Dr Heather Came
@heathercame.bsky.social
Activist scholar at large.
Director/ founder Heather Came & Associates.
Advocate Tiriti and racial justice.
Passionate about public health, community and craft.
Director/ founder Heather Came & Associates.
Advocate Tiriti and racial justice.
Passionate about public health, community and craft.
Clive Aspin & myself are co-ordinating a special issue of Sites focusing on Dimensions of Honourable Kāwanatanga. We are keen to hear others perspective on this kaupapa - we are intentionally looking to the future but with a critical awareness of past dishonourable practice.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Clive Aspin & myself are co-ordinating a special issue of Sites focusing on Dimensions of Honourable Kāwanatanga. We are keen to hear others perspective on this kaupapa - we are intentionally looking to the future but with a critical awareness of past dishonourable practice.
Still a chance to register for our HC & A annual antiracism people leaders wānanga. Come join us for some holistic professional development to start the new year. Check out this blog about last years one. tinyurl.com/ypauhkn3
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Still a chance to register for our HC & A annual antiracism people leaders wānanga. Come join us for some holistic professional development to start the new year. Check out this blog about last years one. tinyurl.com/ypauhkn3
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Hey cis fam have a read about what’s happening. Think how you can support trans folks in your life, in particular young ones and their whānau patha.nz/news
NEWS | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
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November 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hey cis fam have a read about what’s happening. Think how you can support trans folks in your life, in particular young ones and their whānau patha.nz/news
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
A minor tweak of the dates and a new co-facilitator to add into the mix. Lock it into your diary now for a 2026 treat. Restorative, radical gathering of crones, and crones in training. Fundraiser for the Kotare Centre for Social Change.
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A minor tweak of the dates and a new co-facilitator to add into the mix. Lock it into your diary now for a 2026 treat. Restorative, radical gathering of crones, and crones in training. Fundraiser for the Kotare Centre for Social Change.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
New paper out about Māori experiences of working for the Crown led by Zoe Tipa.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
https://www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding-the-line-māori-public-servants-navigating-crown-spaces
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
New paper out about Māori experiences of working for the Crown led by Zoe Tipa.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/holding...
We are offering an extention until the end of the year for organisations wanting to submit an abstract to share their Te Tiriti journey as part of our Honourable Kawanatanga themed associated event at Te Tiriti based Futures + Antiracism. Get those abstracts in.
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We are offering an extention until the end of the year for organisations wanting to submit an abstract to share their Te Tiriti journey as part of our Honourable Kawanatanga themed associated event at Te Tiriti based Futures + Antiracism. Get those abstracts in.
A chance to attend an on-line Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop if anyone is keen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A chance to attend an on-line Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop if anyone is keen.
Any one fancy a hikoi for a good kaupapa?
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Any one fancy a hikoi for a good kaupapa?
Looking forward to this final gig of the year with Grant Berghan for our friends at Te Whāriki o te Ara Oranga. A chance to kōrero about honourable kāwanatanga and share some hope and light.
whariki-ao.nz/matapiata-pu...
whariki-ao.nz/matapiata-pu...
Matapiata | Pursuing honourable kāwanatanga: a tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti perspective - Whariki
As 2025 draws to a close, Whāriki is honoured to welcome Dr. Heather Came and Grant Berghan to help us round out the political year with depth, reflection, and hope.
whariki-ao.nz
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Looking forward to this final gig of the year with Grant Berghan for our friends at Te Whāriki o te Ara Oranga. A chance to kōrero about honourable kāwanatanga and share some hope and light.
whariki-ao.nz/matapiata-pu...
whariki-ao.nz/matapiata-pu...
Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983 - Mawson - Journal of Religious History - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the m...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983 - Mawson - Journal of Religious History - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Māori academic warns draft curriculum erases children's rights to local histories
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Māori academic warns draft curriculum erases children's rights to local histories
"Every child has a right to know whose land they stand on."
www.rnz.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Māori academic warns draft curriculum erases children's rights to local histories
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
An opportunity to contribute to a Global South focussed book on Honourable kawanatanga, relationships between "the Crown" and Indigenous peoples, and decolonisation. More details below.
