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.
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Choosing My Recovery (part 1/3)
The MRI scan had shown the brain tumour, now she needed urgent surgery. Melanie shares her story.
Chronic Pain vs Writing and Wellness
Tabatha Wood and writing as a tool for health, healing and wellness.
Culture of Retirement
Catherine Delahunty on the invisibility of older women in Pākehā culture.
How Māori Are You?
Melanie shares what it feels like to be asked “How Much Māori Are You?”
Māori Scorecard
Ataria explores identity, colonisation and whakapapa in a collection of three poems
I Am Not My Anger
Rmt-Wi shares why the darkness, the judgement, the colonisation, the broken promises and the anger does not change who she is
The Anti-Domestic Goddess Manifesto
Don’t want to be a housewife? Don’t like cleaning, ironing, shopping? Have your guilt revoked here
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
When I was 18, I wrote about what kind of relationship I wanted. I still re-visit that old blog post, and I find that I still want the same things
Breathing Life into Writing
An introduction to Irihipeti, her writing and her first article for Awa Wahine
Manifesting the Best Life from Te Kore
Realise your personal potential through Te Kore by Hana Tapiata