ABSTRACT
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku had titled her section ‘Maori and Lesbian: My View’ and she expands on these two strong elements in her experience. At thirty-three she lives, with her two cats (Pingao and Shiro), in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is ‘serene and settled in multi-racial monogamy, with my sapphic muse’. A researcher and writer by preference, she nevertheless lectures in the Continuing Education Centre at Waikato University. She belongs to the Te Whenua Women’s Collective and Mana Wahine Maori. Among her many papers are ‘Lesbian/Separatist: Some thoughts for Maori Women’ and ‘Maori Women and The Environment’ (New Zealand Environment, Autumn, 1982).
