Day: June 15, 2020

In a major about-face by Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants has come out as gay for Pride Month. In the early 2000s the show heads and the series creator the late Stephen Hillenburg, explicitly said SpongeBob SquarePants was not gay, but asexual. Fast forward almost 20 years and Nickelodeon officially made the reveal Saturday in a tweet […]

New Zealand must be honest about its racist attitudes in order to heal wounds, says Taranaki-based American author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor. “Aotearoa is not a utopia of racial harmony. All places that are active in colonisation are active in white supremacy,” says Taylor, who has been living in New Zealand since 2017 on […]

On June 24, Angie Enoka will become the first Samoan fa’afafine to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy in Media Studies at Massey University. Ms Enoka hopes that her academic success will encourage other fa’afafine to look at education as a career option and hopes more Pacific people take on postgraduate studies. “When you grow up in […]

The senior Queensland Police constable is aiming to raise awareness of the high level of domestic violence in the LGBT+ community by speaking of his own experience. A senior police officer from the Australian state of Queensland has decided to speak out on same-sex domestic violence in an effort to encourage more LGBT survivors to […]