Issue 31, August 2022

Woman NZ

A new magazine with a new voice. Yours.

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Woman
Editor Susanna Andrew Designers Bronwyn MacKenzie, Tori Siviter, Louise Adams, Anna Revell, Imogen Greenfield, Helen Cisowski Chief Sub-editor Louise Adams Deputy Sub-editor Alison Mudford Fashion Editor Anastastia Doniants Beauty Editor Amy Houlihan
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Editor’s Letter
‘Forgive me for being grumpy,” begins Dr Renee Laing in this month’s terrific I Am Your Body column, written from the point of view of the uterus, “I have a long history of being misunderstood.” Renee was writing in a spirit of rage after a certain S
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Not Given lightly
Best Columnist Magazine Media Awards 2021 In one of those awhi (hugs) that you treasure with your tamariki, I was revelling in my pōtiki (youngest child) still being happy with long hugs, then she touched my earring and said, “He niho makō tēnei? Is
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Soul WOMAN
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon and I am booked in for a Zoom call with Erica Lloyd to talk about her life and work. A bundle of energy, she recently married filmmaker Naashon Zalk, and together they are raising two young children. Erica also has three
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Stay connected
1. Communication: Zoom, WhatsApp, Messenger, FaceTime, et cetera (especially when I’m way up in North Hokianga for mobile coverage reasons); and because wrangling time zones is a constant mission from here, Boomerang and the very simple, exactly what
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Difficult labour
‘Midwifery’s been around forever and will continue to be, but it’s tiring having to forever go up against the ‘proverbial’ man,” says Mandy*, who loves the idea of being in a profession that’s deeply rooted in feminism. The profession was first regul
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I Am Your uterus
I figure it’s my turn to speak. I do have a right to speak for myself, right? Apparently not everyone thinks so. Forgive me for being grumpy: I have a long history of being misunderstood. By the Greeks, for instance. To them, I was the hystera, and H
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Full COLOUR
What did you study and do before Insta fame? I started out as a Mac operator at the NZ Herald, which involved laying out all the adverts for the Herald and the regional papers. While there, I illustrated my first children’s book, A Dog Like That!, by
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The New Business Venture Of SHARON HUNTER
‘We’re in the goodbye business, not the grief business,” says Sharon Hunter, who is looking at me over Zoom, still unnervingly resembling the 22-year-old who launched PC Direct to enormous success 33 years ago. (Yep, it was that long ago… I counted).
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Loving The Language
Chelsea Winstanley has gone back to school, dedicating this year to a total-immersion course in te reo Māori, so she can reclaim the precious language that was lost to her. “There’s something intrinsic about reclaiming your language. It’s my birthrig
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I Tried A ‘Lady Tracker’ Device For Two Weeks; Here’s What Happened.
Upfront disclaimer: I am not a systematised person. Until recently, I couldn’t make a plan, let alone execute one. Taking my father’s philosophical advice way too literally, I thought the future didn’t exist, and that there was only the now. As a res
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Cross dressing
Sheer coincidence finds me meeting artist Kerrie Hughes at Bowen Galleries in the Cuba Quarter, Wellington. Kerrie and I go back a long way, having first met in the early ’80s. Anyone who was around at that time will remember the fashion cult that wa
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END Of A CHAPTER
For almost a decade, Anne O’Brien has been responsible for the artistic programming and financial, operational, and production leadership of this country’s largest festival of books and ideas, garnering audiences of more than 83,000 people and presen
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The upside Down World Of Li-Ming Hu
At her latest exhibition in Auckland, Li-Ming Hu welcomes visitors into a theatrical set modelled after her home studio in New York City, filled with real debris and fake objects remade in gaudy pink and purple faux fur. For the opening performance,
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Get packed
Cheer up, it’s not the end of the world. Or is it? Honestly, it seems like apocalyptic events these days need to form an orderly queue. Pestilence, famine, war, rising interest rates, Wordle… it’s all bad, so I’m reinventing myself as a Doomsday Prep
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Off The Shelf
We took our fashion inspo this month from Funny Face and went for Audrey Hepburn’s nerdy girl look (shot at Lamplight Books, Auckland). Tucked-in shirts and loafers. Romance in the stacks. It’s true that I found love in a bookstore once. Sorry for th
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BRAVE The ELEMENTS
Ahhh, winter – lush wool coats, chic boots and classy après ski. Also, flaming, ruddy cheeks, brittle, bone-dry locks and limbs so scaly they belong in a terrarium. The drastic drop in humidity and temperature, combined with the artificial heat blast
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Get The Perfect Base
Nothing sets up the perfect make-up look better than a flawless base. It creates the ideal canvas for a power pout or bold eye, and while many of us pared our routines right back over lockdown, there’s still a time and place for great foundation that
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#beautynews
