In Sept 2015 a councillor said during the public council meeting that if ‘you give Māori an inch then they’ll take a mile’. Ironic, given that’s exactly how Māori lost our land but I digress. Imagine the uproar if I had said that about women? Or about pakeha? As a councillor. In a council meeting! ...
My Waru Reflections DISCLAIMER: If you haven’t seen Waru then I suggest you don’t read any further, because this does contain spoilers! Now that Waru has been out for a while, I wanted to write why it spoke to me. Because it spoke to me like nothing else I’ve ever seen. It spoke to my ...
A reflection being a Rangatahi Social Worker I’ve been wondering for the last hour or so if I should put this up and it maybe the fatigue making the decision for me, or maybe it’s just the heartache, but here it goes. The Past My first job in Social Work was working at the Activity ...
Note: This is a facebook post I repurposed for my blog What if Te Reo and English were banned at schools? And replaced with Klingon! Imagine NZ was invaded tomorrow and all of a sudden our kids were banned from speaking English or Māori in school, they were only allowed to speak Klingon. Furthermore our ...
Depression is like trying to tread water in a vast open ocean in pitch black darkness. You don’t know which way you need to be treading water but you’re gonna try and tread it anyway. Initially, you’re energised and think you’ll get out of the water soon. That you’ll find land. You tell yourself, if ...