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Hey, This Election Fucking Sucks!
It’s been an “oily, queasy and deeply disheartening” few months. And yet, there is still hope. Emma Maguire challenges and encourages uneasy voters to act in these final days.
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The Phantasmagoria of Avatar
In this marathon essay delving into the world of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, Eamonn Tee explores the biology of Pandora. On the journey to make it make sense, he manages to include NCEA Level 2, Hannah Montana, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, The Humongous Fungus and a whole host of other references.
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Rating This Year’s Political Party Slogans, Because I’m too Depressed by this Election to Focus on Anything Else
Hannah Marshall queues up their hot takes on a selection of political slogans for the 2023 New Zealand General Election. Who will come out on top (no, not TOP)?
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Submissions open for FRAMED!
bad apple has another event headed your way, this time for National Poetry Day 2023! Submissions are officially open and we will be publishing one poem from EVERYONE who submits!
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In Defense of Gay Villainy
“Don’t you just wanna go apeshit?” Many games provide players with a baked-in morality systems. Martin asks players to throw those virtual social obligations in the garbage can. Bad is Sexy.
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To Be Queer in the Aotearoa Summer
“Rather than rural spaces being intrinsically homophobic, I think that there are inaccurate assumptions of queer folk present”. Inspired by the lived experience of queer people, Mik writes about how looking queer impacts experience of place in regional New Zealand.
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Moonlighting
A piece by Dani Yourukova in which a dungeon-crawling, adventure game is also secretly about the relationship between value and time, the evils of capitalism, and the financial precarity that comes with being a working artist.
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The Long History of Trans Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand
The protests held to oppose notorious anti-trans activist Posie Parker’s speaking tour are the latest in a long and proud history of trans activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Historian Will Hansen takes a look back at this past, tracking trans communities’ records of defiance as generations of trans people have worked together to demand change.
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Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab
Eight plays, four directors and 14 actors. The Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab Showcase overflowed with talent and potential. Tate Fountain reports on the day’s events.
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~spooky vampire film history~
Why are vampires so sexy and why are they in all my TV shows, web series and films? Emma takes a look at a brief history of these fanged folk on screen.
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Soul Sister — A Live Script Reading
This one’s for the queer Filipino-Kiwis out there just trying to see themselves! Aotearoa theatre may be on the up-and-up with LGBTQ+ stories but that intersectionality and representation is vital. That’s what’s so exciting about Caryl Loria Illana’s ‘Soul Sister’. Ari Banog went to check out the live script reading at BATS Theatre for us.
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