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03/07/2024

Is somebody gonna match our freak? We’re looking for our cover model for moaning, mouthwatering, Massive. DM us if you’re keen 🤭💋

27/06/2024

Today, the Green Party endorsed a letter calling for the Government to condemn Israel and call for an end to gęnocíde, impose sanctions on Israel, and recognise Palestinian statehood.

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick called out PM Christopher Luxon to the crowd, “He cannot ignore or pretend that these demands do not exist, and that these demands do not represent the overwhelming majority of decent human beings who make up Aotearoa New Zealand who he wants to claim to represent.”

Massey University students from Wellington and Palmerston North attended the protest with signs calling out the institution.

24/06/2024

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-walaa-and-her-family-evacuate-from-gaza?lang=en_AU&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

Massey student Lina is fundraising for her good friend Walaa to evacuate Gaza City when the border opens. Walaa is 24-years-old and has recently graduated from medicine but has been unable to further her studies due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. She has a family of 10, including five siblings all who have been denied the opportunity to continue their studies, including her youngest sister, Sama, who is 13.

Hit the link on our story to donate. The costs to evacuate to Rafah are high, so any help for Walaa and her family is appreciated.

19/06/2024

This comes as last week student protest art was covered in the Massey Wellington Fine Arts block. The students have come back with new messages on the walls.

A Massey spokesperson said, “The Foundation is the largest trust or entity that the university controls and it actively invests its endowed funds in private equity, listed stocks, bonds, and cash in New Zealand and abroad.”

“Income from the Foundation’s investments supports student scholarships, academic positions and research at Massey.”

“All three of the Foundation’s fund managers are signatories to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment.”

17/06/2024

Massive is hiring two new staff members!

Come and work for your student mag and get paid living wage

To apply, email your CV and writing portfolio to [email protected]
Applications close on the 15th of July

15/06/2024

: the pro-Palestine protest art has been found covered up today and the Massey Fine Arts building is still closed

A student involved said Fine Arts students have been told they are allowed to paint in the space.

This comes after security closed the building yesterday for “maintenance”.

13/06/2024

A two-page letter was left in the Fine Arts block entrance way, addressed to the Bachelor of Fine Arts staff. This comes as Massey University is yet to make a stance on Israel’s war on Gaza.

Swipe to read the letter

13/06/2024

Pro-Palestine protest art was found covering the walls of the three story stairwell in the Massey Wellington Fine Arts block this morning. Red slime was also poured down the stairs.

Security told Massive that the building has been closed for “maintenance” and it is unclear weather the art will be covered up.

More to come

31/05/2024

Finance minister Nicola Willis announced yesterday that $729 million will be spent on restoring interest deductibility for residential rental property.

When it comes to tax relief, if you work a minimum wage part-time job of 20 hours a week, you will receive $4.31 fortnightly, according to the governments tax calculator.

(This is with a estimated weekly earning of $463 before tax, and an annual earning of $24,076 before tax)

31/05/2024

With budget day yesterday, Te Pāti Māori issued a Declaration of Political Independence, Te Ngākau o Te Iwi Māori. This starts the process of creating a Māori Parliament.

Thousands gathered across the motu for the National Māori Action Day, protesting the government’s policies and budget cuts affecting Māori.

With the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, the government will save $35.5 million.

Funding of $40 million for new supply and capability of Māori housing has been cut.

$20 million in funding for Rangatahi transitional housing has been returned to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.

29/05/2024

Myths and folklore, carvings in artwork, and documented accounts all attest that early Māori understood the spectrum that is s*xuality and gender identity. But with the introduction and domination of Pākehā influences, this understanding was lost

🔗Link in bio or on page 10 to read more

29/05/2024

National student protest, tags covered on the Wellington campus, the stinky Palmy pond, vacating Albany buildings, and distance students accused of AI use in your news round up this week

🔗Link in bio or on pages 4 to 7 to read more

29/05/2024

A study by Autrostraddle was conducted and revealed that through 1976 to 2016, 11% of US TV shows featured le***an or bis*xual female characters, and of those, 31% ended up dead and only 10% received happy endings.

🔗 Link in bio or on page 8

28/05/2024

“Have you ever caught yourself stuck between a c**k and a hard place? Are you recovering from a nasty case of man-ingitis?” Artist and writer shares her experience dating as a trans woman

A huge thank you to Willow for her beautiful centrefold in this week’s q***r issue

🔗Link in bio or on page 12 to read more

27/05/2024

What happens when you buy a strap-on with a partner and then you break up? Bella interviews their ex to investigate…

P.S. Does anyone think a used s*x toy marketplace for sapphics is a good business idea? Serious inquiries only, thanks :)

🔗 Link in bio or on page 18 to read more

26/05/2024

Feeling fruity? Get strapped in for the q***r issue 🌈🍒🍏🥝🍓🫐🌟

This week .newman took over as guest editor — no straights allowed in the Massive office! Tal’s poem on the back tells the story of our cover this week. It’s about how with a chosen family, simple is made beautiful 🥣

A trans woman’s guide to dating, the history of Takatāpui, a q***r author’s perspective, who gets the strap after a break-up, Heartbreak High, a grad’s poem, news, puzzles, columns and more featured in print and online now

23/05/2024

students across the country, including in Manawatū and Wellington stood up against genocide today and demanded cut ties with Israel and denounce anti-semitism.

