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Everything I Know About (Platonic) Love

Posted 7:16pm Sunday 6th October 2024 by Ellie Bennett

I came to university thinking I’d find The One. I was obsessed with the idea that I’d lock eyes with someone across the lecture theatre and be swept into this great, all-consuming romance; that I’d leave here after three years with not only a degree, but a soulmate. That’s Read more...

Homo-geneous

Posted 9:27am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Monty O’Rielly

I don’t even let Georgie get a word out. “It happened again.” They blink, trying to catch up with what I said. “What happened again?” “It. It happened again.” Georgie sighs, “You really have to be more clear.” “She had been fucking Read more...

The Official Dunner Lover Test

Posted 8:31am Sunday 6th October 2024 by Nina Brown

Find out where you rate on the scale from loveless hermit to hopeless romantic. In the pursuit of a crush or during a courtship, have you ever… Used dating apps? Deleted dating apps for them? Stalked their mum's Facebook for pictures of them? Gone through their tagged Read more...

Opinion: She’s Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl(friend), She Has ADHD

Posted 11:16am Saturday 5th October 2024 by Jodie Evans

The manic pixie dream girl doesn’t do small talk, only enigmatic discussions about the universe and its infinite possibilities. She stargazes from abandoned rooftops, sings out loud in the supermarket, and writes poetry on bathroom stalls. Her love language is dancing barefoot in the rain. She Read more...

More Gum Than a Wrigley’s Factory: Southern Sounds Reviewed

Posted 5:38pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Hanna Varrs

Start to finish, baby. Critic Te Ārohi set off to review Southern Sounds from 2pm to 10pm – the full ride. This review was collated from a series of voice memos, videos, photos, and interviews with the few punters we convinced to speak to us.  “Buckle up Dunners,” Read more...

Will It Frisbee: A Critic Te Ārohi Experiment

Posted 4:38pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Sam Smith-Soppet

Abstract Ever found yourself zoning out staring at an object, wondering how far you could throw it? Yeah, that. Welcome to Critic Does Sport: Frisbee Edition.  Introduction We assembled the Uni’s best and brightest (your bona fide ranga reporter and our only friend who can throw Read more...

Run Club Tinder

Posted 4:34pm Saturday 28th September 2024 by Jodie Evans

If your Instagram feed is full of Lulu-clad twenty-somethings dashing around Dunedin’s streets at the crack of fucking dawn, you’re not the only one. Run clubs are cropping up everywhere. Hailed by loyalists as an energising route to meeting others in the running community, there are now Read more...

Flat Fungi: Peziza? Do you mean pizza?

Posted 8:22pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Imogen Harris

A second-year 6-man Dundas flat has made the alarming discovery of a large rubbery mushroom sprouting from their carpet. What is it? Is it delicious or poisonous? Friend or foe? And what does it mean for the state of their flat? Critic Te Ārohi consults a Botany student to find Read more...

The Great Annual Critic Bar Review

Posted 8:18pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by Nina Brown

Critic Te Ārohi once again pitted local bars against each other in our annual review. We chose sixteen heavy-hitters and put them to a vote in four rounds of polls on Critic’s Instagram story – democracy at its finest. After a nail-biting semi-final between last year’s champ Read more...

OUSA Student Support: Asking for a Friend

Posted 8:15pm Sunday 22nd September 2024 by OUSA Student Support

Student life isn’t always easy. For OUSA Mental Health and Well-being Week, Student Support answers your questions with advice on everything from how to deal with loneliness to giving a woman an orgasm.  You can find OUSA Student Support at 262 Leith Walk behind the purple door for Read more...

Ngā Wai-hono-i-te-pō and the Kīngitanga Movement

Posted 4:26am Monday 16th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Shockwaves reverberated through the motu on Friday, August 30th, as Aotearoa learned of the passing of Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatou Te Wherowhero VII, the Māori King. Less than a week later, the Kīngitanga named its new leader: Te Arikinui Kuīni Ngā Read more...

The Plastics: “So if you’re Māori, why are you white?”

Posted 4:06am Monday 16th September 2024 by Jack Ruddenklau

White Māori. Fake Māori. Plastic Māori. If you’re Māori, chances are you’ve heard these labels thrown around at some point – whether it’s a poke at your pale skin, your lack of fluency in te reo Māori, or even an aversion to kaimoana. You may have Read more...

Opinion: What the Fuck Happens Post Panic Masters?

Posted 5:20pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

For the first 24 years of my life, school was the centre of my universe. First it was primary, then settling (somewhat) into high school, working hard to get into uni, and being set free upon Dunedin as a fresh-faced 18-year-old. Well, as free as St Marg’s allowed anyway. My entire life had Read more...

New Zealand Young Writers Fest: Nau Mai, Haere Mai

Posted 5:16pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Jamiema Lorimer

Young writers from across Aotearoa, of all writing forms and backgrounds, are coming together in Ōtepoti this weekend for the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. With accessibility at the core of the festival’s kaupapa, all events are free to attend. These events showcase talent and Read more...

Ethical Gossiping: A guide to keeping it clean and not too mean

Posted 4:57pm Saturday 7th September 2024 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Gossip gets a bad rap. It’s often seen as hurtful, harmful and unnecessary. And sure, sometimes a simple “Did you hear…” turns a flatmate into your new campus opp or sends a relationship to its early grave. But not all gossip was created equal and there’s a right and Read more...

Queer Eye for the Gym (Non)Guy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Gym

Posted 7:30pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

The gym used to fucking terrify me as a gender non-conforming AFAB (assigned female at birth) and proudly masc lesbian. The weights room is every aspect of heteronormative, patriarchal society funnelled into one space: sweaty men, an open space where you can be perceived from every angle, and even Read more...

Opinion: Just Call Me a Slur

Posted 7:04pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Monty O’Rielly

Content warning: This article discusses queerphobia, including slur calling, microaggressions, and misgendering. If you’re not in a headspace to read this, that’s fine! Read some of the other great articles this week, we understand :) Just about every queer person will have this Read more...

What Queer Stereotype Are You?

Posted 6:32pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Gryffin Blockley

Grab your carabiners and flex those limp wrists! In honour of the Queer Issue, Critic Te Ārohi can look through its crystal ball and determine which mish-mash of gay stereotypes you are.  For each question you’ll get a stereotype. Put it together at the end to get your unique Read more...

The Rise and Revitalization of Gay Pop, and why it matters so much

Posted 6:21pm Sunday 25th August 2024 by Madeline O’Leary

Chappell Roan, lesbian icon and pop’s newest darling, said in a recent The Jimmy Fallon show appearance that the inspiration behind her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (coincidentally the inspiration of our cover) was that “I just wanted to make something I could Read more...

Opinion: In Defence of BookTok

Posted 5:45pm Saturday 17th August 2024 by Ellie Bennett

As an English major, I am entirely qualified to be the type of person who shits on other people for what they choose to read; to be the type of person who sees BookTok as encouraging ‘the wrong kind of reading’. But I don’t. My decision to major in English stemmed from a love of Read more...