Issue 29, June 2022

Woman NZ

A new magazine with a new voice. Yours.

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Editor Susanna Andrew Art Director Bronwyn MacKenzie Designers Anna Revell, Matt Dykzeul Chief Sub-editor Louise Adams Deputy Sub-editor Alison Mudford Beauty Editor Amy Houlihan Fashion Editor Anastasia Doniants Digital Artist Andy Kirkup Louise Ada
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Editor’s Letter
Going out. Are we ready yet? For all that we want to be, there is still the hesitancy, like dating again after a broken heart. I’ll never regard the common cold as common ever again, but going out to events, to shows, to theatre and to concerts is st
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Ka Haere Ki Waho
For three weeks in May, Auckland’s CBD will become the canvas for a trail of more than 50 installations and artworks in laneways, squares, streets, trees and even hanging overhead. Starting at dusk on May 18, Auckland Walks guides will lead free City
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Mānawatia a Matariki!
As we enjoy our first public holiday in recognition of Matariki this month, I’m filled with gratitude for those who have ensured the survival of Matariki practices and the mātauranga (knowledge) around its meanings. This time last year, I wrote an in
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STAR Attraction
Matariki offers a surprising example of how popular movements gather momentum, which in turn is why I’m perversely hopeful when it comes to collective action on climate change. When I was growing up as a Māori child in the ’70s and ’80s in suburban C
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True colours
It’s easy to spot the home of recently retired Labour MP and former Silver Fern Louisa Wall. In a row of houses on a narrow street in the Auckland suburb of Manurewa, her home is the one with the giant rainbow flag, a symbol for the LGBTIQA+ communit
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Making The Matariki Connection
On June 24, Aotearoa will celebrate Matariki with a public holiday for the first time – our first new public holiday since Waitangi Day was introduced as an official holiday in 1974. Although often discussed, new public holidays in New Zealand are a
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The Woman Who Blew The Whistle On Watergate
Most people know the story of the Watergate scandal: the botched break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters 50 years ago this June, the White House cover-up and President Richard Nixon’s resignation. But who remembers the scandal’s
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MASTERY Of The MIND
Why would you learn meditation for a marathon average of 10 hours a day for 10 days? And sit continuously cross-legged while observing “Noble Silence” of the body, speech, and mind? Segregated from men while abiding by a strict code of discipline, li
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Casting for RECOVERY A SALVE for THE SOUL
My fishing guide’s eyes are glistening, his huge grin almost breaking into laughter as he enthuses: “Wasn’t that awesome? You did it!” Truth be known, catching this handsome brown trout was a team effort, but he graciously offers me a triumphant “hig
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I Am Your Eyes
Well, hi, nice to see you! We’re used to being the sparkling centre of attention – but today we’re going to turn in on ourselves. Not literally (wink). That’s anatomically impossible, just as it’s impossible to lose contact lenses behind us. But sinc
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Stepping Up
'I’m just going outside and may be some time.” These were the heroic last words of Captain Lawrence Oates in Antarctica in 1912, and they’re something I’ve been saying every day for a month as I don sneakers and headphones and go for a walk. Not just
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Inner Beauty
The “beauty from the inside out” industry is booming. More Kiwi women than ever are complementing and enhancing their topical skincare regimes with ingestible supplements – designed to strengthen skin, hair and nails, as well as boost gut health, whi
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Go Gorgeous
Time to dust off the make-up pots, palettes and primers and bring your beauty A-game again. After a long stint in hibernation, what better time to celebrate and get glammed up for a night out? Take your look to the next level and complement your outf
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Man Up
We women have a lot going on. Whatever age we are, the life of a woman, more often than not, involves juggling many things: family; work; community; relationships; friends. We are very often looking after others, whether it’s dependent children or ag
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Making A Move
For someone who lives their life in sport, I have a love-hate relationship with exercise. The problem is, I have a love-love relationship with food and wine and my output too often doesn’t match my input. I know exercise is good and I know I feel gre
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Winter Warmers
Prep time: 25 mins Cook time: 55 mins Serves 6-8 Sam, Addy’s sister-in-law, brought this salad along for our lunch and it was a standout. It’s everything a “bring a plate” salad should be – happy to sit around at room temperature, substantial enough
