That's all. Wellington people may wish me to be Tina, but I said no. This was a legally defensible choice. I chose to pivot to writing a book. If the crook producers hadn't sold it, there wouldn't be a problem. I'm being punished for their unethical decision to rewrite me. - Focus on the positives, like my gig reviews, rather than exploiting me. If I look good in the clothes, that's the result of years of effort. There's no shortcut. All the closet cases need to assert

Because then it's not about European imagination of Māori. If Rameka sits tacit in the centre for four out of the five movements, he's the exotic object. - The whole point is that 'the maori' isn't a real person. The guitarist and harpist could be of any ethnicity. - Says it all about how people are wired. The quartet is explicitly a critique of representation, and the response from mainstream classical was to strongly suggest (read "force me") to add token representati

Really simple: I'm sick of those gimmicks. Mākutu is a joke on the audience, which associates Māoris with exotic sounds, even though the...

The Blue Continent and the Shores of Tāmaki Before Europeans marked Aotearoa on their charts, the seas between Kāwhia, Tāmaki, and...

When I looked up the Puhihuia song, the sheet music said that Ruby King had been told that story by Chief Tahuri Kaora of Ngāti Hikairo. Dr. Brown sent me an article in reply, stating that the story was usually attributed to Auckland tribes, such as Maungawhau and Awhitu, but that was George Grey's bowdlerised version of the story. This new attribution might be a more authentic telling of the mōteatea. Anyway, that was a pretty clear sign of whakapapa. - My Dad's family

The Māori in European Art: Reclaiming the Iconomy of Sound by Amanda Michelina When Leonard Bell published The Māori in European Art  in 1980, he was documenting more than just a collection of colonial paintings and engravings. He was tracing the European imagination of the Māori  — a field of vision shaped as much by fantasy as by observation. In his introduction, Bell remarks on an engraving from around 1800, and a photograph from around 1900: “The engraver responsible for

They have no case. Telling me that I should study because the coalition government is willing to enable them to bully me is unacceptable....

Well, with the anniversary of the attacks, Question Time was an afterthought. The new MPs weren't sworn in today, as Winston made a ministerial statement on his speech at the UN and his decision not to recognise Palestine. I'm saying that it's Winston's call, as the Omelette would've bowed to the pressure. Willow Jean had some friends at Parliament today, in the Speaker's Gallery and then right in Luxon's eye line during the session. Cool! I'm more or less banned from that

It takes formal apologies and compensation. No NDA, no suggestion other than NZSM accepting their illegal acts. VUW is on the hook for...

You’ve proposed that a particular Niuean hiapo (barkcloth)  featuring a circular, radial design  may not simply be decorative or...

On the way to the Countdown...

Blame your bigoted actions and deliberate attempts to ostracise me for being trans. Everyone loves the rants until they're in the firing...

That's what my enemies are going through. Bargaining atm. The cops are on their arse, and they're realising that the laws aren't on...

Nope. I don't live in the closet, so there's only one personality. AMPP clearly displays me behaving like an irate journalist with and...

From the outset, one of the things we were fighting with Fresh Culture was this idea that the reporter should be the story for short-form...

Well, it's slightly different as the victim rather than the suspect, but still a stressor. Sorting out my whole life story after being...

Yes, that is the intention of several projects, but you can't ask me to act or sing. I'm not going to sell my book rights, so it would...

In Music and The Power of Sound, Danielou says that the Celtic modes are the same as the Spanish and North African modes, which suggests...

Don't give me a temp track unless you're one of those brilliant needle-drop directors. I don't want a music supervisor telling me to...