Ngāti Maniapoto, Falefā | Gabriella Makerita Hinetu Brayne was raised in Massey Waitākere and is currently studying in Cuk-Ṣon (Tucson, AZ) on the lands of the Tohono O'odham and Pasqua Yaqui Nations.
Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabella Ieremia and Hugo Wagner-Hiliau. Their research calls for abolition and an ending to carceral capitalism, envisioning emancipatory past futures for Tangata o le Moana and the globe.