“Nine years I’ve lived in the super city, through which time I’ve seen it grow and change almost as much as I have.”
On going far away in the pursuit of pleasure.
Call it survivor’s guilt or a deep ancestral wound but thinking about feeling good while the world is on fire Just. Seems. Wrong.
Clare Marcie charts new territory during a close encounter with the Astrology Foundation of New Zealand.
Athena Zhu reflects on getting married far away from home to someone her birth family had never met.
NZ's own model icon reflects on the empowering - and troubling - moments in the new documentary.
"I’m discovering how much more accessible happiness is when it’s not contingent on my girlhood."
In her new exhibition, the poet and arts leader asks: how can we keep making and keep ourselves in the process?
'The striking confidence and blasé carefree attitudes of my friends made me realise that I’d regret it if I didn’t bare all and join them.'
We aren’t all self-obsessed or lacking in social skills.
The author is a reminder of the deep whakapapa of diasporic storytellers and the waters they traverse to nourish us all.
"Her pain of being an immigrant meant her discomfort and displacement gave me freedom."