Karlo Mila
@karlomila.bsky.social
Angry at Facebook. Poet. PhD. Creator / Founder / Director / Facilitator of Mana Moana - an indigenous knowledge / decol leadership programme for Pacific peoples. Activist. Artist. Māmā. Former academic. Currently writing three books.
Good morning BlueSky a poem to break your heart and make you cry. Trigger warning: Suicide, Racism nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/05/26/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Evil Intensified’ by Karlo Mila
Trigger warning: suicide, racism This poem is offered in the spirit of fierce love, justice, historical accuracy and statistical clarity. It is offered at a time when: The latest UNICEF Innocenti R…
nzpoetryshelf.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Good morning BlueSky a poem to break your heart and make you cry. Trigger warning: Suicide, Racism nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/05/26/p...
Elite Brownies Fundraiser… 2mo $10 brownies, art, signed books and treats auction, April 1st, 4.30-7.30pm St Andrew’s on the Terrace church hall… Raising funds for 4 sexualised violence support services, Moana women MPs of the opposition and women harmed by racism. Come sugar-rush for good causes!
March 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Elite Brownies Fundraiser… 2mo $10 brownies, art, signed books and treats auction, April 1st, 4.30-7.30pm St Andrew’s on the Terrace church hall… Raising funds for 4 sexualised violence support services, Moana women MPs of the opposition and women harmed by racism. Come sugar-rush for good causes!
This is a great project!!!
March 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is a great project!!!
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Super important that we can understand the discursive techniques so that we can catch them - and if in an interview with him - can challenge him when he’s talking! It takes some training but rhetoric devices can be spotted and challenged in the moment. It’s powerful.
Understanding political ventriloquism | E-Tangata
“David Seymour creates a shadowy force controlling our society, when in reality being tangata Tiriti or tangata whenua is a simple recognition of historical fact — not a set of restrictions.” — Brian ...
e-tangata.co.nz
March 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Super important that we can understand the discursive techniques so that we can catch them - and if in an interview with him - can challenge him when he’s talking! It takes some training but rhetoric devices can be spotted and challenged in the moment. It’s powerful.
I’m so looking forward to this conversation 💜💜💜
Next Wednesday (26 March) I’ll be talking to @karlomila.bsky.social about “You Are Here” at Unity Books, Wellington. Please come along if you’re free at lunchtime!
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...
Join us in the shop to hear from Whiti Hereaka talk about her recent book, You Are Here with artwork by Peata Larkin, published by Massey University Press. Whiti will be chatting with poet Karlo Mila about the creation of this book and the process of weaving of words and art.
www.unitybooks.co.nz
March 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m so looking forward to this conversation 💜💜💜
Inclusion, respect, equality. Such terribly wide awake brains consider these. Nana naps… going back to sleep, numbing, dumbing, lobotomy material. It’s the revenge of the privileged feeling like they are not good enough even without their obvious advantages…
Just asking for one reporter to challenge these fuckers on their use of this childish language and to ask them why they think respect and inclusion within a multicultural society are bad things.
March 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Inclusion, respect, equality. Such terribly wide awake brains consider these. Nana naps… going back to sleep, numbing, dumbing, lobotomy material. It’s the revenge of the privileged feeling like they are not good enough even without their obvious advantages…
Grateful for a functioning judiciary
March 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Grateful for a functioning judiciary
Topped with imaginary marmite
March 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Topped with imaginary marmite
Reposted by Karlo Mila
Advice for our allegedly Christian PM.
When Jesus said
“Suffer the little children...”
he really didn’t mean
“Make the little children suffer”
Just saying.
#nzpol
When Jesus said
“Suffer the little children...”
he really didn’t mean
“Make the little children suffer”
Just saying.
#nzpol
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Advice for our allegedly Christian PM.
When Jesus said
“Suffer the little children...”
he really didn’t mean
“Make the little children suffer”
Just saying.
#nzpol
When Jesus said
“Suffer the little children...”
he really didn’t mean
“Make the little children suffer”
Just saying.
#nzpol
“All these fools, however, find other fools who will vote them in.” 😂😂😂
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“All these fools, however, find other fools who will vote them in.” 😂😂😂
He has no idea of how much families are struggling under his watch. “Let them eat cake.” This man only knows privilege and doesn’t even know his own privilege.
March 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
He has no idea of how much families are struggling under his watch. “Let them eat cake.” This man only knows privilege and doesn’t even know his own privilege.
Whoa. Thank you Tory ❤️
This report shows Wellington Water has had poor procurement processes, potential for fraud, & a lack of value for money. I'm deeply disturbed by these findings. It is unacceptable ratepayers have potentially been ripped off by WWL & its contractors. 🧵1/4
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605... #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605... #nzpol
Reports reveal Wellington Water paying three times more than necessary for pipe work
Ministers, mayors, briefed on inflated costs and weak financial oversight after blistering report lays bare how Wellington ratepayers have been stung.
www.thepost.co.nz
March 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Whoa. Thank you Tory ❤️
Palau and Marshall Islands vote with the U.S. :( This is why Tino Rangatiratanga in Moana-Nui is so important.
March 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Palau and Marshall Islands vote with the U.S. :( This is why Tino Rangatiratanga in Moana-Nui is so important.
“Nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”James Baldwin
March 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”James Baldwin
Lolz!
March 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Lolz!
Aargh. Whakamaa Aotearoa.
NZ fishing industry mouthpiece (sorry, I meant govt) refused to give @greenpeace.org.nz the coords of where a bottom trawler dredged up corals (a sign it was fishing on seamounts) on the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman.
... so the Australians gave it to them 😂 #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
... so the Australians gave it to them 😂 #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Greenpeace obtains coordinates of coral destruction NZ Government refused to reveal - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The New Zealand government is refusing to release details of the location a New Zealand bottom trawler hauled up deep sea coral late last year, despite Greenpeace offering to go and survey the site.
www.greenpeace.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Aargh. Whakamaa Aotearoa.
I hope we stand and hold.
March 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I hope we stand and hold.
None of my playlists work for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
None of my playlists work for these times.
This is how I feel about the U.S.
February 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is how I feel about the U.S.
pmn.co.nz/read/politic... So proud of Tongan horse power supporting and uphold Te Tiriti 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴 Mate Ma’a Te Tiriti!!! #pacificcousins
Tongan advocates brutally condemn Treaty Principles Bill
Tongan community leaders have strongly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, saying it threatens Māori sovereignty and repeats colonial injustices seen across the Pacific.
pmn.co.nz
February 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
pmn.co.nz/read/politic... So proud of Tongan horse power supporting and uphold Te Tiriti 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴 Mate Ma’a Te Tiriti!!! #pacificcousins
I’ll be using this word! We need the language!
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’ll be using this word! We need the language!