Issue 30, July 2022

Woman NZ

A new magazine with a new voice. Yours.

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Woman
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 Books Edit
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Nā Susanna
Meet Nix Adams, our amazing cover star. If ever there was a poster girl for overcoming adversity, it’s Nix. But we don’t just love her courage, determination and extraordinary resolve, we love her because she’s genuinely funny, kind and has used her
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Te Mātauranga O Matariki
There are so often tears during kauhau (speeches) and wānanga (learning) workshops about Te Reo Māori that I think I’d feel disappointed if one didn’t reach that level of feeling. That may sound exhausting to some people, but to me it’s testament to
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Local Matters
Hungry? Let’s fix that – and do some good while we’re at it. We all want to make positive choices, and now you can enjoy your favourite foods knowing you’re consuming high-quality, local ingredients that contribute to the greater good. Everybody reco
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The NIX effect
With 1.3 million online followers and having won “Personality of the Year” at this year’s New Zealand TV Awards, social media sensation Nicola “Nix” Adams, 34, is the first to admit she’s an anomaly. She’s a former methamphetamine addict and sex work
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Writing WHINA
Twelve years ago, film director Paula Whetu Jones became paralysed from the waist down as a result of a rare illness and has been in a wheelchair since. She sees the irony in someone like her being chosen to co-write and direct a film about Māori pio
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Not One More Acre
The presence of Dame Whina Cooper can be felt as soon as you drive into Ihumātao, the Auckland site of this country’s most recent mass land occupation. Whina, whose life is portrayed in a movie opening in Aotearoa this month, brought national attenti
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Artivist In Action
It was a hectic day for musician, activist and TV host Moana Maniapoto when Woman magazine visited to interview and photograph her. She’d just finished filming an episode of her awardwinning current affairs series, Te Ao with Moana, for Māori Televis
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Threads, Triangles & Traditions
Heidi Brickell (Te Hika o Papauma, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Rongomaiwahine) is a fixture of Tāmaki Makaurau’s arts community. Since completing her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland’s fine arts school, Elam, in 2011,
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Naked Truths
You’d be forgiven for thinking the bare-bottomed mountain trek in the final scenes of the remarkable 2022 comedy feature Nude Tuesday wasn’t prolific writer, director and actor Jackie van Beek’s first taste of public nudity. “I have frequented the od
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Just The Tipple
Well, here we go again: it has been 100 years since the original Roaring ’20s and things are beginning to clear their throat for a good bellow. The parallels between now and those decadent times are obvious. We, too, are surrounded by war, pandemics
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What’s On
ART The WOW Show is always a sensation – a mash-up of art, fashion, theatre, even architecture – and it’s back after a two-year hiatus, so expect nothing less than an explosion of creativity and innovation as Wellington welcomes wearable art back to
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LABOURS of Love
During the 2020 Covid lockdowns, we were told not to worry about our productivity. It was a distressing time and slowing down was okay. However, for four young women, slowing down was also the start of something new. With reduced paid work and abando
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A Spot Of Bother
Acne is consistently one of the most searched skincare concerns online, with the condition unfortunately experienced by women of all ages. Add to this “maskne” – the desperately unwelcome modern affliction where breakouts are caused by wearing a mask
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We Love…
These tablets contain vitamin A to reduce inflammation and normalise cell turnover, zinc to encourage healing, vitamin C and E to support immune function and help produce collagen, and turmeric, a potent antioxidant that also reduces inflammation. Th
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Bite-size Beauties
These delish new bite-size snacks are bursting with gut health, beauty and nutritional boosters. Australian Keira Rumble was diagnosed as prediabetic in her early 20s and had to change how she was living and eating, so she and a team of nutritionists
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Smooth Operator
BabyButtface is a new multi-purpose stick that’ll leave your skin feeling as smooth as a baby’s bottom. This handy balm can be used to remove even the most heavy duty make-up. But the uses don’t stop there – it can double as a hydration stick after m
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Renew And Refresh
Incorporating retinol into your skincare routine is one of the best things you can do for your skin, especially if you’re concerned about the signs of ageing. Jeuneora’s new formulation is a highly concentrated serum that works to reduce the appearan
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Hydrate And Illuminate
This luminous, lightweight product is a clever make-up and skincare hybrid. It’s infused with real white tourmaline crystal – offering increased circulation and skin radiance with a subtle iridescent finish – so it conditions skin and brightens as yo
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I Am Your Tongue
Hey. Bet you’re using me right now. Bet it feels good, huh? Whether you’re telling your friends all about the cute barista, or you’re tasting the barista-made coffee, or you’re way too busy’cos you’re using me, ahem, on said barista… I’m indispensabl
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Over The Rainbow
Serves: 3-4 Preparation Time: 20 Minutes Cooking Time: 55 Minutes An easy and wholesome supper for cold days and hungry people. The grated parsnip is incorporated into the “risotto”, along with shredded kale, to imbue it with sweetness as it bakes. F
