Ashlea Gillon Aramoana

Kia ora e hoa, thank you so much for the aroha and tautoko always, I am forever grateful for everyone on my tautoko team 😍

Kia ora e hoa, thanks for the recommendation! Always happy to koorero and connect too😀

a woman in a red jacket is singing into a microphone . ALT: a woman in a red jacket is singing into a microphone .

Which is why I would make the worst Matatini judge because everyone sounds and looks amazing 😭.. You win, and you win, and you win..

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I also wanna know why Te Matatini wasn't showing on every available screen on campus this week @aucklanduni.bsky.social

One, I'm jealous I was not blessed with musical abilities, two I have tino whaumau..

So many beautiful fat Māori men at Te Matatini and none of them talking to me for my mahi 😭😂..

A New Zealand mountain has been granted personhood. Here’s why that matters | CNN Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.

Taranaki Maunga is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The mountain, considered an ancestor by the Māori, now has all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

We went to the pools today for zee water walking and there was a massive swim meet on and pools at capacity lmao he tohu, kia haere ki te Moana..

Kia ora e hoa!! I appreciate the aroha and I am so glad it is finished 💕🤗

Naww thank you!! I'm grateful and glad it's done 🤗

So thrilled to share @ashleagee.bsky.social’s PhD. You’re an academic superstar!

Ahhhhh looks fiiiyyaaahhh 🥵🔥

a clean office desk. it has two computers some flowers, art, some white ones below.

Remade my office into an office and wiped my whiteboard clean of all my (mostly) completed summer jobs on the house 🙌🏼

I know it's my job and kaupapa to stay politically informed but holy fuck who would want to..

15km paihikara and kaukau yesterday.. Please just let me kaukau every day..

Wide angle sunrise with orange colored clouds reflected on a glassy beach.

Ata mārie BlueSky. This is sunrise for Friday, 17 January, from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Read our latest publication here ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...

It was written a while ago when there was more hope and positive change in our research sector but it is very relevant within the current climate we are working in

I don't know but the first person I would be going to if I was writing about how shit BMI is, would be a fat studies scholar 👀

Also, for anyone interested, my PhD is officially available online 🤗
researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstreams/a...

Ngā mihi matakuikui ki a koe i te raro i te kaupapa hauora o puoro! Please share this pānui for a project I’m leading ☺️ hosted by Tū Tama Wāhine o Taranaki and funded by HRC. We are doing a call for chapters on a Kaupapa Māori theories and practices book that aims to accelerate Māori wellbeing.

Kia ora Kia ora 🙋‍♀️..
I finally joined 🤗..