…all it takes for Nathan Joe to raze, ruminate, and shakily reconcile. The three acts, three poetic works, each focus on Joe’s complex feelings and experiences in relation to his position, both physical and social, in this world. Each are painfully relatable—Joe withholds nothing from us. With biting honesty, the tensions between his queer and Chinese-New Zealand identity, his Christchurch…
She’s a Killer, a dystopian climate thriller, explores a subject matter that gains new meaning when read underneath a hot, ozone puncturing sun. In the book, thirty-something Alice, a highly intelligent and highly unmotivated university administrator, is apathetically waiting out the end of the world in near-apocalyptic Wellington (with her imaginary friend, Simp). In worsening climate chaos, the country has…
The world of pop culture was shaken to its core earlier this year, with the reformation of iconic boy band, The Jonas Brothers. Following the release of Sucker,and a few hours of Twittering, I found myself experiencing a major identity crisis. Was Joe always this hot? Am I no longer a Nick girl?. I wonder what did really happen to…
…Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary, but when he spoke, it was with precision and mana. Joe Hawke Hawke formed the Orakei Māori Action Committee, taking direct action to stop the development of high-income housing on Ngāti Whātua land. Hawke led the occupation at Takaparawhau / Bastion Point. The land had been confiscated for public works. Joe Hawke took on the might of…
