“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

ok pls stop saying ur “in the middle of nowhere” if ur describing somewhere unfamiliar/out of te big cities. ur on Māori land !! and that’s the center of someone’s universe !

Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...

Race studies is some of the most disrespected scholarship in the academy. Yet, as Stuart Hall said, “I am convinced that no intellectual worth his or her salt… can afford to turn dispassionate eyes away from the problems of race and ethnicity that beset our world.”

Fuck Bali! Roasted one of my friends at a party on Friday night, after he was sharing his holiday plans to go to Indonesia. This bitch knows there's a fucking genocide in West Papua and still doesn't give a fuck. Bitch got uncomfortable and left. I DGAF!! Be uncomfortable bitch!! #FreeaWestPapua

Times are definitely difficult but I do hope some of you take at least a few hours to enjoy something over the weekend. It's really important in order to stay in the struggle.

Your wellness routine should include taking precautions to avoid multiple covid infections that damage your immune system, hope that helps. 🌟💕

all I’ve got ahead of me today is a new book and fresh produce from the growers market hell yea

WHAT? WE ARE SHADOWBANNED ON TWITTER AND HAVE ONLY A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND FOLLOWERS HERE! SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!!! 😒

there’s a few minor errors in my PhD and I love them. It makes the work feel so human and reflects how messy and REAL the whole experience was. I, Hana, the human, wrote that 😍

my māmā is at WIPCE 2025! her first ever conference, she is having the best time. it’s also so cool for her to get a sense of the Indigenous academic spaces and voices that radicalised me.

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

my love @haylzk.bsky.social wrote this beautiful piece reflecting on ableism, long covid and the world(s) we are moving thru ✨ kia ora xx

incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year! www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one

🧵 Our new QUEER AS… website Exploring queer Indigenous creativity. With: Blaqademics/Indigiqueers Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up). Indigenous Creatives Queer Museums Queer Tv - deep dive Our pubs and info queer-as.org

June Jordan said, "Activism... propels you forward, from one hard hour to the next. Believing that you can do something to make things better, you do something, rather than nothing... You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding.“

10 months no alcohol feels good bro

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." – Grace Lee Boggs

"Some are children who can no longer attend school. Others are young adults who were once thriving and are now bed-bound. Many are mothers and fathers who can no longer care for their own families. They don’t just need a doctor. They need multidisciplinary care." #longcovid #mecfs

wearing a mask everywhere is so hard sometimes but long covid is a thousand times worse

put down over 30 dahlias in our garden yesterday, with over 20 varieties in the mix ! phew lol. shout out to my great aunty and mum in law for opening this portal! 🌼🌸

All of this here in New Zealand

#LongCovid “No one is immune to this” Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that. www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of kiwis have Long Covid. The virus is still circulating in communities and schools and still disabling.

our bed of purple asparagus is pumping

Hi Bluesky FAFSWAG is in the building!! FAFSWAG is an arts collective of Māori and Pacific LGBTQIA+ artists and activists founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2013. They explore and celebrate the unique identity of gender fluid Pacific people and LGBTQI+ communities in multi-disciplinary art forms.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

The Flotilla has achieved several remarkable victories. But the one thing that hits the hardest is that for the first time in years, Palestinians were able to go fishing due to the Flotilla keeping the IOF distracted. May it be the first of many wins ♥️

Another treasure trove of Covid information is at johnsnowproject.org videos, primers, covers children, masking, bullying, etc. Well done and very informative.

Applications are now open for the Toi Pōneke d/Deaf and Disabled Artist Development Residency 2026. This eight-week residency (16 Feb – 12 April 2026) offers a studio space, stipend, and mentor support. Applications close 5pm, Monday 17 November 2025. Find out more and apply here:

they ask me to imagine but they want me to imagine their futures and i keep imagining mine.

the pipiwharauroa are so loud around our whare ! yet to spot one with my eyes but they sound so close

Press release by Palestine Solidarity Movement Aotearoa followed by the text of Peters speech at the UN today #NZPol www.psna.nz/press-releas...

If you can koha to this e te whānau, I feel like Heeni has given so much in her mahi that now it's time for us to give back to her and her whānau: givealittle.co.nz/cause/koha-f...

Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order, says Treasury, and since it obviously can't be landlords or tobacco companies or the wealthy, we're afraid it's going to have to be you.

Peace Action Ōtautahi are organising a protest and blockade of the Aerospace Summit Oct 7-8 Te Pae Convention Centre Ōtautahi

www.kuputoitakataapui.com/publications Also have put this up on the Kupu Toi Takataapui website - comes from some of the work I did for my thesis. Would love to build a more comprehensive list of queer Maaori fiction and poetry with you all <3

did so much from my to do list this morning I’m calling it a day (it’s 10am lol) mauri oraaa

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

this week marks a year since a covid infection completely upended my life, I already had long covid but it got 100x worse and I’m still recovering. there’s so much to be said about disability justice and the pandemic. I’m yet to properly articulate my experience. it’s been devastating.

being gentle w myself this week