Archive

Every issue of Awa Wahine is created to be held, revisited, and shared.

With each new edition, we open one piece from the previous issue to everyone. This archive also holds years of essays, reflections, interviews, and stories from the pages of Awa Wahine.

Begin anywhere.

Jessica Maclean 12/12/2021 Jessica Maclean 12/12/2021

Goddesses and Grandmothers

Jessica Maclean recounts pūrākau, kōrero tuku iho and reflects on tūpuna wahine.

Shardae Grenfell 06/07/2020 Shardae Grenfell 06/07/2020

Always More

Shardae Grenfell on her māreikura.

Aramoana 15/06/2020 Aramoana 15/06/2020

Whenua Narratives

Aramoana and connecting to the stories of her ancestors through the whenua.

Abby Hauraki 15/06/2020 Abby Hauraki 15/06/2020

Daughters of Displacement

and our grandmothers couldn’t teach us consent… because they never gave it…

Michelle Mihi Keita Tibble 14/06/2020 Michelle Mihi Keita Tibble 14/06/2020

Hinekura

The first chapter of the novel Hinekura by Michelle Mihi Keita Tibble.

Catherine Delahunty 14/06/2020 Catherine Delahunty 14/06/2020

Culture of Retirement

Catherine Delahunty on the invisibility of older women in Pākehā culture.