Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Te Whare Takatāpui is a health framework developed by Elizabeth Kerekere (2023) to envision a positive future for Māori of diverse genders, sexualities and sex characteristics (takatāpui). Te Whare Takatāpui includes the six concepts of whakapapa, wairua, mouri , mana, tapu, tikanga. In this Kaupapa Māori visual autoethnography, using layered photographs, I explore how I engage with each of these aspects of the framework, through everyday practices that promote my health and wellbeing as a takatāpui person. My engagement with Te Whare Takatāpui provides an example of the power we can harness to affect both individual and collective healing in a context of decolonisation: to weave ourselves back together.
DOI: 10.63146/001c.143405
Author: ia Morrison-Young
Institutions: Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413298877