Alright, that's it. I'm finalising a few things in the backend then logging out.

'The power of poetry is synonymous with speaking truth to power, which is often at odds with who gets to police what is said, and how' - the Poet Laureate Chris Tse has edited Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023, and you can read all about it here, then check out his edition over Easter

bit emotional about this one. it feels appropriate the Panto should leave us like a ship, to maybe one day return.

In our last commissioned article before we close the doors, Mya Morrison-Middleton follows a sail across oceans, learns the many scents of harakeke, and reconnects with something once-lost. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/te-ra-...

Matariki Williams breaks down Tīhema Baker's novel Turncoat – an exploration of New Zealand under the occupation of colonisers who only pay lip service to respecting the Treaty. Also they're aliens. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/state-...

Tunmise Adebowale explores the works of Kate Fitzharris at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and finds a connection between Kate's sculptures and the Yoruba Ere Ibeji. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/lookin...

Stacey Kokaua covers the life and career of Pip Laufiso, her place in the Ōtepoti activist community, and how and why we mindfully build places we call home. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/living...

What can artists do in the face of atrocity? Matariki Williams explores the way the arts have been used in solidarity and protest. Fundraiser patches for Palestine in header image made by Jordan Davey-Emms (Pākehā) www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/art-is...

. Late Summer: Waikanae   People like watching the dusk. A father likes saying you must, you mustn’t, you must.   A dog runs along the sunset beach. It isn’t chasing anything. .

Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa has a career spanning five decades. Her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua' ran between September 2023 and January 2024. The exhibit is confrontational, powerful, and critical. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/toka-t...

Gutted to hear this news. My students read an essay from @pantographpunch.bsky.social today! We talked about the politics of citation and how the loss of publications like this means it is that much harder for people to share their work and for people to access their work in Aotearoa.

This is a rough thing to announce. It sucks, it just sucks, I have no other words for it.

Really sad to hear this.

Dear readers, From March 28th, 2024, we will be going on hiatus. The team will be putting out a more thorough piece about our thoughts and feelings at the end of the month, but for now we’d love to celebrate these last weeks with you. Ka kite The Pantograph Punch x

It feels impossible at times to imagine futures free of colonial and carceral violence, but we must – we must plan and build a better future. With tribute to Fa’anānā Efeso Collins. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/what-s...

As part of our Carving Space issue, Tom Denize cruises through time, through timeless/lost/joyful/secret queer space. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/waterl...

Briar Pomana explores Wharenui Harikoa, a transformational space of joy, play, softness, craft, and love. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/wharen...

Intimacy co-ordinators in Aotearoa New Zealand are overwhelmingly Pākehā, and their work can often reinforce Anglocentric ideas of the body. Emele Ugavule asks: how can we work towards a less-blinkered view of body sovereignty? www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/flesh-...

What makes a scene? What breaks it? Musician and poet Eliana Gray was in Ōtepoti in the 2010s, in amongst the city's DIY arts and music scene, and takes us on a journey through the people and places that make it happen. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/fillin...

Water gives life, but it must be cared for too. What happens when it isn’t? How do we respond as kaitiaki? As part of our Carving Space issue, Elise Sadlier flows through time, considering the past of a great awa, and its future too. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/swimmi...

Reminder if you're in the AKL that I'm reading at Same Same But Different on Friday evening, and the piece I'll be doing otherwise isn't out until October. www.eventfinda.co.nz/2024/opening...

Late last year, an IDF soldier raised a rainbow flag in a bombed-out Gazan street. Zina Abu Ali and Makanaka Tuwea reflect on how IDF pinkwashing tries to drive a wedge between marginalised communities, and how we cannot let it succeed. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/rainbo...

I wrote about disability, quiet hours, werewolves and liminality for @pantographpunch.bsky.social: www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/quiet-...

As part of our Carving Space issue, author @andiwrites.bsky.social reflects on disability and space, how disabled folks are treated like monsters on one hand and expendable afterthoughts on the other, and what real change towards accessibility can look like. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/quiet-...

