Weaponising Art for Good

Steph pictured at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti left, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke pictured centre, a picture of the hīkoi right

Since I last blogged, the world has kind of imploded. Trump was elected. That three-word sentence punches my gut with every syllable. David Seymour has carried the Treaty Principles Bill to its first hearing. My words struggle in the shallow waters of my patience for this man and his twisted vision of what Aotearoa should […]

My words will not be ashes

Portrait shot of Steph Julian

Tell a writer to ‘write anything’ and they will stall. Anything is pretty big. When deciding what to talk about in this blog post, I asked myself what I would want to read. I teleported back to when I would scour the pages of blogs of Te Papa Tupu writers and wondered what I most […]