Te Whanau a Apanui & Ngati Porou. Author of Poūkahangatus & Rangikura. Published by Knopf, Penguin UK & THWUP Agent: Duvall Osteen @ UTA. RANGIKURA out APRIL 9
Māori are most likely to be incarcerated & no doubt will be the people most targeted by armed police. Arming police, especially in areas with high Māori population is completely unacceptable. Its a modern armed constabulary, it’s giving the coloniser a bayonet again.
#ArmsDownNZ
One of the best ways individual pakeha can show solidarity for the BLM movement is to start doing some serious self-directed forensics on the ways in which they are attached to, participate in, benefit from, uphold and perpetuate white supremacy.
I got this annoying message this morning saying "if I ever want to be taken seriously as a writer" I better stop posting selfies but Im 24 & I'm taken SO seriously as a writer but there's not enough media attention about my good indigenous looks so as a Libra it's not fair
The rumours are true! I’ve signed a two book deal with
@AAKnopf
to publish both Poūkahangatus & Rangikura in the US 🌺🔥
Lil Poū is set to make her American debut next American summer, July 2022. Please wish us well!
Thank u again 2 everyone who continues to read and support me
If I was a racist pakeha I would be quiet, because the actual reality is, no one outside of NZ gives a fuck about you! Literally! You have no rep! No international appeal! You have nothing unique or interesting to offer the world.
I honestly wasn't gonna say anything because I didn't want to take anything away from anyone but gathering outside parliament to light candles and sing slave songs just doesn't sit right imo
Kia Ora Whanau tbh I can’t help but feel whakama about this now given what happened last night, but it does talk about whakama, about not feeling like you’re doing enough, about feeling like you have arrived too late...
I finally saw 1x celebrity in LA. It was Helen Mirren. She told me she loved my outfit. Rangikura sold its print run in a week. Im learning A LOT. I feel like I’ve been away for 3 years and have lived 100 different lives. I’m so tired, but I love going with the flow
Okay not to be romantic but can we also acknowledge the specific wairua, mauri, emotion, whatever it’s is that is radiating tf from him and like, welling in his eyes? Its like both the pressure and the relief that you are representing your people, our past and future ancestors.
If the platform “aims to support diverse voices” then why can’t she name one indigenous author with whakapapa to the land she lives on, and got half a milli from? Y’all wild.
I am so relieved that NZ History is going to be compulsory in schools. I was lucky to be taught, and I can say with no exaggeration that it changed my life. It empowered me to fuck it up sis lol. Ka whaiwhai tonu matou.
It’s so annoying as a woman of colour sometimes you just meet a person and you just KNOW like you are immediately put into ancestral fight or flight mode and you can’t articulate it to anyone cos they haven’t done anything obviously racist yet & you’re not judging but you KNOW
#Ihumatao
Love how inclusive and decolonized this place is; the patched putting up tents with the tamariki, alongside our kaumatua like Moana Jackson and Hone Harawira.
Us having a paint and the Kuia are going “chuuuur that’s neat alright!”
& by us I mean Miri
"We are the original storytellers and we can make it here."
#JojoRabbit
's
@TaikaWaititi
dedicates his
#Oscars
win to "all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art, dance and write stories"
This is exactly who we are. We are a country founded on white supremacy and violence perpetuated by white privilege and ignorance and people and platforms and media who treat POC and our experiences of racism as intellectual experiments. You are still cracking open our skulls
Kia Ora e hoas, I have a new poem up
@lithub
called ‘Tohunga’ about my two most favourite favourite things : colonisation and climate change 💗
🤪🔥😎☀️☄️💥☠️✨💋
I’ve been sharing this over on Instagram but I have capacity atm to assist any black writers who might want to write something about their experiences, or what is going on right now with both the writing process or getting your writing placed and published in Aotearoa.
Feeling tino skux that Rangikura has made the longlist for the Ockhams, especially alongside our other
@thwupbooks
authors & with special 🖤🤍❤️ to Ruby & Nicole!
Kia Ora E hoas!!!! BRO I am so excited to share the secret project I’ve been working on for like a year lol…. HUFFER x TAYI TIBBLE
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A massive honour to have been able to participate in the evening and opening ceremonies for Te Rau Aroha, the new museum on Treaty Grounds commemorating Māori Service Men
I feel sorry for people who are anti-mask because that means they don't think they are famous. I personally love wearing a mask in public as an incredibly famous person.
