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Welcome to the Salient blog! Here you'll find every piece of writing we've published this year. Browse by category, or just go for a scroll.
Chris Kraus isn't Done With Wellington
WILL IRVINE in conversation with CHRIS KRAUS Over the summer, I had the rare pleasure of being able to interview Chris Kraus. Most people...
Salient Mag
Mar 1214 min read
We Found Love (Community) in a Hopeless Place (Law School)
Ethan Rogacion (he/him) Ahh, the Old Government Building. Home of a bizarre exhibition about the history of the public service, an...
Salient Mag
Mar 116 min read
Hunger Pangs: Trying To Find Food on Campus
Will Irvine (he/him) It’s become a truism at this point that developing an in-person study routine is crucial to ensuring academic...
Salient Mag
Mar 113 min read
The State of the (Student) Union
By Emma Maguire (they/them) You might know the Student Union Building from its greatest hits; excellent pizza from the Hunter Lounge,...
Salient Mag
Mar 112 min read
Mansions and Slums at the Heart of Kelburn Campus
By Maya Field and Georgia Wearing If you ever needed a visual metaphor for the prosperity gap in Aotearoa, or even globally, you can...
Salient Mag
Mar 113 min read
Post-Code Switching
Jia Sharma (she/her) I once had to rush from a Tort Law lecture about false imprisonment at Pipitea to a film screening of The Princess...
Salient Mag
Mar 115 min read
Anti-Fascist Reflections on the Labour Struggle
By the Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition. The battle for workers’ rights is a fundamentally anti-fascist kaupapa. In their struggle for...
Salient Mag
Mar 33 min read
Student Communism: Who the hell cares?
Kennedy Dailey (She/Her) At the pub quiz, on a particularly intoxicated Tuesday, I met a guy wearing a t-shirt of Che Guevara’s portrait...
Salient Mag
Mar 36 min read
Tales from the retirement village
Words by Maya Field (she/her) When I told people that I worked in a retirement village, specifically a bartender in a retirement village,...
Salient Mag
Mar 35 min read
The Living Wage
Improving workers’ lives under a hostile government William Bell-Purchas (he/him) Over the last year, the National–Act–New Zealand First...
Salient Mag
Mar 34 min read
Carrying Home on Their Backs: The Price Of Migration
SAAD AAMIR (He/Him) The myth of Atlas has fascinated people since antiquity— a man condemned to bear the crushing weight of the world for...
Salient Mag
Mar 33 min read
Behind The Decks
Jia Sharma (she/her) O-Week is often described as one of the cornerstones of the first-year experience. But while the money management...
Salient Mag
Feb 246 min read
The Accessibility Atlas - Advice for Navigating Uni and Disability
By Hope Cotton (she/her) Starting university can be intimidating for us all. When you add the extra challenges of navigating an...
Salient Mag
Feb 243 min read
OPINION: DEATH to the Harvard Salient
WILL IRVINE (He/Him) Note: for legal purposes, everything in this article is alleged. The campus that these buffoons inhabit It has...
Salient Mag
Feb 242 min read
THE TEA ON POSTGRAD
Everyone wants to know: ‘what are you going to do after you graduate?’
Abby Saywell
Oct 8, 202410 min read
The Salacious Side To Wikipedia
present to you the best gossip channel, the agony aunt of Encyclopedias! Our very own humble Wikipedia.
Ryan Cleland
Oct 7, 20243 min read
You’re not Crazy: An Anorexic's Philosophical Reflections on Injustice and Eating Disorder
The process of female socialisation can be fucking traumatising, and the philosophers agree.
Meredith Ross-James
Sep 30, 20245 min read
A Diabetic’s Guide to Partying
This advice has come from my experiences of festivals, gigs & parties but could be applied to anything: one epic night, or a multi-day fest
Cassia Percival-Day
Sep 30, 20245 min read
City of Amputees: How Israel Weaponises Disability against Gaza
By permanently disabling massive portions of society, Israel places a long-term strain on Gaza’s already destroyed healthcare system.
Will Irvine
Sep 30, 20243 min read
PCOS: The Invisible Chronic Illness No One Sees
Coming to terms with having a chronic illness changed my whole outlook on life, and made me more empathetic towards others.
Elyshia Bedwell
Sep 30, 20245 min read
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