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.
Watching You, Seeing Me
Cassie Harts shares an emotional insight into her experiences as a woman and a mother.
Journey to a Half-Assed Revelation
Trigger Warning: Content in this piece contains references to rape and incest.
A poem about a childhood stolen through sexual violence.
Postnatal Depression
Melanie shares her heart wrenching story of post-natal depression after the birth of her fourth child - her baby boy.
Insecure AF
Number one question/comment/statement I get from people who know me but don't KNOW ME. "How'd you get so confident/I love your confidence?”
When I Was Thirteen
Suzanne revisits thirteen and the realisation that who she is, might not be the who society wants her to be.
Choosing My Recovery (part 1/3)
The MRI scan had shown the brain tumour, now she needed urgent surgery. Melanie shares her story.
A Period, Not A Pause
Every month I am reminded - I am a Goddess, a crusader with a crimson cape
If You're From Waimana, Why Are You White?
Kahu on the intersection of being Māori and Pākeha in Aotearoa

