Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou), is known as the Mother of Indigenous Studies. Her book “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” is considered one of the most influential texts on Indigenous research. Her books, articles and lectures are prescribed texts in Universities around the world. Professor Tuhiwai Smith is one of the first Māori women to become a Fellow of the Royal Society, she has received an Honorary Doctorate in Canada and her Prime Minister’s Award is the highest national award for lifetime achievement in education. Appointments to organisations such as the Marsden Fund, the Waitangi Tribunal and Māori Economic Development Board are reflections of her expertise, contributions to the New Zealand research community and to Māori/iwi development.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

A poem about systemic and institutional racism against Māori in Aotearoa by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

And the Warriors Came

Van 梅 (they/them) is an arts polymath, Libra with fire placements and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Since graduating from AUT with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2017, they have worked across the sector as a poet, performer, artist, sports commentator and freelancer for anyone that paid her (and a few that didn't). Previous roles include producing, curating, writing and comms management for the likes of Basement Theatre, Window Gallery, and at Pantograph! Most recently they were the Director of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 2020 – 2022. They are interested in relational approaches to wellbeing, Queer theory, anime and arts publishing. Their debut collection of poetry can be found in AUP New Poets 6, published by Auckland University Press.

Van Mei (they/them) is an artist, writer and the current Kaitohu of The Pantograph Punch. Get in touch at vanessa@pantograph-punch.com!

Van Mei 

Always Becominging’s debut poetry book plays with profundity and deceit. Van Mei reviews.

I Am A Reader Reading: A Review of I Am A Human Being

Tina Ngata is a Ngati Porou mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. Her work involves advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a globally sustainable future.

Tina Ngata an advocate for environmental, Indigenous and human rights.

Tina Ngata

 A poem about systemic and institutional racism against Māori in the media by Tina Ngata.

Dear Stuff

Tusiata Avia is a poet, performer and writer. She has published three books of poetry, a chapbook, three children’s books and is included in over 100 anthologies, journals and online publications. Tusiata has held a number of writers’ residencies and awards, including the CNZ Fulbright Pacific Writer’s Fellowship at University of Hawai’i and the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. Known for her dynamic performance style, she wrote and then performed Wild Dogs Under My Skirt as a one-woman show (2002-2009). In 2016 it became a multi award-winning play for 6 women, directed by Anapela Polata’ivao. In January 2020 Wild Dogs Under My Skirt made its American debut, Off- Broadway.

Tusiata Avia

Tusiata Avia writes a poem in remembrance of the Christchurch earthquakes 10 years on. 

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