Spirituality plays a significant role in the Pasifika community. It encompasses the people and cultures of the Pacific Islands. Pasifika spirituality is deeply rooted in our traditional beliefs, practices, and cultural values, often blending indigenous customs with more recently introduced religious influences, such as Christianity.
Read MoreWhen you think of Tahiti, you probably imagine beautiful black-sand beaches, ripe and ready coconuts, and smiling women with flowers behind their ears and colourful sarongs wrapped around their waists. This is not the Tahiti I know.
Read MoreFor this issue, I talked to some of my Pasifika peeps who resided in halls last year about the good, the bad, and all the terrible catering in between. Below are some of their comments on their experiences living in the halls.
Read MoreVigorous, energetic, and mobile. That is Pasifika people. We were born with the strength to be active on our lands and in our oceans; to harvest for our families, for our communities, and our villages. The people of the Pasifika are people born with a sense of activeness.
Read MoreOur culture of partying evolves from before we hit our teens. We spend our childhoods seeing our families party. We go to birthday parties, funerals, and weddings of family friends that we don’t even know.
Read MoreMy family has a saying: “God, family, sport—in that order.” Our three pillars which ground us and nourish the Va for a shared success beyond our own interest.
Read MoreIn the beginning, there was darkness. Only the hushed whisper of my cousin’s voice filled the room. There was an essence of fear when they spoke.
Read MorePoem by Teherenui Koteka (she/her)
Read MoreThe world has changed rapidly since 2014’s Tumblr thigh-gap era. Victoria Beckham recently recalled a conversation she had with her daughter and stated that “it’s an old-fashioned attitude, wanting to be really thin.”
Read MoreIndigenious peoples conceive and manage their livelihoods in harmony with nature and in accordance with agro-ecological conservation, natural resources sustainable management, climate change adaptation, and mitigation practices.
Read MoreThe landscape of Aotearoa as it stands today, is one that is still inequitable, still racist, still a breach of rights.
Read MoreWe are all guilty of mindlessly scrolling, letting the media, our environments, our family, our friends, our uni lectures dictate how we feel.
Read MorePowerful poem By Josie Mailisi
Read MoreRemittances are transferred funds between individuals across borders.
Read MoreLife changes. Embrace it.
Read MoreThe era of digitisation is upon us, and everyone’s racing to get the competitive advantage. Businesses are moving into automation, university is now completely available online.
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