in 2022 i wrote a series for webworm about NZ's biggest megachurch, arise. webworm exposed bullying, abuse & the coverup of rape. it led to the leaders john & gillian cameron resigning, & much of arise folding. well: they've emerged footloose & fancy free in australia: www.webworm.co/johnbrentcam...

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

get it in my veins

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

Fellow biologists, this is a poem that discovers the tonal beauty of the word "ribosome"

stop what you're doing and let Amber Glenn take you to church #USPrevagenChamps #figureskating

Huge congratulations to our Pushcart Prize 2026 nominees! 🎉 We’re cheering loudly and wishing you all the luck. www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/

Check out the December issue! Featuring guests Tony Guo, Helen Rickerby, Ruby Porter and John Fenton, along with the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize winner, Jilly O'Brien. There's also an art essay by Samuel Te Kani, and so much more! We hope you love it 🩵 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-115/

We're so excited to be bringing you Guest Fiction from Ruby Porter! Her brand new story, 'Eye Contact' explores love, loss, optometrists and Christmas shopping, and will feature in the December issue (coming very soon!). #takahēmagazine #DecemberIssue #GuestFiction #RubyPorter 🇳🇿📚

Welcome to the takahē whānau, John Fenton! John's essay, 'Lost Libraries—Biblioclasm: a deadly sin' will feature in the December issue, coming very soon! As ever, the entire issue will be free to read online, for everyone, everywhere 🖤

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The problem with that Whamageddon thing is that Last Christmas is a stone cold banger and trying to avoid it proves that you don't truly understand the meaning of the season, to celebrate our Lord and Savior, Saint George Michael.

Legendary British musician Brian Eno, who helped organize & produce the Together for Palestine benefit concert, performs the poem “Oh Rascal Children of Gaza, ” written by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma #Wembley

❤️Join us this Saturday 13th September 2025 to March the Bridge! 🖤Meet at Onepoto Domain for a 9:30am start 🤍Or join at the end point, Victoria Park 💚Demand we Sanction Israel Now! ❤️Organised by Aotearoa for Palestine

Australian writers propose a modest pay cut for the VC of Melbourne Uni could be used to fund Meanjin

Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Here's me in Guardian Australia on the total debacle with Meanjin. www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Calling New Zealand English teachers. As part of my PhD research, I'm conducting a survey on teacher perspectives on the topics of Shakespeare and of the inclusion of mātauranga Māori. Please complete this survey if you are an English teacher massey.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Biography by Kelly Ana Morey, published today on Reading Room. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/06/s...

Haere ra Kelly Ana. Moemoe tonu ake

Excited to share my new story in takahē and read the other contributions. Weekend reading sorted! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka

Out now! The 114th issue of takahē is free online for everyone to enjoy. www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/ This issue is a little slimmer, but just as carefully curated with new words and art to challenge, stimulate and engross. We hope you love it. Let us know your favourites! 🖤

Excited to share my new story with you all, in the new issue of takahē, coming soon!

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena

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so tell me again what the problem with rainbow storytime is

Just a simple man but I reckon if you are looking at policy differences between Aus and NZ that make wages higher in Australia, then labour and employment laws should get a higher place on the list than their current ranking of 'shut up, don't look at that, omg'

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

You cannot address the starvation in Gaza without addressing the fact that Israel also destroyed all agriculture and fishing as part of this engineered famine. It's not just cutting off food aid, it is destroying all internal capability to feed people.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior was 40 years ago today; it helped define our country, and its place in the world. ⁠This all-star cover of Mutton Birds' classic ‘Anchor Me’ was made to mark the 20th anniversary. audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...

Rainbow Warrior returns to Tamaki Makaurau Auckland for the 40th anniversary of the bombing.

Congratulations to this year's winners and to all the writers featured in the Volume 17 anthology. Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8 @zoemeager.bsky.social @morrislau78.bsky.social #writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions

This is part of why politicians on the right shouted so loudly against making Matariki a public holiday... because it's not just fascism that spreads, recognition of indigenous traditions does too. You love to see it.

the anthologies with Maaori titles are getting out of control like are u not embarrassed? not even half ur contributors are Maaori??? & ur pulling out te aka????

What if you had to let go of the things you love, one at a time, until you had nothing left? Could you do it? What if you didn’t have a choice? 📚 @zoemeager.bsky.social's story joins our next anthology. Learn more and meet all our shortlisted authors: bit.ly/4dZRhIB

thespinoff.co.nz/books/17-06-... 'we don’t necessarily need them, because AI can do all that stuff. But ethically, taking on young people and training them is going to become like a moral and ethical thing for businesses.' Boutique humanity. Artisanal justice.

IT IS OF GREAT MORAL URGENCY THAT WE SEND THE SPIRIT OF TASMANIA TO GAZA

I would suggest eating them but it sounds like they're all skin and bones these days.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Streaming with Captions

600 days in the genocide

New Zealand has 14 billionaires and 5 billionaire families, with a collective wealth of nearly $90 billion Yet 1/3rd of the country can't afford FUCKING FOOD. Why do y'all keep voting centrists parties?

My short story "Catch" – about fish farms and gay neanderthals – is free to read in the latest issue of @takahemagazine.bsky.social 🎣👬 www.takahe.org.nz/catch/ #pukapuka #shortstories

Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser: “In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”

as others have pointed out, NYT never saw it as reflecting on US Zionism when an Illinois man stabbed a 6-year-old Palestinian kid, or when a Florida man mistook two Israelis for Palestinians and shot at them, or when a Palestinian student was murdered in Vermont