Brooke Lean, the founder of New Zealand fine fragrance brand The Virtue has solved the problem for customers who can’t decide which of the decadent scents is most “them”. The new Parfum Sampler Set can be created by selecting five of the 2ml sprays,
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Woman NZ3 min readDiet & Nutrition
From Smoothies To Smart Drinks, are Health Drinks Worth The Hype?
Scoot past the drinks section in the supermarket, café or dairy these days and you’ll see a lot more in there than just soft drinks, juice and water. There’s been an explosion in health-focused drinks in recent years. Overseas industry reports say th
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BAN The Bottle?
I’m sure I am not the only one who has recently been thinking a lot about alcohol, or rather their consumption of it. I wouldn’t class myself as a heavy drinker, but nor am I just a social one… I’d say I’m a regular drinker. I think nothing of at lea
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All In The Family
Serves: 6 Preparation Time: 2 Hours Cooking Time: 2 Hours Tahchin literally means to arrange at the bottom, which is the whole point of this dish. The perfect Tahchin should be a beautiful, golden, crunchy cake of saffrony rice goodness. For the best
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#foodnews
Fix & Fogg’s Cookie Butter matches the flavour and crunch of a Belgian-style speculoos cookie. Unlike most cookie butters, this one is non-GMO, palm oil-free and vegan-friendly, so it’s better for your pantry – and the planet. It’s also the first nut
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Drive South
Over the last four weeks I have driven roughly 4000km down and back up State Highway 1, from Tāmaki Makaurau to Bluff and back, taking in roads both loved and unknown. I had to get some writing done and after lockdowns in close quarters with a loud h
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Naming Rights The Magical World Of Graci Kim
When you’re pitching a book you’re really selling two stories. There’s the novel itself, your precious baby. And then there’s you. Are you interesting? Got some yarns? Most importantly: how are we going to boil you down into a blurb? This is how Disn
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Picks Of The Bunch
by Colleen Maria Lenihan (Huia Publishers, RRP $25) This short story collection moves between Japan and New Zealand, and involves strippers, idols, schoolgirls, lovers, daughters, mothers – stories that shift tone like a mood ring. It’s not a neat ch
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THE JOY of GOING BUSH
I think about when I used to go tramping as a child. Being in the mountains was one of the few times I could escape the expectations of good girlhood. When climbing, I could be assertive and pick out my own route. It was okay to be hungry because I’d
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#book Of The Month
By Lisa Jewell Century – Penguin Random House RRP $37 On Cheyne Walk, overlooking the Thames, stands a house – a house with a history, a story, and many, many secrets. The story of that house and what happened there is the focus of Lisa Jewell’s 2019
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Leaving Home
I lived in Te Whanganui-a-Tara from January 30, 1993 (aka birth) until May 2, 2022. The longest I’d been away, before now, was four weeks. But now I’ve been away for… seven or eight weeks. And counting. This is because I have moved to Australia. I le
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Awaken Your Inner HEDGE WITCH
I messaged my oldest friend, Tryphena, the other night. She recently moved home after spending a couple of years being an eco-warrior for DOC on Rēkohu-Chatham Islands. “How is life back in the Big Smoke?” I asked, which is a dorky joke because she l
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What Kind Of conversation Are You Having With Yourself?
With inflation and interest rates on the rise, it is really hard for many people to make ends meet. I am seeing in lots of social media comments and posts the feeling of failure and not being “good” with money becoming more and more prevalent. I’ve o
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Flower power
• Paper, pencil and scissors• 5mm-thick balsa wood• Craft knife from Resene• Resene testpot brushes• Old vases for painting • Resene Non-Skid Deck & Path• Resene Gulf Stream• Resene Opal• Resene Glorious • Resene Parsley• Resene Caper• Resene Boogie
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Astro Woman
Leo Ingress July 23, 2022, at 8.06am NZT The sun moves into the fixed fire sign Leo – the fifth sign of the tropical zodiac. Those born under the influence of the lion are courageous, proud, and generous of spirit. Ruled by the mighty sun, Leos are n
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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 re
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#reviews
LOOT Streaming on Apple TV from June 24 Combine the brilliant creative minds behind 30 Rock, The Good Place and Parks and Recreation with the comedy genius of lead actress Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids, Big Mouth, Saturday Night Live) and you get gold or
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The Gift
In first year I liked a band called DIANA, capitalised like that and every time I introduced them to someone, I had to type‘diana band’ on YouTube. Sometimes, it’s like that. When I was seven, I had a crush on a boy whose full namewas longer than the
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From Glen Innes, With Love
Before she married and had seven children, Elizabeth O’Flaherty was a traveller. She raised all her children in Glen Innes, Tāmaki Makaurau, and taught them to know that the world was a larger place. From Scotland, France, New York and Brunei, they Z

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