Ana McAllister
Ana McAllister (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou) is a mana wāhine Māori intersectional feminist. Growing up as a self-proclaimed white-passing diasporic Māori, Ana has occupied both Pākehā and Māori spaces whilst simultaneously never completely fitting in either. Ana is a published poet, performance and installation artist, protest organiser, academic and researcher whose work occupies a complex space within Te Ao Māori; interweaving responsibilities to tikanga Māori, mana wāhine, with contemporary ideas of sexuality, modern cultural identities, and social media. They were a Staff Writer at The Pantograph Punch 2021 – 2022.
Everything By: Ana McAllister
The Pantograph Punch team humbly acknowledges all that photosynthesising green beings do for us and our ora.
Power lies in sovereign expression of sexuality. Ana McAllister and the Pantograph Punch team on thirst-trap photography.
Ahead of its nationwide release, Ana McAllister on dystopian futuristic Indigenous sci-fi film Night Raiders.
What do kids, an asthma inhaler, mugs, uku tangi and a keepsake box have in common?
Ana McAllister on the protocols she uses to protect her tinana and wairua in her activism mahi.
Ana McAllister reviews Tayi Tibble’s second book, Rangikura. And it's lessons on being a spiritual Māori angel and a horny baddie.
The crowd at the opening event of Āhua Collective’s 2021 exhibition was gloriously queer and BBIPOC. Ana McAllister reviews.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and online in March 2021.
Ana McAllister in conversation with Jayden Rurawhe and Paris Elwood about rongoa and healing through takatāpui performance.
Ana McAllister sees parts of herself and her whānau reflected in Mata, Missy and Makareta, characters from the movie Cousins, directed by Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith.
In the wake of Mercy Pictures’ People of Colour exhibition, Ana McAllister writes on art that is deliberately triggering, or divisive.
Me aroha ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one: Pay heed to the mana of women.
The ‘Māori-fication’ of Aunty Jacinda and meanings behind our motifs in Māori visual art.
If colonisation is tearing us down and we are tearing each other down, then who is left to build us back up? Anna McAllister on revealing her moko kauae.
Art schools are seen by many as beacons of liberalism. But is this the reality?
