Category: People
We chat with Mika – activist, entertainer, community worker and fashionista – after he confirmed that he is The Opportunities Party candidate for the Auckland Central Electorate. What have you been up to since we had you on our September ‘16 cover? NYC and Los Angeles film markets, a fashion week here and there. Aroha […]
Christchurch singer-songwriter Theia, (real name Em-Haley Walker), made her debut in 2015 and has been on the fast track to success ever since. She stopped in to our express office for a catch up! How does it feel to be such a young artist but doing so well in the music industry? It’s amazing. I […]
Waiting for someone else to get the job done has never been part of Willie Jackson’s style. Already a union rep by the time he was 18, the former leader of Mana Motuhake and renowned broadcaster, Willie Jackson is still committed to providing a voice for those who need it, and for going into battle […]
In VICELAND’s new series Twiz & Tuck, we tag along as two best friends snake their way from New York to California. Along the route, Twiz, who is gender fluid, and Tuck, a trans man who is soon to be married, stop in the cities that have shaped them, as well as some towns they’ve never seen. They visit family and drop in on former […]
express talks to prominent LGBT+ figure and transgender personality, Mary Haddock-Staniland, to find out what she’s been up to, as well as her thoughts regarding Countdown’s new transgender policy that was just released last month. What have you been up to lately? I am currently a director for a small (but growing) PR company, I […]
We sat down with Liam – celebrity cosplayer, writer and mental health advocate – ahead of the release of his debut book, A Wave To Ride. Firstly, where did the name ‘Miscellaneous’ come from? My last name was ‘Martin’ but I always felt foreign from the rest of my family – kinda like a black […]
Michael Parmenter has been a significant player in the New Zealand dance scene for over three decades, creating some of the most challenging and exciting theatrical works ever presented. Parmenter’s name is synonymous with bold and innovative contemporary dance in New Zealand. His first major production was Between Two Fires (1983), a portrait of the […]
Nick Fager is a LGBT+ psychotherapist practicing in New York plus the coordinator for LGBT+ services at the Kull Initiative for Psychotherapy (KIP) in Manhattan’s upper west side. He also runs a support group for gay men struggling with dating app addictions called Grindr’ed Down, a KIP-based therapy group specifically tailored to gay men seeking intimacy beyond apps and […]