Hana Pera Aoake

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Hinerangi me Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Waewae, Kaati Mamoe, Waitaha) is a writer and artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. Their work is concerned with realising Indigenous sovereignty through the body, and through the whenua — the land. Their first book, a collection of political and poetic texts titled A bathful of kawakawa and hot water, painted a radical, tender vision for an anti-capitalist, de-colonial future for Aotearoa and beyond.