Not so very long ago (just before your time), the internet was a place of utopian promise. What went wrong? How can we do better? As part of our Carving Space issue, @sacha.bsky.social explores online spaces large and small and asks what it means to make them our own.

Fantastic piece. Worth a careful read.

Emma Hislop reflects on the exhibit Te Hau Whakatonu (on now at Govett Brewster) and asks: who is art for? www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/te-hau...

Really interesting reflections about important history, and some current issues arising from it. From @pantographpunch.bsky.social pantograph-punch.com/posts/ghost-... #disability #CriptheLit

CW for discussion of sanism and ableism but this piece is *amazing*, I'm really proud of our Carving Space authors, this is imo the best stuff we've put out while I've been on staff.

Sometimes we carve space with our fingernails, hanging on in hostile and haunted spaces. Amelia Jacobson walks the halls of Unitec and reflects on its history, on ableism in the medical system, and on the people it tried to turn into ghosts. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/ghost-...

I've been with the Pantograph for around a year now, and this is my favourite piece we've put out. It's an extraordinary piece of writing.

Jude Saint doesn't want to be understood/wants to be understood, to be digestible/to stick in the throat, to move down the sidewalks like a snail, leaving signs of life behind them. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/a-conf...

Plus! I have a brand new website, with animation by @jonathanking.bsky.social on Max Thompson’s gorgeous cover illustration. rachael-king.com

"I look at the plains of the Great South Road where I live and where Waikato-Tainui people were driven out of their lands in 1863; and I picture my own family as they were forced to leave their hometown in Palestine in 1948." A Palestinian at Tūrangawaewae www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/01/22/o...

. WINGATUI   Sit in the car with the headlights off. Look out there now where the yellow moon floats silks across the birdcage. You might have touched that sky you lost. You might have split that azure violin in two. .

Today at the Pantograph we're talking to comedian and screenwriter Jess Karamjeet about walking the boards, TEACHING MIME(!), founding the Pan-Asian Comedy School Aotearoa, and very much not doing dentistry. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/paving...

Taylor, Kathryn Gale, Alison Greenaway and Desna Whaanga-Schollum reflect on a recent noho marae wānanga, and the kaupapa that created a space that operates in aroha. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/aroha-...

Today we’re sitting down with contributor and Pal @itsmekhadro.bsky.social to talk art, essays, and why the Pantograph is the people’s media. The Pantograph Punch has no corporate sponsors, which lets us publish articles you won’t get anywhere else. Support us here: pantograph-punch.com/pals

Excitement... Coming end January.

We are BACK! The Pantograph crew have returned from holiday, dumped the sand out of our shoes, and we've got some great writing in the pipeline.

Rounding off 2023 with a phenomenal thank you to over 160 people (or something incredulous) who have joined us as Pals this year by donating to our platform, as a one-off gift to us or as a monthly contribution. We can't thank you enough. We're off for now – kia pai ngā hararei, see you in 2024 bb!

Hey! Do you appreciate the work The Pantograph Punch does and the space we occupy in the arts and media landscape?? Consider becoming a Pal and paying it forward! pantograph-punch.com/pals

Today at the Pantograph, Millie Riddell pays a visit to our 'Strange Friends' at The Dowse Art Museum: an exploration of familiar strangers and the vast inner worlds of people we barely know. Strange Friends is on until January 28th. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/review...

Today at the Pantograph, we’re publishing an open letter by Jews for Ceasefire concerning the ongoing violence against the Palestinian people, which you can sign. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/open-l...

@tameeolivefern.bsky.social returns with another vital piece on the fate of Palestine, how a ceasefire is a start, but how there is more work to be done for this apartheid to end. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/ceasef...

For Carving Space #4, the ever-poignant Makanaka Tuwe reflects on her travels in the US and Jamaica, on being visible and invisible, and the performances that take us from one to the other. www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/the-se...