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On Learning to Edit and Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’
Self-proclaimed Sally Rooney acolyte Josiah Morgan reads ‘Intermezzo’ while redrafting his own novel, complicating his relationship with the Irish author.
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To You, My Whānau, My Mokopuna
In a new addition to the future ANCESTORS kaupapa, Felix Stribling writes of feeling out of place as a Māori American and as a queer person.
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A Short History of Asian New Zealand Theatre — A Response
In an attempt to distil some of the expansiveness that is Nathan Joe’s new theatre work ‘A Short History of Asian New Zealand Theatre’, Sherry Zhang pens this self-reflective response essay.
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Whakapapa Portraits
The wharenui at Rongopai Marae is lined with paintings of a whakapapa full of life and colour. For ‘future ANCESTORS’, Sinead Overbye considers what it means to one day join those walls as tīpuna.
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Te Whāriki Aroha
In this personal and vulnerable essay for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley reflects on whānau, whakapapa, and takatāpuitanga. Carrying these thoughts with her, she writes to future mokopuna with love in her heart.
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SOMETHING OF YOU
The world is so vast, so small and filled with the knowledge of those before us. From the moana to the whetū, in this long-form piece Liam Jacobson travels through these places to find the voices calling us home.
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A Reflection on Hector
In the lead up to the staging of her second play, ‘Hector’, Cadence Chung reflects on the process, the inspiration and creating art with their friends.
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The Ocean Dome
In Miyazaki, Japan, 1993, the Ocean Dome’s retractable roof slid open and the sun bathed the artificial landscape. For Billie Angus, the Ocean Dome still stands as an enduring presence on the periphery—their feet buried in its sand.
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Local Immortals
Gay blackmail, bloodshed, and… art? Kate Wilkinson-Smith’s bad apple debut is a ghost story, not a love story.
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Trying to Know ‘Only the Stars Know Where I’ve Been’
‘Only the Stars Know Where I’ve Been’ is a being newly born into the world. Jane Smolira writes of trying to know the work and asks choreographer Jake Starrs about his thoughts and hopes for the season.
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Late-Night Thoughts on the Intimacies of Queer Friendship
Late-night thoughts on the intimacies of queer friendship uncovered by Georgie Llewellyn through making ‘Cowboy Dreaming’ with their two wonderful friends.
Category: essay
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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