Naenae – Part 1

My childhood was really difficult because I didn’t know exactly who I was as a person. It was the early 90’s, I decided I liked a girl, I got beaten up for that. My Dad’s white and of that generation. My Mum is Maori, we never talked about Maori heritage. When I found out about […]

Jan

“As a girl who left school at sixteen, I never dreamed of university education or in adulthood gaining a Ph.D. in chemistry. I didn’t know about my Māori heritage until a few years ago. I had no idea. I was brought up entirely Pākehā, but the first time I stepped onto a Marae to go […]