Category: Opinion

Feb 02
Embracing Pride, Resilience & Good Health: A Status-Neutral Approach to HIV

Tom Naves from Body Positive highlights the importance of sexual health, especially during Pride season in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In February, we celebrate our resilience and pride in belonging to Aotearoa’s colourful and diverse rainbow community. This Pride Month, we want to ensure we are as festive as we are conscious of our sexual health. […]

Feb 02
What could a Chloe Swarbrick led Green Party look like?

Chloe Swarbrick, the openly bisexual Auckland Central MP, is the front-runner to become the Green Party’s new co-leader. Craig Young examines what the youngest co-leader of the Greens could mean for the party’s success.  At the last general election, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand became the third largest party in New Zealand politics. […]

Jan 26
Opinion: Teaching Sexuality and Gender Identity In Our Schools

Craig Young delves into the government’s removal of the Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum from our schools. In order to critically debate the Relationships and Sexuality Education curriculum, it is necessary to delve into its origins and the evidence behind its introduction. There is a reason for this. If there is indeed corroborative evidence about […]

Jan 22
Opinion: Don’t Mess With The Human Rights Commission

Craig Young says The ACT Party needs to abandon its current ruminations about the abolition of the Human Rights Commission. Even if it isn’t abolished, nor should its neutrality be compromised. When it came to the Commission, established in 1977 under the Muldoon administration, its abilities and scope were circumscribed. It took sixteen years to […]

Jan 09
You’re Not Single! You’ve Just Let Grindr Become Your Boyfriend

Dick Richards realises that dating apps have become the ex he keeps going back to. So how do you break that cycle? After years and years of dating and still never finding the right guy, you ask yourself ‘What is wrong with me?” It’s not news that the gay dating world is harder for us […]

Jan 09
Opinion: Why is James Wallace Free?

What does James Wallace’s early release say about the legal system’s view of male sexual assault survivors? Asks Michael Stevens. James Wallace, the sex offender and disgraced former knight, is being released from prison early after a Parole Board hearing. He had earlier applied for parole in September. but it appears they weren’t satisfied that […]

Jan 05
Lesbian In The Wild: Queer? In This Economy?!

Jessie Lewthwaite gives her top money-saving tips for women who love women (WLW).  Recently, when I was out at a queer event, I made sure to take a glass of wine with a nice, heavy pour. I grabbed one much the same for my friend and went back to where she was standing. I was […]

Dec 10
What Does The New Government Mean For Trans Wellbeing

Elijah Luke Michel returns to YOUR ex to voice key concerns from the trans community about what the new government means for their wellbeing. I voted National once, when I turned 18. I had no idea about politics or political parties, but a family member insisted I voted and that I voted blue. Once I […]