A personal reflection on dating in New Zealand, exploring unconventional preferences, self-worth, mental health challenges, and critiques of modern dating apps, with a strong emphasis on authenticity, self-love, and queer experiences.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
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