the Government is putting more cops on the streets. Green MP Tamatha Paul caught flack...

Ngāi Tauira Column, Shay McEwan (she/her) Te Whānau-a-Kai, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou. For many student associations, preparing for a...

Ah, the mid-degree crisis—a proud tradition right up there with oversleeping lectures and pretending to understand Student Finance when...

By Pōneke Anti-fascist Coalition Life can feel a bit overwhelming these days. But sometimes, the simplest acts, like sharing kai, can...

By VUW International Socialists / ISO Last month more than 36,000 nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora voted to...

By VUW International Socialists / ISO We hear all the time that socialism is “when the government does stuff”, but is that actually true?...

Column by: Climate Clinic VUW Was your last essay a work of Chat-GPT? Or break up text for that matter? Generative AI is inescapable, and...

The first time I was introduced to Islam was through a terrorist joke.  Just a kid playing Halo  on my Dad’s Xbox 360, on a tiny TV in...

Whether you like to go out on the town, or a relaxed Sunday Brunch, Wellington has entertainment for everyone. With a vast selection of...

It began probably sometime in the 1800s across the United Kingdom as a collection of words borrowed from other languages and slangs

Solomon Islands & Niue

Over 200,000 Kiwis are registered in the long Covid registry. We’re out here—just struggling in silence. 

We are all pre-disabled. The notion of a liveable life is always connected to an able body.

The Toroa and Blue Duck debate the pros and cons of a job at the student rag

Sextortion, a form of online blackmail, is on the rise, affecting many students who are vulnerable to online threats.

Though AI is a tool that can be utilized for the greater good, using AI to write your essays is 100% using it for the greater bad.

Welcome back to Salient’s Pacific language learning!

Ngā Taura Umanga (NTU) was established in 2006 to encourage, support, and advocate for the needs of tauira Māori studying any commerce paper

Nō te tau 2006 whakarewahia ai a Ngā Taura Umanga hei whakatenatena, hei tautoko, hei hāpai/taunaki hoki i ngā hiahia o ngā tauira Māori

“E tama mā, e hine mā. Tērā te atua e pātai mai ki a koutou, I pēwhea e koutou te reo rangatira i hoatungia nā e au, ki a koutou” 

Nei au ka noho ki te māhau o tōku whare o te Tumu Herenga Waka.   Ko wai rā, ko wai rā te tipuna kei runga ko Kupe.  

Ngā Rangahautira’s beginning was in the small number of Māori law students that would informally come together.

Kia ora and welcome to your guide through the Maramataka, starting the 16th of September 2024

Kia ora! E hīkaka ana au i tō kōwhiri i tēnei pukapuka! Ko Te Rātā Campbell ahau, ko au te Āpiha Tūmatanui o Ngāi Tauira, te Rōpu Tauira Māo

From Rangitāne to Te Arawa 

He kaha tā tātou whakaaro ake ki te ako i te reo Māori, engari tēnei mea te ako

Kei ngā tini whenuwhenu, kei ngā aho manomano, kei te kāhuinga waka, nei mātou ko Te Mana Ākonga e tuku reo hihiri atu ki a koutou katoa.

Kia ora! I am so excited that you’ve picked up this magazine!  Welcome to Te Ao Mārama

It is clear we are seeing global rises in harmful misogyny, and that Aotearoa is not exempt.

Pōkai Tuhi was an opportunity for Moana authors and learners to engage in creative experiences that centered our ways of knowing and being.

Mahuru Māori is a month-long initiative in Aotearoa New Zealand aimed at promoting the use of te reo Māori in daily conversations.