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Rest in Power: Evening Books, 2022–2025
grace cowley eulogises the Ōtepoti institution that was Evening Books and thanks Frances Pavletich for her contribution to the community.
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The Healing Power of Homosex on Screen
Erin Ramsay sings the praises of the light that the gay hockey show has brought to our dark and gloomy world.
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in our universe
ella sage respons to bram casey’s ‘in every other universe’ through this love letter essay to friendship and queer camaraderie.
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“Compelling work that breaks new ground” — Pip Adam launches Hoods Landing
We share Pip Adam’s launch speech for Laura Vincent’s ‘Hoods Landing’, held at Unity Books Wellington on 31 October 2025.
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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.
Category: essay
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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