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.
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...
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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
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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...
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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
www.lse.ac.uk
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...
www.tandfonline.com
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.
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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...
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it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
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If you are in Wellington on 14 October, a new edition of my book 'The Meeting Place' is being launched at the Royal Society Te Apārangi, with Hon. Justice Sir Joe Williams speaking. @bwbnz.bsky.social @royalsocietynz.bsky.social
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September 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
If you are in Wellington on 14 October, a new edition of my book 'The Meeting Place' is being launched at the Royal Society Te Apārangi, with Hon. Justice Sir Joe Williams speaking. @bwbnz.bsky.social @royalsocietynz.bsky.social
www.bwb.co.nz/events/bwb-t...
www.bwb.co.nz/events/bwb-t...
Exciting about being on the organising crew for the open-access, virtual Te Tiriti based futures + Antiracism 21-26th March 2026. Check out the draft programme. Registrations open later in the year.
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Exciting about being on the organising crew for the open-access, virtual Te Tiriti based futures + Antiracism 21-26th March 2026. Check out the draft programme. Registrations open later in the year.
Another chance to come to a public Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop.
September 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Another chance to come to a public Critical Tiriti Analysis workshop.
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Plain language is important for many New Zealanders - please consider signing: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
Stop the repeal of the Plain Language Act 2022
Aotearoa should be a place where people are encouraged and supported by their government to engage in democratic processes. Where usage of plain language in documents is encouraged, and people have th...
our.actionstation.org.nz
September 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Plain language is important for many New Zealanders - please consider signing: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
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Looking forward to Dominic O'Sullivan's visit and public lecture on his forthcoming book in October. Dom is an advisor on our Royal Society Te Apārangi Honourable Kāwanatanga research project. vuw.zoom.us/j/95918756505
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Looking forward to Dominic O'Sullivan's visit and public lecture on his forthcoming book in October. Dom is an advisor on our Royal Society Te Apārangi Honourable Kāwanatanga research project. vuw.zoom.us/j/95918756505