Earlier this month, after 14 years of keeping arts publishing pumping in Aotearoa, we announced that The Pantograph Punch was going on hiatus. The outpouring of love we have received since our ...

Turncoat by Tīhema Baker (Raukawa au ki te Tonga, Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira) is a satirical sci-fi novel set in a universe where humans have been colonised by aliens – aliens who ...

Early Activist Roots An exploration of the history of Moana Fresh cannot ignore its activist roots. In response to the Black Lives Matter Movement and the enduring impact of violence on racialised ...

Day 3: “This is Israel’s 9/11,” the Israeli Ambassador to the UN says. The unapologetic anti-Arab sentiment they peddle to accompany this is invoking a lot of post-9/11 memories in us Arabs. I am 12 ...

I would catch an ant, drop it onto the web woven in the corner of the stairs, and watch: how the spider, first startled, hurried to the struggling ant, wrapping it up in its silky cocoon, then sucking ...

Water, the body, cultural survival and life itself are inherent within Māori beliefs and traditions. This ideology is reflected in the recent development of rivers being granted legal personhood in ...

Life is a mirage of moments – which the Queer cxnty cast and crew of Cxnt Vol. 1 understand and execute with absolute precision. I use the word mirage because the otherworldly elusivity of Queerness ...

‘Whetūrangitia’ is a verb used in whaikōrero to describe the transformation of loved ones who have passed away – Ki a rātau kua whetūrangitia, haere, haere, haere – which speaks of those who have left ...

Going out to a club night where pulling a risky look is expected, harassment isn’t tolerated, a genuinely diverse DJ line-up is booked and playing sets of high-energy genre-bending bangers is kinda ...

The platform itself was much better suited to poetry than Instagram is, largely because of the ability to re-share posts to your own followers. Popular poems would garner hundreds of thousands of ...

That painting was Emily Karaka’s Coming Through from 1983. And I think it did what it was supposed to do that day. It breathed its own form, took its own shape, and came alive. Its mauri so strong it ...

Dawn Raids was written by Sāmoan playwright Oscar Kightley in 1997. Oscar was a child during the heart of the Dawn Raids era, having recently been sent to Aotearoa from Sāmoa to live with relatives in ...