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Kaikaranga of My Dreams — A Response to ‘What Happened to Mary-Anne?”
Kitty Wasasala wants to follow Brady Peeti—the kaikaranga of their dreams— into a rock waiata future as they respond to ‘What Happened to Mary-Anne?’.
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Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu
In which Josiah Morgan is pōhara on a haerenga with Michelle Rahurahu’s ‘Poorhara’ and its haerenga.
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BALDH3AD! / Ka Whawhai Tonu Mātou
A new poem by Isla Huia, after THEIA’s “musical assault on the plague of colonisation”, ‘BALDH3AD!’.
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To You, My Whānau, My Mokopuna
In a new addition to the future ANCESTORS kaupapa, Felix Stribling writes of feeling out of place as a Māori American and as a queer person.
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Ngā Reta — A Response
Elise Sadlier attends Basement Theatre’s first fully te reo Māori production, ‘Ngā Reta’. She writes in response to fellow Gizzy Girl / Te Wānanga Takiura tuakana Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana.
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The Tiwhas: A Matariki Spectacular — A Response
As part of Basement Theatre’s Matariki offerings, Ayla Brockes headed along to ‘The Tiwhas: A Matariki Spectacular’ and wrote of their experience.
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Being both
For our ‘future ANCESTORS’ collection, Jo Bragg considers what it means to be someone standing in many different worlds.
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Pikitia for Sad Tamariki
Time for a reo Māori lesson with Nicola Andrews. Kupu hou o te rā? Takatāpui.
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Kinda cannibalistic
‘Kinda cannibalistic’ tells half a story of returning back home, always. It is the beginning of an examination, a contrast, between the Pākehā world and te ao Māori through ideologies of biblical text and their effect on the Māori world.
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Whati
This poem is a deep dive into another form of displacement that occurs with people from the diaspora. It is told from the perspective of someone who is from the diaspora, takatāpui, AFAB, born and raised in an urban setting, and all of the ways colonisation and its agents attempt to continue displacing her even…