Kightley wrote the play at the age of 25, performed in 1997 by Pacific Underground, depicting the events of the 1970s raids inflicted on Pacific Islanders by the New Zealand Government.

Despite our parents’ constant warnings that reality shows will turn our brains to mush, these shows have simply become ingrained in modern culture and consequently our own consciousness.

Our loss of language is ever present in our minds and as we move throughout the world. “Our mother tongue, it looms like a ghost in the background of a lot of our experiences,” states Kris.

As everybody’s eyes were on the Black Lives Matter movement, there was a moment that hinted towards a wider public understanding of the need for abolition. As people started calls to defund the police, the goals of prison abolition felt more achievable, more obtainable.

His music masters the duality between singing and rapping through a unique blend of exciting, homegrown sounds. It is the harmonisation of these skills that provides a fresh and innovative sound for listeners and the Aotearoa music scene, pulling together a diverse portfolio of music that draws from his own experiences, while still finding strong influences from different sounds.

As children of the diaspora, we are always trying to find ways to navigate our way back to our homeland and ancestors. Though we’re vastly different in so many ways, the Moana connects us back to our heritage and to the journey our ancestors made from Hawaiki.

The Aotearoa ballroom scene is a captivating community that is created by and for QTPOC. Taking inspiration and giving respect to the mana of the American ballroom scene, Aotearoa has created their own platform that has allowed for the flourishing of queer brown excellence.

I have had the honour of sitting down with Sean Mallon, author and Senior Curator Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, as well as Sāmoan musician Caroline Tamati, also known as Ladi6, to talanoa about how tatau can support Sāmoan identities.

For students, most of whom are existing off measly costs from StudyLink, the impending doom of home-ownership seems completely out of reach.

Western mothers across the globe are increasingly turning to micro dosing capsules of magic mushrooms to ease the stress of parenthood.

The Income Related Rent Subsidy (IRRS) is a government subsidy that caps tenants rent at 25% of their weekly household income, with the Government topping up the rest. While both Kāinga Ora residents and those within CHPs are eligible for the IRRS, Wellington City Council tenants do not receive this benefit and are required to pay 70% of market rent.

This week, I’ve sat down with some people who are living their lives in direct antagonism of stranger danger and the advice that our parents tried so hard to instil in us.

The Girl Boss trend rippled to the surface of our consciousness when white women everywhere began breaking the glass ceiling and taking their seat at the table.

There is a plethora of research out there that evidences the link between ethnic identity and well-being. Many of us reading this right now are the evidence of this. We are the next generation of New Zealand-borns, who have been dealt the challenge of navigating our acculturation to Aotearoa while trying to keep our ethnic identity secure and whole in the process.

Through an online petition, party co-leaders, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, called for the removal of the British Royal Family as head of state, as well as for the creation of a Te Tiriti centric Aotearoa through constitutional transformation.

I’m sure many of us have felt exhausted and frustrated as the health inequities of Pacific communities are framed as the individual failings of Pacific Islanders themselves.

“What did everyone do during all these lockdowns around the world? They listened to music, they watched movies or TV shows, they read books. All these things to fill up everyone else’s time was an art form which has now been left in the dust.” - Roxy Leppan. These feelings were reflected in the conversation I had with Carlos McQuillan,

Prison abolition is a subject that is generally considered utopian or idealistic – something out of reach and unachievable. For this reason, it is usually overlooked and dismissed with a sweep of the hand that implies without prisons, our society would be reduced to anarchy. This is actually far from the truth, and it is becoming ever more essential that Aotearoa divorces itself from its reliance on the prison system.