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Whakapapa Portraits
The wharenui at Rongopai Marae is lined with paintings of a whakapapa full of life and colour. For ‘future ANCESTORS’, Sinead Overbye considers what it means to one day join those walls as tīpuna.
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korowai
Tucked in the back of her aunty’s whip with all the whakapapa, from tīpuna to mokopuna, Isla Huia shares this poem for ‘future ANCESTORS’.
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Te Whāriki Aroha
In this personal and vulnerable essay for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Rangimarie Sophie Jolley reflects on whānau, whakapapa, and takatāpuitanga. Carrying these thoughts with her, she writes to future mokopuna with love in her heart.
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SOMETHING OF YOU
The world is so vast, so small and filled with the knowledge of those before us. From the moana to the whetū, in this long-form piece Liam Jacobson travels through these places to find the voices calling us home.
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A Hopeful Ancestor
For ‘future ANCESTORS’ Jessica Hinerangi T.C reflects upon what kind of ancestor she is right now, what kind her mokopuna will see her as, what kind she would like to be and what kind she will inevitably end up becoming.
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i wonder
Chris Girven wrote this poem after having an existential crisis on their bedroom floor.
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
kī anthony and their sibling explore rage, alienation, and their own fraught family through Saraid de Silva’s ‘Amma’.
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nana
Loss becomes a tender, beautiful moment in this poem by Chris Girven, about their last visit they had with their nana before she passed away.
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coming home for dinner
Around an Asian migrant dinner table, dietary restrictions, chronic illness and queerness become thorny subjects to avoid.
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When I Arrive in Niue
Poet Katalaina Polata’ivao imagines a time when they once again visit their homeland.
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My Mother Loves Me
Mari digs their heels in and wades through the complex boundary of being loved and being liked by your parents.
Tag: family
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