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Māoriland Film Festival Sometimes Tāmaki, Sometimes Ōtaki, Always proud to be Māori.

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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Kia ora! This morning we launched a Boosted campaign for DAWN - the debut film by Jasmine Day - it’s a powerful South AKL story based on her own experiences navigating housing insecurity and police discrimination while raising her siblings. Pls tautoko if you can! www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
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Dawn
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Kia ora old friends and strangers, just wanted to drop in and say hi, hello, I hope you’re well. 🫶🏽
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Beabadoobee would have totally played at P3 in the 90s
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ruapehu, Taranaki, Ngā Pae o Tararua and Te Wai Pounamu were all startlingly clear from Ōtaki tonight (and poorly captured by my phone)
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
What’s happening with all of the Kainga Ora development around Hendon Ave? Is it just not anymore?
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Bruh the regulatory standards feedback form sucks
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Ya know, I’ve been programming Indigenous films for 12 years and every year I continue to be shocked by new levels of colonial and capitalist depravity
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Today was a massive day for Ōtaki with Rā Whakapūmau at Te Wānanga o Raukawa and then our own celebration at Māoriland for our editing grads. Seeing everyone getting their tohu ☺️ magic
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I don’t trust people who drink lattes
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
People who own rabbits etc, just lose their sense of hygiene eh. Why are you comfortable with poop on your floors. That’s gross man.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Watching a doco on an Indigenous fight against oil and gas on their whenua and the oil company gifted them a slab of plastic bottled water and packets of cigarettes as a sign of peace. This happened in the last couple of years. I wish I was joking.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
TIL that people still call Sápmi Lapland because white people are all over my tiktok calling it that. Ew
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I did NCEA, I found the assessment style basically the same as UoA, and actually reused my l3 and scholarship essays for my first year of English papers 😅 so what’s changed?
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I thought I was a recovered Wicked fanatic but ….. something has changed within me 🐸
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Elizabeth S @irihapeta.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
RNZ news today: A report shows that Māori are 11% more likely to be prosecuted than New Zealand Europeans for the same crime. Next item: The new Police Commissioner is open to thinking about the routine arming of police. Join the dots / do the maths.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And today this www.health.govt.nz/news/whoopin...
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Whooping cough epidemic declared across Aotearoa New Zealand
Health agencies have confirmed today that Aotearoa New Zealand is now in the early stages of a whooping cough epidemic, with a nationally coordinated response now in place.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This government has a policy of increasing the prison population, which doesn’t really benefit any of us at all. We knows prisons don’t work and incarceration generally worsens outcomes. If life is already hard, prison makes it worse, and even harder to get out of a cycle of poverty.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What does Luxon actually do. He doesn’t have any portfolios, he evidently doesn’t read anything and isn’t across anything, he doesn’t appear to have any interest or respect for the people of Aotearoa. Why are you there?
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I used a video editor to analyse the video + estimated the size of the space using google maps Based on that, the lower bound of the number of people in the video is about 83,000 people. Plus the 4,000 already at Parliament house (according to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social) that makes 87,000 people.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Don’t forget that the National Party campaigned on getting rid of Te Aka Whai Ora, they fed anti reo Māori sentiment. Besides the Treaty Principles Bill, this govt has attacked Māori wards and cogovernance, is repealing section 7aa, and is generally, proactively working to make Māori lives harder.
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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Eru Kapa-Kingi, speaking at the hīkoi: “Pākehā mā, you should not fear Māori liberation. Because Māori liberation goes hand in hand with the liberation of all people who live in Aotearoa... Everyone gets a feed on this marae. No one gets left behind." #ToitūTeTiriti
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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Let's make it reach 200,000 before the hikoi leaves Waitangi Park. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...
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Stop the Treaty Principles Bill - TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!
In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This excellent piece sums up a great deal of what bugs me about the framing of "impartiality" in news media. Nevak Rogers takes leave to march with her whanau and it's news, but Soper and HDPA *use their actual media platform* to scorn the hikoi and that's different? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...
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Who gets to have an opinion on the hīkoi and who must remain ‘impartial’?
Newsrooms of old were apparently more impartial. But that’s only because everyone shared the same biases.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you haven’t signed the petition, do it now. It takes no time at all. It closes at midnight and will be delivered to parliament tomorrow. Send it to your mates, to your whānau. Make sure we’re all heard. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...
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Stop the Treaty Principles Bill - TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!
In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We’re going to have a baby in the house soon so we went and got boostrix. It’s recommended for everyone in the house to get it but unless you’re pregnant it’s $75 a head. Wtf, how are families supposed to afford this.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Anyone know where you can get Tino car flags in Tāmaki?
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
One time I was at an event overseas and it was pretty heavy and there was a beautiful haka at the end including the creators on stage and when one of the audience members asked what it meant the (Māori!!!) mod replied ‘it’s just something we do’ 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Watching a doco from the truth and reconciliation process in Canada is a stark contrast with the fauxpology weve just seen in Aotearoa. The same things happened here, the inquiry found a direct link from colonisation to state care to incarceration & our PM couldnt even give the survivors a whole day
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Interviewed Aaron Smale about being banned from an event where the government holds itself accountable for being too forceful in holding the government accountable www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawa...
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Abuse in care: Journalist barred from accountability event for holding people accountable
Mediawatch - An award-winning journalist dedicated to reporting abuse in state care was briefly banned from the official apology. Why? And what did he make of it?
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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 16/11/2024
This is the plan. They do want to dismantle Te Tiriti, but in the "normal" way.
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Julie McC @okahukura.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Proud to be part of the Sydney Hikoi in support of Te Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤
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Kelly O'Brien @oldandfullofpie.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ōtaki.
Young group holding a banner saying
Toitū te Tiriti. Ngā Hapū O Ōtaki Group at the Pare-o-Matangi Reserve with many Tino Rangatiratanga flying. (Flags)View from Rahui Road bridge.Rahui Road bridge with people flying Tino Rangatiratanga.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Over the past three years we’ve been able to offer free performing arts programs through Te Ara Toi - our creative spaces kaupapa. Over that time our kaiārahi Lou has delivered over 328 programs engaging 2000+ participants and even more whānau and audiences.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
the Haka has reached US discourse and I keep seeing it referred to as a 'war dance' and ... no that's grossly reductive, and part of a colonial pattern of reducing everything about Māori culture to violence. Please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAe...
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Once were gardeners - Moana Jackson on the scientific method and the 'warrior gene'
YouTube video by New Zealand Drug Foundation
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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another tusiata.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
And today, Hana-Rawhiti rose –

