Standing still in the whirlwind
“We haven’t ‘lost our innocence’, as so many have said. We never had any.”
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Author: Māmari Stephens
The Empathy Gap and Me
“The Māori experience of colonisation, disease, war, urbanisation and deprivation within this country is unique to Māori.”
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Papatūānuku, Pan, and a lonely kid in Christchurch
Papatūānuku has been an emblem of political identity and cultural survival for Māori.
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Why is God and sexuality so bloody difficult?
“Christianity is a religion of failures and dropkicks, hypocrites and losers, because most of us are goodish, but not one of us is good enough. We all know this regardless of belief, right?”
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Māmari Stephens: I never saw any narrative of Māori life until I was an adult
“It took years of very conscious effort for me not to be afraid to walk into a room full of people darker than I was.”
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