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Announcing The Pantograph Punch’s New Editor-in-Chief!
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In which we farewell one wahine toa and welcome another...
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Announcing The Pantograph Punch’s New Editor-in-Chief!
By Pantograph Punch
The ‘D’ Word: In Conversation with Alice Canton
Read Time: 17 mins
Diversity, like oppression but fancier.
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Art
The ‘D’ Word: In Conversation with Alice Canton
By Lana Lopesi
Suffering is Optional
Read Time: 13 mins
In this moving essay, Sarah Jane Barnett writes about...
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Suffering is Optional
By Sarah Jane Barnett
Make It New or Make It Necessary: Max Harris and the New Zealand Project
Read Time: 38 mins
Joe Nunweek chats to Max Harris about his ambitious...
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Literature
Make It New or Make It Necessary: Max Harris and the New Zealand Project
By Joe Nunweek
Longing for a World Yet to Come: Nostalgia in Contemporary Politics
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Andrew Dean considers his family's heritage as Jewish...
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Literature
Longing for a World Yet to Come: Nostalgia in Contemporary Politics
By Andrew Dean
Resistance Cinema in a Seller's Market
Read Time: 23 mins
In a polemical world, is good documentary withering...
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Resistance Cinema in a Seller's Market
By Doug Dillaman
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Curatorial Edition
Read Time: 28 mins
Indigenous curators Nigel Borell, Ioana Gordon-Smith...
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Art
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Curatorial Edition
By Pantograph Punch
It's About You: A review of Hopes Dashed? The Economics of Gender Inequality
Read Time: 7 mins
Lynn Davidson wondered if she was the right person...
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Literature
It's About You: A review of Hopes Dashed? The Economics of Gender Inequality
By Lynn Davidson
Please take the rope from my throat so that I may sing
Read Time: 24 mins
Talia Marshall explores how James Baldwin's novel,...
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Literature
Please take the rope from my throat so that I may sing
By Talia Marshall
Shiny Red Apple: Food in Fiction
Read Time: 15 mins
Karen Tay explores the role of food in fiction, from...
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Literature
Shiny Red Apple: Food in Fiction
By Karen Tay
The Brooding Elitist Relationship-Wrecker: Tropes of Art and Artists on Narrative Television
Read Time: 23 mins
How do stereotypes of art and artists as seen on television...
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Art
The Brooding Elitist Relationship-Wrecker: Tropes of Art and Artists on Narrative Television
By Zita Joyce
Whose Values Will Prevail?: Kawerau, 1986
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Helen McNeil on a flashpoint in industrial action,...
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Whose Values Will Prevail?: Kawerau, 1986
By Helen McNeil
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Conversation with Jessa Crispin
Read Time: 11 mins
Sarah Jane Barnett talks to American writer and critic...
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Literature
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Conversation with Jessa Crispin
By Sarah Jane Barnett
The (quieter) romance of suburban rail
Read Time: 37 mins
Melissa Laing on first kisses and poetry on Auckland...
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The (quieter) romance of suburban rail
By Melissa Laing
Mine by Right: Copyright in Aotearoa
Read Time: 22 mins
In a knowledgeable essay, Elizabeth Heritage explores...
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Mine by Right: Copyright in Aotearoa
By Elizabeth Heritage
Integration and Denial: Reading James Baldwin after Don Dale
Read Time: 24 mins
Orlando Edmonds on what James Baldwin still has to...
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Integration and Denial: Reading James Baldwin after Don Dale
By Orlando Edmonds
An Homage, a Beacon: On Michael Parekowhai's 'The Lighthouse'
Read Time: 10 mins
What do you expect public art to do? Lana Lopesi reflects...
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Art
An Homage, a Beacon: On Michael Parekowhai's 'The Lighthouse'
By Lana Lopesi
A Period of Absent-Mindedness
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Harrison Christian on a Northland summer
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A Period of Absent-Mindedness
By Harrison Christian
Bogeymen on the Beach
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Police unofficially restricting women’s access to...
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Bogeymen on the Beach
By Janet McAllister
Pride and Fear
Read Time: 11 mins
Ella Grace McPherson Newton on demanding pride from...
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Pride and Fear
By Ella Grace McPherson-Newton
Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century
Read Time: 22 mins
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Literature
Ka Pū Te Ruha, Ka Hao Te Rangatahi Māori Identities in the Twenty-first Century
By Pantograph Punch
A Warning and A Plea
Read Time: 14 mins
Saziah Bashir on Trump's Muslim ban, and our disastrous...
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A Warning and A Plea
By Saziah Bashir
Waitangi Mon Amour
Read Time: 9 mins
Artists and writers share their illuminating, provocative...
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Waitangi Mon Amour
By Pantograph Punch
Blenheimer Rhapsody
Read Time: 28 mins
Mark Mullen describes growing up in the Blenheim of...
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Blenheimer Rhapsody
By Mark Mullen
Body of Evidence: An essay on harassment
Read Time: 12 mins
In this anonymous and disturbing essay, the writer...
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Body of Evidence: An essay on harassment
By Pantograph Punch
Self-Determination and The Struggle: Kyle Powys Whyte on Standing Rock
Read Time: 21 mins
David Hall talks to Citizen Potawatomi Nation philosopher...
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Self-Determination and The Struggle: Kyle Powys Whyte on Standing Rock
By David Hall
The Women’s March: The most conservative protest I’ve been on?
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Tze Ming Mok on fighting for the status quo, child...
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The Women’s March: The most conservative protest I’ve been on?
By Tze Ming Mok
Caught in the thirst trap: White gaze on black bodies
Read Time: 12 mins
Lana Lopesi outlines the politics of sexual fantasies...
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Caught in the thirst trap: White gaze on black bodies
By Lana Lopesi
Mormons, Curses, and Papālangi Visitations: New Zealand's Evolving Kava Culture
Read Time: 13 mins
Harrison Christian joins a kava circle in Hamiton...
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Mormons, Curses, and Papālangi Visitations: New Zealand's Evolving Kava Culture
By Harrison Christian
Hollow Homes and Speculated Spaces
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Melissa Harrison on the changing meaning of 'home'....
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Hollow Homes and Speculated Spaces
By Melissa Harrison
Let Them Eat Cake: On Playing At Poverty
Read Time: 12 mins
Saziah Bashir on solving poverty by pretending to...
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Let Them Eat Cake: On Playing At Poverty
By Saziah Bashir
On forgiveness
Read Time: 15 mins
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On forgiveness
By Doug Dillaman