Self Portrait with Friend
Poet Dani Yourukova responds to Daisy Tinney's photography in Te Papa collections.
Poetry
Gender and sexuality is a dialogue between us and the world, the culture, the community we inhabit. Poetry plays with form and potential, expressing nuance everyday normative language may fail to capture. Explore these works from poets from the LGBTQI+ community inspired by taonga in Te Papa collections.
Ring fishing
“I don’t know why I’m drawn to this object so much, but a silver ring fished out of your womb feels romantic.”
Vanessa Mei Crofskey offers personal reflections inspired by a Chinese intrauterine device (IUD) in Te Papa’s History Collection.
Poem: hands on stomach lizard body
Poet essa may ranapiri responds to three pou kātua (stockade post figure) in our collection.
Brey Kin Hearts and building backbones
Rex Letoa is a Sāmoan/French fa‘atama poet. A keen observer of the world around him, as well as the world inside of him. His poetry and storytelling act as a wayfinding tool back to his cultural and gender identity.
Holy homoerotica, Batman!
‘We all wear masks.’ Poet Chris Tse looks into the hidden (and not-so-hidden) subtexts of comic books, and shares the role superheroes – particularly Catwoman in Batman Returns – played in his own journey.