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#foodnews
Creating a quick, easy and healthy dinner or a warm, comforting drink to relax with after a long day has never been easier with Just Fresh. Add a little or a lot without all the messy prep or the hassle of sourcing the real deal. These easy-to-use po
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Ockham Winners
by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers) by Joanna Preston (Otago University Press) by Claire Regnault (Te Papa Press) by Vincent O’Malley (Bridget Williams Books) by Rebecca K. Reilly (Te Herenga Waka University Press) by Nicole Titihuia Hawkins (We Are B
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Picks Of The Bunch
by Leila Mottley (Bloomsbury, $32.99) You’ll want to remember this name: Leila Mottley. She’s an exciting new voice from Oakland, California, and her debut novel, Nightcrawling, mixes glorious, rhythmic language with urgent ideas such as racism, gene
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Just Me & The Page
Coco Solid has had an impressive career as a successful musician, screenwriter, poet, and visual artist. But the one creative endeavour she’s always wanted to try is writing a book. Now, at 41, the Māori and Samoan artist has finally fulfilled that d
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Book Extract
Q HAS A STACK of new bed linen to drop off to her uncle. Flattened packets sit under her arm resembling classified files. I look like I’m en route to represent someone in court. This is notable considering this household has a habit of making Q defen
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#book Of The Month
by Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus (Vintage – Penguin) RRP $35 In a rented studio in a backyard in Baltimore, Mercy Garrett paints portraits. Not of people, but of houses, with one specific element – a grandfather clock that has initials carved into one c
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Walk this WAY
Scan this code in the Spotify app to listen to Woman June 2022 – Stepping Out. I’ve been DJing this column for six months and, evidently, I’m taking requests now. “I need a walking playlist – do one!” – this directive just in from a woman in her 50s
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Flowercode
Midway through my teenage years in the 1990s, I went through an obsessive Victorian phase. My pictures of Kylie and black and white photos of bogan-chic couples on motorbikes were replaced with Pre-Raphaelite prints of the Lady of Shalott and poor, m
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A Visitor To Auckland
I’ve always wondered whether Londoners visit Covent Garden or ride the open-air bus or walk the endless pilgrimage to Buckingham Palace. We see tourists in our own cities (well, used to): they’re the ones with the daypack and a map in their hands. Bu
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Fulfilling The Fantasy
Picture this: a glorious beach, comfortable deckchairs, unlimited cocktails, never-ending blue skies, and golden sunlight streaming across the contented faces of a grey-haired hetero couple in matching casual wear. Welcome to the Google image search
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Astro Woman
Gemini Ingress May 21, 2022, at 1.23pm NZT The sun moves into the mutable Air sign Gemini. Those born under the influence of the Twins are adaptable, curious and a tad restless. Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury, the Roman God of communication an
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Don’t Leave me Hanging …
Shortland Street’s Christmas cliff-hangers have become a New Zealand television tradition. Designed to bring the audience back after the summer break, Christmas cliff-hanger weeks are carefully planned so several key storylines come to a climax in th
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#mindgames
Use the clues to fill in the spaces in the numbered hexagons. Each answer runs clockwise but can start anywhere in the shape. Where hexagons touch, they have the same letter. We’ve given you a word to start with. The letters in the white hexagon reve
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#reviews
Middle-aged women naked in a well-lit concrete changing shed. Not a shed, a beautifully designed municipal structure. Their skin a variety of shades and textures bathed in warm Australian light. Their breasts a variety of sizes, shapes and elasticiti
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From CLEMENCY
Outside my window, pollen is falling, a gold dust across leaf and stem, In your mountains, the window for climbing is a handful of weeks at the end of spring. The buzzing sound in your ears is caused by altitude sickness. I’ve written you up to the p
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My Mother, The Rogue
Growing up with a mum who defied societal norms is something you look back on with pride. But at the time it was mortifying. My mum, Frances Cherry (née Birchfield), had herself grown up with the same feeling. Her parents, Connie and Birchie, were ac
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Colour Your World
• Resene’s new We Speak Beach Colorwood wash hues in: Resene Shade Resene Breathe Easy Resene Becalm Resene Bask Resene Shore Thing Resene Rising Tide • Testpot in Resene Yucca • Resene testpot brushes and art brush • Pieces of pine wood in various t

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