Issue 9, 2018
Issue 09 Volume 81: Tight Ass Content
[ssba]Features

A Tight Ass Yogi
As 2018 rolled around, I settled on three New Year’s resolutions. To get fit, be more sane, and less broke. I concocted a plan to combine all these goals in one: by signing up to free trial memberships for each yoga studio in Central Wellington. I was excited at the thought of becoming a leaner, […]
by Sandy Cheeks

Our Dying Right: Perspectives on End of Life Choice
In 2015, Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales made news by petitioning for the right to a physician-assisted death. She was 41 years of age, with an inoperable brain tumor, and several months left to live. Shortly before she passed away, Lecretia’s husband, Matt Vickers, relayed to his wife that the High Court had ruled against them. Lecretia […]
by Faun Rice

Halls: Lonely but Not Alone
There are probably some people in this world who breeze through the end of high school and into university; people who seamlessly transition from living at home to sharing a home with hundreds of strangers. I’m going to hazard a guess and say that these people make up, at most, about 3% of your hall population. […]

Manning Up: Personal Reflections of Masculinity in New Zealand
CW: discussion of suicide It’s a winter’s night in Auckland, and three men are talking about their feelings in a spa. The air is full of words I never thought I’d hear. “I’m scared of failure.” “I’m unhappy with being myself.” “I don’t think what I do is good enough.” As the quiet conversation continued, […]

A Tight Ass Yogi
As 2018 rolled around, I settled on three New Year’s resolutions. To get fit, be more sane, and less broke. I concocted a plan to combine all these goals in one: by signing up to free trial memberships for each yoga studio in Central Wellington. I was excited at the thought of becoming a leaner, […]
by Sandy Cheeks

Our Dying Right: Perspectives on End of Life Choice
In 2015, Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales made news by petitioning for the right to a physician-assisted death. She was 41 years of age, with an inoperable brain tumor, and several months left to live. Shortly before she passed away, Lecretia’s husband, Matt Vickers, relayed to his wife that the High Court had ruled against them. Lecretia […]
by Faun Rice

Halls: Lonely but Not Alone
There are probably some people in this world who breeze through the end of high school and into university; people who seamlessly transition from living at home to sharing a home with hundreds of strangers. I’m going to hazard a guess and say that these people make up, at most, about 3% of your hall population. […]

Manning Up: Personal Reflections of Masculinity in New Zealand
CW: discussion of suicide It’s a winter’s night in Auckland, and three men are talking about their feelings in a spa. The air is full of words I never thought I’d hear. “I’m scared of failure.” “I’m unhappy with being myself.” “I don’t think what I do is good enough.” As the quiet conversation continued, […]