Faith Wilson was so touched reading Filemu zine she had a tagi. So she spoke with the creators, a Pacific couple shining light on their experiences of love.

Love is the Balm: A Kōrero with Lofa and Sua of Filemu Zine

Jennifer Onyeiwu writes about Black to the Future, a zine from Black Creatives Aotearoa that celebrates Black joy and excellence.

Celebrating Black Creatives Aotearoa’s Afro-Kiwi Zine: Black to the Future

Guest editor of the 呼吸//Breathe essay series, Helen Yeung 希琳 writes on their own experience of survivorship, and how relocating to Guåhan has allowed them to breathe a little easier. 

Relearning How to Breathe: Notes On Being A 'Bad' Survivor 

Nina Mingya Powles is a poet from Wellington, currently living in London. Her recent poetry publications include Luminescent (2017) and field notes on a downpour (2018) and several poetry zines. She is the editor of Bitter Melon 苦瓜 and was co-winner of this year's Landfall Essay Competition. She is working on a collection of essays about water.

Nina Mingya Powles

Forever the beloved babies of subcultures from science-fiction to punk, zines are the ultimate DIY publications. All you need to make one is paper and something to draw with.

As a nod to the annual Wellington Zinefest and zines in general, Te-Whanganui-a-Tara born writer and publisher Nina Mingya Powles tells the story of how she got into zinemaking through the medium itself.

A zine about zines: Nina Mingya Powles makes a zine about her love of the artform.

Pantograph Punch

The Pantograph Punch team reflect on 14 years of continuous publishing as a stalwart arts media journal (are we allowed to say this about ourselves?), and our choice to go on hiatus.

Long Live Pantograph Punch, Forever

Mya Morrison-Middleton

Te Rā, the only remaining Māori sail, has temporarily returned home. Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Te Rā, asking questions of its origins and future, while highlighting the work of those who are actively reviving Māori sails.

Opening Portals with Our Hands: On Te Rā, the Māori Sail

Matariki Williams

What if Pākehā were subjected to the same colonisation as Māori? Matariki Williams travels into the sci-fi world of 'Turncoat' - where an all-too-familiar narrative of colonisation plays out amongst aliens and humans.

A State of Disconnection: The Human Alien Relationship of Turncoat

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Tunmise Adebowale

Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Looking at Things as a Whole

Stacey Kokaua 

Pip Laufiso was born and raised in Ōtepoti and her contributions to Māori and Pacific arts in this city have spanned decades. Stacey Kokaua reflects on how Pip influences a community of creatives in a city not often recognised for a brown arts culture.

Pip Laufiso: Living and Breathing Pacific Arts in the Deep South 

From the Springbok Tour, to the Vietnam War, to the occupation of Palestine, Matariki Williams delves into how the arts have been, and can be, used to express solidarity and protest.

Art is a Salve

Mya Morrison-Middleton reflects on the career of renowned Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, and her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua', which showed at Season Aotearoa in Auckland and Christchurch's Centre of Contemporary Art.

He Toka Tū Moana a Robyn Kahukiwa

Gabriella Brayne

Litia Tuiburelevu

Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabella Ieremia and Hugo Wagner-Hiliau. Their research calls for abolition and an ending to carceral capitalism, envisioning emancipatory past futures for Tangata o le Moana and the globe.

What Shall We Build on the Ashes of a Nightmare?

Tom Denize

Is cruising a form of time travel, a doorway into a pocket of Queer time, or something else entirely? Tom Denize unpacks the heat and magnetism of cruising spots.

Waterlilies Sucking Mud

Briar Pomana

Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori play in our current realities and beyond.

Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of

Emele Ugavule

Is the demand for intimacy co-ordinators, choreographers and directors just colonialism rebranding itself to undermine our sense of collective morale and personhood? In asking for collective responsibility in storytelling, Emele Ugavule pulls forward Indigenous conceptualisations of body sovereignty from an iTaukei worldview. 

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