Before ending up in a research rabbit-hole of ‘he-said’, ‘she-said’ type articles, I spoke with Shadow* who was diagnosed with DID early 2021 to help us better understand the realities of what living with DID is like. * Name Change

Every week I’ll be watching the worst rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes so you don’t have to. I’ll be doing one every week until the final issue where I’ll review the worst movie ever made (according to a random article I found).

“My weekends became far more productive, whereas before they would be dedicated almost entirely to drinking and being hungover. “

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University of Auckland Associate Professor and vaccine expert Dr Helen Petousis-Harris explained that the WHO's emergency setting was a call to action rather than an indication that we should all panic.

Make It 16 is an advocacy group for lowering the voting age in New Zealand. The campaign started in 2019 as a product of Youth Parliament, and has worked its way up to a national network of people advocating for 16- and 17-year-olds to be granted the right to vote.

Not just extracts, but entire chapters, the only chapters you’ll need to study for the semester. Yet here you are, $200 (excluding shipping) poorer, because you were told to buy a super duper ultra-rare physical copy of the book as a required text.

But, as I’m sure with many kiwi kids, the try hard was slowly strangled out of me in favour of seeming cool. This was a big thing in high school, but now that we’re a bit more grown up, why can’t we go back to our try hard selves?!

Julian Tanaka, team lead of Massey at Wellington Students’ Association (MAWSA), said “Housewarming Week, as a week did go really well even if the weather was shit.”

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Everyone loves a scandalous confessions page. You’re never sure if what people saying is fake or not, but that’s what make these pages great.

Half of us get periods, and we all know it isn’t really spoken about it unless we’re around other uterus-owning folk. Men’s testosterone levels are spoken about day after day. Period talk is taboo, boy talk is expected.

Ann Evans from Canine Friends Pet Therapy says, “We just can’t believe the difference. Students come in with solemn faces, all stressed because it’s study week, and they leave happy as and willing to face the day. It’s unreal the difference that a four-legged dog has on you.”

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.

I absolutely did not go on a Europe trip to ‘find myself’, I went on a Europe trip to see some cool sights and test the stamina I have for an international bender.

Within the last decade, the resurgence in vinyl and cassette has been astounding. CD has managed to stick round, never really dying out but never being the giant it once was, but vinyl has come back kicking and screaming.

Traditionally, signing with a record label was a given. With the rise of the internet came the opportunity for music to be promoted to a wider audience, where the artist would create the music and the label would take care of the business and promotion. But, that has changed.