Abstract
To say that Teresia Teaiwa has profoundly influenced our thinking and practice as Pacific scholars and writers is an understatement. We knew her as a teacher and as a supervisor, and we continue to know her through our ongoing study and teaching of her work. In knowing her, Teresia gave us many instructions, respectively in our interactions with her and through her scholarship, poetry, and activist work.
In the following dialogue, we consider Teresia’s work in the Pacific but especially in Aotearoa New Zealand where we reside as two Pacific women: one wahine Hawai‘i living on the lands of Te Kawerau ā Maki and working on the lands of Ngāti Whātua in Tāmaki Makaurau; and the other, a va‘ine Māori on Kāi Tahu lands in Ōtepoti, Te Waipounamu.