more than stood – she rose

like Nafanua, goddess of war

like Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of death

like the wahine toa who is exactly like herself

She rose from that place full of insects

and she tore that white bill –

white as the whites of her eyes

staring down the hulking enemy on the battlefield

She tore that white bill right through the backbone

tore it into two and she held it

one in each fist

like the two flags of war

like the twin battle-clubs only the war goddess holds

and she shook them in the faces of those

enemies with hearts as empty as their faces –
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This bill represents the most significant breach of Te Tiriti in modern times. Remember their names, every government MP who voted with their party today and didn’t stand up for their own conscience.
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Watch: Haka interrupts vote for the Treaty Principles Bill
As Opposition MPs and the public gallery stood to perform Ka Mate, Speaker Gerry Brownlee suspended the sitting.
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
file under; Images that go hard
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
@morgangodfery.bsky.social just read your piece with Gabriella Hirst in Art News, fascinating, stunning. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about gardens as a tool of colonisation, particularly the concept of a lawn. I’m not sure if Hana is here too, but thank you!
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
How do we get a park upgraded
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
One nice thing from the endless lockdown of 2021, was freesia season when I’d go on my stupid hamster wheel walk, see this stupid little cat and pick freesias
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Elizabeth S @irihapeta.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/30/j...
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Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
For months now, The Disinformation Project has been flagging that increasingly extreme disinformation harms are falling disproportionately on high profile wāhine Māori, especially as the election nears. Lots of people politely appreciate that information, but decline to take preventative action.
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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Sharing the triangle showing how sexist, homophobic, transphobic comments support violence, yet again. The same applies with racism, ableism and other forms of bigotry. We can change this and we must.
The triangle showing how sexist/homophobic/transphobic jokes etc support discrimination which in turn supports harassment, then violence.
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Today was an extremely bizarre today so for tomorrow I’m making everyone chicken soup. Don’t question it. 🥲
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Maddy @madicattt.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Mermaid/Sailor @ Kelly Tarltons Face Painter Talent Agent Assistant Arts Reviewer Blogger Actor Criminal Archivist Photocopier Data Entry Content & Digital Marketing Community Management SEO workshop facilitator Customer Relationships Manager Helped make 1000 Christmas crackers Gift wrapper
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