Miriama Aoake (Ngaati Maahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato-Tainui) is a writer, critic and postgraduate student in Māori Studies. Her dissertation focuses on the development on Mana Wāhine theory – from cosmogony through Indigenous futurism, contingent on the realisation of tino rangatiratanga.
Miriama Aoake reflects on the complexity and hilarity of Aroha Bridge, and how no other series has captured such uncanny representations of her whānau.