Not all of us find our way home
“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.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Sep 27, 2020 | Reflections
“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.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Aug 9, 2020 | Reflections
“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”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Jul 19, 2020 | Reflections
“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.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | May 31, 2020 | Reflections
“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.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | May 17, 2020 | Identity, Reo
“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.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Mar 29, 2020 | Comment & Analysis
“It’s precisely in these moments of panic that a country’s inequities are most visible.” — Patrick Thomsen
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Apr 14, 2019 | Comment & Analysis
“Israel Folau’s demise is one that I can’t fully celebrate as a gay Pasifika person.”—Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen.
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Dec 10, 2016 | Arts
Disney’s latest film, Moana, featuring its first Pacific Island princess, is being released in New...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Thomsen | Nov 5, 2016 | Comment & Analysis
The NCEA final exams that are about to take place in a few weeks will, for a large proportion of...
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