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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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Becoming an AUP New Poet
What’s it like to become of of AUP’s new poets? Frequent bad apple contributor harold talks to their experience joining this star-studded cohort of local poets. Plus, one of their poems featured in AUP New Poets 9.
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Putting On the Shirt Again: A Personal Account of the March for Trans Rights
For the Auckland Pride March for Trans Rights Sophie Jackson fishes through their drawers — there has to be a a shirt for the occasion. With ten years of protest at their back there are too many to choose from. For how many years will they have to keep pulling out shirts and taking to…
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The Tale of Two Christmases
Christmas Day can be a hell of an ordeal, and some of us have to go through it twice. In this essay, Kiran warps through his tumultuous memories of Christmas from childhood to adulthood, recounting the tight-rope walk between civility and chaos in celebrating the day with two very different families.
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shapeshifting
An amorphous body seeking a form to settle into and call home. Shapeshifting through the past, Rhi speaks the the girl they were and the patchwork being they have become.
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Divorced Adult Gay Seeks Date for Christmas
In the first of our Summer Series, Grace Shelley reflects on Christmases past, unpacks critical hits to the psyche made from across the breakfast table and ponders the future.
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Trixie and Katya Live: A night of kookiness, costumes, and Klarma.
After two long years with dates pushed out and pushed out again Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova finally arrived in Pōneke. Kat wasn’t going to miss the chance to finally see them live.
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essa + ECHIDNA: In Which a Friend Finally Gives Back
Michelle Rahurahu writes to essa may ranapiri and ECHIDNA. A personal essay to a poet, founding whaea, artist and friend.
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A Trans Reviews Ricky Gervais’s Super Nature
Fuck Ricky Gervais, fuck Dave Chappelle, fuck TERFs and fuck transphobes. Fuck right off!!!
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an ode to matterings
Sometimes, it takes a community to create and in doing so, a community is created.
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coming home for dinner
Around an Asian migrant dinner table, dietary restrictions, chronic illness and queerness become thorny subjects to avoid.
Category: essay
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