Honourable Kāwanatanga and the Work of Decolonisation: A Call to Contribute
Every so often a kaupapa comes along that feels both timely and timeless — that asks us to pause, to reflect, and to imagine better futures. The new edited collection Decolonisation and Kāwanatanga: I...
https://www.heathercameassociates.com/post/honourable-kāwanatanga-and-the-work-of-decolonisation-a-call-to-contribute
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
An opportunity to contribute to a Global South focussed book on Honourable kawanatanga, relationships between "the Crown" and Indigenous peoples, and decolonisation. More details below.
Got some work that needs to be written up for academic publication, have half-finished papers tucked under your bed. Come join us to dymystify academic publication, whip up an abstract or two, write a writing plan/strategy...
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got some work that needs to be written up for academic publication, have half-finished papers tucked under your bed. Come join us to dymystify academic publication, whip up an abstract or two, write a writing plan/strategy...
Always a good time to be in the union
The current Government wilfully spreads misinfo about unions despite being well aware unions are the collective voice of workers that rebalance the scales so that people in work are protected from exploitation and harm.
It’s a good time to join one. #nzpol
I’m retired but I’m a solidarity member.
It’s a good time to join one. #nzpol
I’m retired but I’m a solidarity member.
Find Your Union - NZCTU
Want to know what union you can belong to? Use our Find Your Union tool that covers over 350,000 working people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
union.org.nz
October 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Always a good time to be in the union
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Love to see this from @crdjustice.bsky.social highlighting DisCrit. This work was born out of making the experiences of disabled Youth of Color-with racism, ableism & resistance-the center of my work. I am so honored to see others take it up. Thank you Center for Racial and Disability Justice!
DisCrit examines how racism & ableism intersect to shape systems of power that marginalize disabled people of color. It challenges “normalcy” & calls for collective action toward justice. Check out the video, one-pager, & other resources at crdjustice.org. Created by summer intern Mary Yoon. [1/13]
October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Love to see this from @crdjustice.bsky.social highlighting DisCrit. This work was born out of making the experiences of disabled Youth of Color-with racism, ableism & resistance-the center of my work. I am so honored to see others take it up. Thank you Center for Racial and Disability Justice!
We are on the move. Anyone want to buy our whare - great neighbours, lots of room, great views.
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Trade Me
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October 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
We are on the move. Anyone want to buy our whare - great neighbours, lots of room, great views.
www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...
www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...
STIR has just submitted our latest shadow report to the United Nations CERD reporting cycle. Nothing to celebrate here in terms of Tiriti and racial justice.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/reflect...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/reflect...
Reflections from STIR’s Shadow Report to CERD: When the Crown steps away fromTiriti and racial justice
It has been more than a decade since we formed STIR – Stop Institutional Racism, a collective of public-health practitioners, scholars, and activists committed to ending racism in the health systems m...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
STIR has just submitted our latest shadow report to the United Nations CERD reporting cycle. Nothing to celebrate here in terms of Tiriti and racial justice.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/reflect...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/reflect...
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If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
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October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Annabel Fahkri has been doing some fascinating work applying Critical Tiriti Analysis in curriculum development. Come join us in another captivating community of practice. #CriticalTiritiAnalysis
October 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Annabel Fahkri has been doing some fascinating work applying Critical Tiriti Analysis in curriculum development. Come join us in another captivating community of practice. #CriticalTiritiAnalysis
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Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.
Go these good people #decolonisingtheacademy Full article: Mātai ako: Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mātai ako: Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching
This article examines initiatives within the College of Health at Massey University to embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching. Situated within broader strategies, it focuses on the Māt...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Go these good people #decolonisingtheacademy Full article: Mātai ako: Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are on the wrong side of history NZ.
September 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We are on the wrong side of history NZ.
New Discursive Tiriti Analysis paper out in Ethnicities critiquing the 2024 Needs based service provision Cabinet Circular You can guess how that went... with Dominic O'Sullivan, Grant Bergan & Tim McCreanor Holding steady on the intellectual frontline.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/a-tirit...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/a-tirit...
A Tiriti-Based Critique of the 2024 Needs based service provision Cabinet Circular
In late 2024, the Coalition Government issued Cabinet Circular CO (24)5, directing that public services should be prioritised “on the basis of need, not race.” At first glance this framing may appear ...
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September 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New Discursive Tiriti Analysis paper out in Ethnicities critiquing the 2024 Needs based service provision Cabinet Circular You can guess how that went... with Dominic O'Sullivan, Grant Bergan & Tim McCreanor Holding steady on the intellectual frontline.
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/a-tirit...
www.heathercameassociates.com/post/a-tirit...