So you've been burgled...
Moata goes on a mental and emotional journey after a home burglary.
The opinionist by Moata Tamaira
Random thoughts, witterings and notes on modern life
Latest posts
Mārama: The horrors of colonisation (in a crinoline)
Confronting, bloody, and brilliant - Moata shares her thoughts on new horror film, Mārama.
Going to movies by yourself is awesome, actually
Wherein Moata makes the case that a trip to the movie theatre as a solo activity might be the optimum way of doing it.
Happy flippin' new year
Moata gets weirdly inspired by cutesy chalk art and remembers that she has an email newsletter!
It's poetry if I say it is
On National Poetry Day Moata mines some poetry-adjacent scribblings from her small herd of notebooks.
A tale of two high-fives
If someone doesn't want to high-five you maybe just be cool about it?
Little treats: Highlights from my camera roll and other not terrible things
Just a post of fun stuff (and too many footnotes)!
If you steal my sunshine
Finding joy is bloody hard in the current climate, but that only makes it more important to look for it everywhere.
The 12 things of Christmas
Moata expunges her Christmas to-do list in the form of a sweary twelve days of Christmas parody. It's just that kind of week.
Tēnei te tangata
It's the haka heard around the world but why does it resonate so much with people outside of Aotearoa New Zealand?
A Woman of Substance
Things get messy in more ways than one in Coralie Fargeat's feminist body horror.
Who's a plastic Māori?
How Māori is Māori enough? The answer is... this question is a bad one.
Fuck yeah, it's bird rating time
Down with cynicism, up with the native bird of my choosing! It's our wholesome moment in the sun, Aotearoans. IT'S BIRD OF THE YEAR, BABY.
That terrible day
Moata recounts the events of 15 March 2019 as she experienced them (i.e. from the outside).
Well, this sucks
The latest NACT government fuckery and why you should be worried.