Tested positive & said he wasn’t gonna isolate… bish wtf. We are having to constantly remind him to wear a mask when he’s mucking around in the house too. It’s effed
My great grandmother (& my bestie) making my grandad take this photo of her in a self fashioned fern bra on their second date…. She just like me for real 🌿🌿
HOT GIRL SUMMER ESSENTIALS:
- a 2000s mini bag
- a water bottle (dewy look)
- climate change/decolonisation placards (elevated look)
- fruit
- bellychains & diamanté g-strings
- true e hoas
- the Louis Vuitton x Dan Carter rugby ball bag
- Sport 47
This is cool af! My first Voyager Media Award nomination! Ngā mihi
@SteveBraunias
&
@NewsroomNZ
& ❤️ to the other finalists but by other finalists I mean
@Bexmana
xoxo
Happy to share that Rangikura has made the shortlist for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 🔥 Thank you to everyone who has read and supported Rangikura. I am very grateful & so proud proud of this body of work
I wrote about being too pohara for The Sims, destroying my mums morale by way of destroying her makeup, raaawr xo, how I quit drawing my eyebrows on with sharpies, love, and the time Rachel Hunter unintentionally shaded me (& I loved it).
I survived clean girl aesthetic, pilates princess etc but it’s this Sofia Richie old money quiet luxury aesthetic that’s gonna push me from the internet. I don’t know who needs to hear this but a rich man is never going to notice your shoes from The Row & pick you
When society collapses and indigenous knowledge and leadership is needed to create sustainable koha communities y’all better hope y’all weren’t out here calling Māori beneficiaries on Facebook ✌🏽
My fifteen year old sister FaceTimed me to critique me on my Tiktok including working on my stance and using the in-app music for maximum reach. She said I displayed some appitude in rhythm though, so that was nice
Kia Ora e hoas! This year I judged the 2021 Nationals Schools Poetry Award & we announce the winner and finalists today! Congratulations to all finalists, and to Caitlin Jenkin’s from Papatoetoe HS for her winning poem South! 😤✊🏽❤️
"Nobody goes near the lake anymore, not since / they found that swollen brown body floating / amongst the pōhutukawa leaves and beer cans."
For the
@PENworldvoices
Festival, read a poem by Tayi Tibble (
@paniaofthekeef
).
The police are blocking/isolating the front line at ihumatao making it impossible to bring food/water etc to them. Please, if you can get to Ihumatao go there they need the numbers.
What if I make an only fans to read poetry in lingerie and tell you the raw unfiltered truth about my life and everything that made me from the hood streets of elsdon to 1991 followers on twitter
✨Happy National Poetry Day✨
Here is my new poem 'That House' recently published in Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and inequality in a Divided World 🔥
#nzpoetryday
#poetry
I actually love these lil publishing round up threads. I think they’re so cute! 2019 has been a huge year for my writing including The Ockhams, Edinburgh, editing Sport. Nga mihi to everyone who read me and published me and showed me love. Pls continue to support me 2020 K pop
We're excited to announce that SPORT 47 will be guest-edited by Tayi Tibble
@tayitibble
You have one month to send your most brilliant work to Victoria-Press
@vuw
.ac.nz - submissions close June 1.
Kia Ora e hoas! ‘Can I still come Crash at yours’ & ‘Takakino’ from RANGIKURA 🔥 published today. Thank you v much
@GrantaMag
& happy publication day to me hehe.
I remember this group of all pakeha WGTN girls had this film production company & gave themselves a Māori name plus were making this film about teenage pregnancy with unpaid Māori actors & I was like wtf & they were like well it might lead to further opportunities for the actors
Yeah white passing Māori are Māori but when are we going to have actual conversations about colourism among Māori? I feel like I've been seeing conversations claiming it's irrelevant because whakapapa is what makes you Māori, and while that is true, most of us still live in...
Everyone who can be at Ihumatao should be there now. Get on Instagram and watch @ protectihumatao's live. Be confronted by what is happening. Heart is breaking rn but its toughening too. But tautoko and kia kaha to those who are holding it down rn with peace, love and dignity..