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The Stuff Of Life
Vivian Gornick once said, “If a memoir is to achieve literature, it has to have an organising principle, it has to have an idea, it has to have something that will be of value to the disinterested reader.” Do you agree with this and if so, what do yo
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Music To Her Ears
I loved to sit on my own and sing. The section behind us was empty, filled with fennel as tall as we were. Between our house and the section was the volley board, painted the only colour brown that things seemed to be painted then, a mid brown, a bit
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#book Of The Month
by Laurence Fearnley Penguin Random House RRP $36 Forty-five-year-old Roland never felt like he fitted in growing up in Lake Matariki. He spent most of his childhood and teenage years “feeling rejected and telling himself it didn’t matter”, and dream
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Picks Of The Bunch
by Isobel Beech (Allen & Unwin, $32.99) Can a novel be unrelentingly sad, deeply intelligent, and still suffused with an ethereal beauty and goodness? It sounds impossible, yet Isobel Beech’s debut Sunbathing can be described this way. A young woman,
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Dancing With Myself
I’m away to the Otago coast for a month by myself. The most company I will have is our old dog and the occasional seal on the beach. Back in the day, when our kids were small and clamorous, I would yearn to be alone for more than a stolen morning. No
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Signs Of Spring
I am a Jury. Ergo I love deciduous magnolias. Why does one follow the other, you may wonder. My very late father-in-law, Felix Jury, was the creator of such varieties as ‘Vulcan’ and ‘Iolanthe’, among others, and we still have the original plants her
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Bowled Over
• Resene Olive Green• Resene Green Spring• Resene El Paso • Resene Grey Olive• Resene El Paso • Resene Yucca• Resene Conch• Resene Concrete Clear gloss• Resene art brush set• Baking clay• Rolling pin• Craft or butter knife• Woven mat or basket for te
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Our Fair Shares
Women drive the economy. We dominate the purchasing decisions in the market. Every dollar we spend or invest has the opportunity to help shape the kind of world we want to live in. An estimated 80 percent of daily consumer decisions are made by women
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Astro Woman
Gemini Ingress June 21, 2022, at 9.14pm NZT The sun moves into the cardinal water sign of Cancer, marking the winter solstice and the southern hemisphere’s shortest day. Ruled by the beautiful, ever-changing moon, those born under the influence of 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
The arrested development of Miri Matthewson is the subject of Back to Life, a brilliantly dark British comedy. It’s co-written and created by Daisy Haggard, who also plays Miri, a 30-something released from jail after serving 18 years for murder. The
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We Are Mothers
A champion of wāhine Māori and more than 50 years a member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, including serving as President, Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts was a teacher, kapa haka advocate, and Ngāi Tahu community leader. Or, in the words of Moana Mani
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Beats ‘N’ Brushes
Musical beats, paint and brushes, and a local spin on an international phenomenon – what do you get when you mix them? An awesome party but also a new family-owned business whose success is defying the expectations of its three founders. Like many ot
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Turning The Tables
I don’t like the word pivot, but I suppose that’s exactly what we’ve done.” Joelle Talbot is reflecting on a fraught two years for anyone who works in a business like she does – premised around taking Kiwi travellers on unique trips so they can have
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Busy As Bee
Bee Keng Koh is a woman with a lot on her plate – pun thoroughly intended. What started as a hobby with her husband, New Zealand Herald diversity journalist Lincoln Tan, has developed into one of Auckland’s fastest growing and most exciting food ente
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Going Gourmet
Winter isn’t the time of year Maggie Gray usually looks forward to, but this year the co-founder of the Food Truck Collective and the phenomenally popular Auckland Fried Chicken Festival is counting down the days until July – and Elemental AKL 2022.
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Living The Dream
Rock oysters (tio repe), flounder (pātiki), snapper (tāmure), mullet (kanae raukura) smoked in mānuka and honey, seafood chowder, fry bread, hāngā vegetables, salads and desserts, including fresh fruit salad, pavlova and steamed pudding – if you were
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WHAT, WHERE & WHEN
July 14-16 and 21-23 Hunua Room, Aotea Centre July 31, Farina July 14-31 Auckland Town Hall July 30 Shed 10, Queens Wharf July 21-23 Mystery venue, Ponsonby July 16 Hansik, Freemans Bay July 23 Xiaolongkan, Ellerslie July 28 Nem House July 15-16 and
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About Elemental Akl…
Elemental AKL returns this July for a sensational season of curated experiences celebrating the unique culture, cuisine and creativity of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Behind the scenes, you’ll find a host of wāhine working to ensure this 18-day smorgasb
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Beware The Health INFLUENCER
Can you remember when there was no such thing as a selfie? When I was in my 20s, if I wanted a picture of myself, I asked someone else to take it. And then I had to wait days or weeks to see it. It’s hard to imagine now if you’re of a generation who
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Game Changers
The beauty space is vast and ever-evolving, with an untold number of products from every category launched each week and a swathe of hot new trends emerging every season. And while all these come and go, there are a few life-changing superstars and i

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