Massey University says it has not taken a single position, as is “appropriate”.

Photos:

🔗 Link in bio to read Massive’s full run down

22/05/2024

Massey refuses to make a stance on the war on Palestine, major buildings in Auckland vacated, and a new distance newsletter in your news round up this week

🔗Link in bio or on pages 4 to 6 to read more

22/05/2024

“Fake news” isn’t just a catchphrase or an online phenomenon. Fake news erases our history, minimizes the sufferings of those who came before us, and even loses lives

🔗Link in bio or on page 18 to read more

21/05/2024

The posters were taken down around Massey Wellington upon Massive’s inquiry, and Te Tira Ahu Pae has been apologetic.

Editor went undercover to find out more.

🔗 Link in bio or on page 6-7 to read more

20/05/2024

Our beautiful centrefold this week is by Ar-Em Bañas for the Immigrant and Refugee issue 🦋

Pick up a mag on campus to secure the bag

19/05/2024

Our first guest edited issue of 2024... the Immigrant and Refugee issue ✴️

Re-appropriating Filipino colonial photographs, a Vietnamese short story, food that feels like home, fake news and the Philippines election, being an immigrant and indigenous, Falun Gong infiltrates Massey Wellington, news, columns, puzzles, horoscopes, and more featured in print and online now

A huge thank you to our guest editor Jas Sabrine for this beautiful cover photo 🧡

17/05/2024

Misinformation and flakiness from Te Tira Ahu Pae at a recent forum, updates on Massey's Singapore campus, Nursings students fed up, and NZ On Air funding for a Massey Film student in your news section this week

Link in bio or on pages 3 to 5

15/05/2024

: Massey University shuts down major buildings on Auckland campus

While some suspect that Massey’s Auckland campus will not exist in the future, Shelley Turner said, “We are committed to retaining our three unique campuses”.

The university has made its aim clear to reduce its gross floor area by 50% across campuses. This comes as Massey had a budget deficit of around 40 million dollars last year and is projected to have a deficit of 30 million dollars this year.

The document was emailed to Massey Albany students at 2:31pm today.

14/05/2024

Congratulations to our writing competition winners, Flynn O’Hallahan and Ashley Harnett!

A huge thanks to our judges .newman who thoroughly enjoyed reading through everyone’s pieces

Read our winners touching pieces on pages 8 to 11 of the fiction side of this weeks issue, or hit the link in bio

12/05/2024

We’re feeling rather torn between fact or fiction this week... 🛸🧙🏽‍♂️🌏🧜🏽‍♀️🌟

On one side we have billionaire bunker conspiracies, a Massey ghost, Palmy’s tunnels, and all your Massey news
But on the other side we have our Massive Masterpiece writing comp winners, a dragon conqueror, and warnings of the patupaiarehe

Read it all online or on stands now

10/05/2024

From painstakingly crafting a set of music that represents who we are, to allowing Spotify’s AI to reshuffle our daylist every few hours according to data its collected on us, or else playing the same 10 songs on repeat when shuffling a 300-song playlist - The art of playlist building is dying 💿

🔗Link in bio or on page 12 to read more

09/05/2024

In a not-so-quiet office tucked away in the corner of Manawatū’s beloved , Jordan Kupe and Ce Goacher from the band Khaki Department, are engaged in an intellectual discussion. The topics of which include furries, banh mi, David Seymour, and Nickelback.

🔗Link in bio or on page 18 to read more

08/05/2024

Sitting down to chat with Sleeping Village in Massey’s recording studio, the band has constant, infectious grins plastered on their faces. We are told tales of their van breaking down in the middle of nowhere on their first South Island tour. We learn that if any of them play a Red Hot Chilli Peppers song, they have to do 20 push ups.

The six person band is set to release their third album, Three Mallard Ducks, this year. 🦆🦆🦆

📸 .kiss

🔗Link in Massive’s bio or on page 8 of the mag to read more

06/05/2024

Māori Massey students are invited to collaborate with Massive for our upcoming Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori Issue.

We are looking for art, creative writing, journalism, poetry, personal essays, photography and anything else that Māori students are looking to share. This issue is a celebration of Māori culture, so we want as many voices as possible.

DM us here or email your pitches to our Te Ao Māori Editor at [email protected]

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24 issues done and dusted! Cheers to a great year of student media, all the best for exams and the summer holidays 😎 Check out our final online issue through the link below 👇 https://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/