Kia ora! This morning we launched a Boosted campaign for DAWN - the debut film by Jasmine Day - it’s a powerful South AKL story based on her own experiences navigating housing insecurity and police discrimination while raising her siblings. Pls tautoko if you can! www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

Kia ora old friends and strangers, just wanted to drop in and say hi, hello, I hope you’re well. 🫶🏽

Beabadoobee would have totally played at P3 in the 90s

Ruapehu, Taranaki, Ngā Pae o Tararua and Te Wai Pounamu were all startlingly clear from Ōtaki tonight (and poorly captured by my phone)

What’s happening with all of the Kainga Ora development around Hendon Ave? Is it just not anymore?

Bruh the regulatory standards feedback form sucks

Ya know, I’ve been programming Indigenous films for 12 years and every year I continue to be shocked by new levels of colonial and capitalist depravity

Today was a massive day for Ōtaki with Rā Whakapūmau at Te Wānanga o Raukawa and then our own celebration at Māoriland for our editing grads. Seeing everyone getting their tohu ☺️ magic

I don’t trust people who drink lattes

People who own rabbits etc, just lose their sense of hygiene eh. Why are you comfortable with poop on your floors. That’s gross man.

Watching a doco on an Indigenous fight against oil and gas on their whenua and the oil company gifted them a slab of plastic bottled water and packets of cigarettes as a sign of peace. This happened in the last couple of years. I wish I was joking.

TIL that people still call Sápmi Lapland because white people are all over my tiktok calling it that. Ew

I did NCEA, I found the assessment style basically the same as UoA, and actually reused my l3 and scholarship essays for my first year of English papers 😅 so what’s changed?

#ToitūTeTiriti ✨Treaty Principles Bill Submission Guide✨ Released today by KOEKOEĀ @koekoeaa - a Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti roopu offering accessible info and workshops for Select Committee Submissions. - Linktree full of resources - nightly workshops on FB, Tiktok + IG Nau mai, haere mai!

I thought I was a recovered Wicked fanatic but ….. something has changed within me 🐸

RNZ news today: A report shows that Māori are 11% more likely to be prosecuted than New Zealand Europeans for the same crime. Next item: The new Police Commissioner is open to thinking about the routine arming of police. Join the dots / do the maths.

And today this www.health.govt.nz/news/whoopin...

This government has a policy of increasing the prison population, which doesn’t really benefit any of us at all. We knows prisons don’t work and incarceration generally worsens outcomes. If life is already hard, prison makes it worse, and even harder to get out of a cycle of poverty.

What does Luxon actually do. He doesn’t have any portfolios, he evidently doesn’t read anything and isn’t across anything, he doesn’t appear to have any interest or respect for the people of Aotearoa. Why are you there?

I used a video editor to analyse the video + estimated the size of the space using google maps Based on that, the lower bound of the number of people in the video is about 83,000 people. Plus the 4,000 already at Parliament house (according to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social) that makes 87,000 people.

Don’t forget that the National Party campaigned on getting rid of Te Aka Whai Ora, they fed anti reo Māori sentiment. Besides the Treaty Principles Bill, this govt has attacked Māori wards and cogovernance, is repealing section 7aa, and is generally, proactively working to make Māori lives harder.

Eru Kapa-Kingi, speaking at the hīkoi: “Pākehā mā, you should not fear Māori liberation. Because Māori liberation goes hand in hand with the liberation of all people who live in Aotearoa... Everyone gets a feed on this marae. No one gets left behind." #ToitūTeTiriti

Let's make it reach 200,000 before the hikoi leaves Waitangi Park. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

This excellent piece sums up a great deal of what bugs me about the framing of "impartiality" in news media. Nevak Rogers takes leave to march with her whanau and it's news, but Soper and HDPA *use their actual media platform* to scorn the hikoi and that's different? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...

If you haven’t signed the petition, do it now. It takes no time at all. It closes at midnight and will be delivered to parliament tomorrow. Send it to your mates, to your whānau. Make sure we’re all heard. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

We’re going to have a baby in the house soon so we went and got boostrix. It’s recommended for everyone in the house to get it but unless you’re pregnant it’s $75 a head. Wtf, how are families supposed to afford this.

Anyone know where you can get Tino car flags in Tāmaki?

One time I was at an event overseas and it was pretty heavy and there was a beautiful haka at the end including the creators on stage and when one of the audience members asked what it meant the (Māori!!!) mod replied ‘it’s just something we do’ 🤦🏽‍♀️

Watching a doco from the truth and reconciliation process in Canada is a stark contrast with the fauxpology weve just seen in Aotearoa. The same things happened here, the inquiry found a direct link from colonisation to state care to incarceration & our PM couldnt even give the survivors a whole day

Interviewed Aaron Smale about being banned from an event where the government holds itself accountable for being too forceful in holding the government accountable www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawa...

10's of 1000's marching and many more descending on Tuesday. If you can't make it or are not in a postion to donate to the hikoi there is always action stations petition. Hey, Fundy Luxe and Seymour will ignore, but at 87,000 sigs so far it's very loud. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

This is the plan. They do want to dismantle Te Tiriti, but in the "normal" way.

Proud to be part of the Sydney Hikoi in support of Te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤

Ōtaki.

Over the past three years we’ve been able to offer free performing arts programs through Te Ara Toi - our creative spaces kaupapa. Over that time our kaiārahi Lou has delivered over 328 programs engaging 2000+ participants and even more whānau and audiences.

the Haka has reached US discourse and I keep seeing it referred to as a 'war dance' and ... no that's grossly reductive, and part of a colonial pattern of reducing everything about Māori culture to violence. Please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAe...

Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another tusiata.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

This bill represents the most significant breach of Te Tiriti in modern times. Remember their names, every government MP who voted with their party today and didn’t stand up for their own conscience.

Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

file under; Images that go hard

@morgangodfery.bsky.social just read your piece with Gabriella Hirst in Art News, fascinating, stunning. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about gardens as a tool of colonisation, particularly the concept of a lawn. I’m not sure if Hana is here too, but thank you!

How do we get a park upgraded

One nice thing from the endless lockdown of 2021, was freesia season when I’d go on my stupid hamster wheel walk, see this stupid little cat and pick freesias

For months now, The Disinformation Project has been flagging that increasingly extreme disinformation harms are falling disproportionately on high profile wāhine Māori, especially as the election nears. Lots of people politely appreciate that information, but decline to take preventative action.

Sharing the triangle showing how sexist, homophobic, transphobic comments support violence, yet again. The same applies with racism, ableism and other forms of bigotry. We can change this and we must.

Today was an extremely bizarre today so for tomorrow I’m making everyone chicken soup. Don’t question it. 🥲

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