“I hope that we dispel once and for all the myth that democracy in Sāmoa and the wider Pacific is uneventful or unsophisticated and unworthy of New Zealand attention.” — Patrick Thomsen.
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“I know that Pacific communities do have space and love for us, even if the extremist religious groups seem to have the loudest microphones.” — Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen.
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“From the outside, my life looked positively magical. But this perfectly curated image that I had crafted on social media, hid the reality of what life was really like for me abroad.” — Patrick Thomsen.
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“The people I once loved 11 years ago had changed. They had experienced their own joys, growth, traumas and regressions. Distance had grown between many of us.” — Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen on coming “home”.
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“There can be no open, fair and honest conversations or ‘equality’ when one side denies your history, denies your narrative, denies your suffering.” — Patrick Thomsen.
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“I’ve found it disheartening that their stories are almost always left out when we talk about Pacific peoples and our contribution to New Zealand society.” — Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen on the Pacific’s Rainbow and Queer community.
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“Some of the things you may have learned from those anthropology textbooks shouldn’t be seen as a bible for what a ‘real’ Sāmoan is.” — Patrick Thomsen.
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“It’s precisely in these moments of panic that a country’s inequities are most visible.” — Patrick Thomsen
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“Israel Folau’s demise is one that I can’t fully celebrate as a gay Pasifika person.”—Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen.
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Disney’s latest film, Moana, featuring its first Pacific Island princess, is being released in New...
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The NCEA final exams that are about to take place in a few weeks will, for a large proportion of...
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