Reimaging Anti-Racism for the Health Sector
This was a Marsden funded research project that explored Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti perspectives on anti-racism in health. The research was led by Prof Jacquie Kidd, Dr Heather Came, and Prof Tim McCreanor. I was invited to scribe a wānanga that brought together the thinking that emerged from previous caucused wānanga, then later produce illustrations that summarised the research project (see below).
SOME WORDS FROM THE RESEARCH TEAM:
“Jacqui worked with us right through our anti-racism project, recording our hui and representing our discussions in ways that allowed us to make sense of some very complex conversations. Her initial work was invaluable for capturing our themes. As the project evolved, she supported us to find rich and meaningful ways of presenting diverse, even contradictory ideas that came out of our research. Her professionalism, empathy and skill are gifts that have elevated our final outcomes immeasurably.”
Professor Jacquie Kidd, Ngāpuhi
AUT
Towards the end of the research project I was then commissioned to create an image that drew together their diverse areas of research into a cohesive image that summarised the research project as a whole (right). Rather than asserting one theory for anti-racism in the health sector, it highlighted that multitude of ways of disrupting racism that depend on who you are: Tangata Whenua, Tangata Tiriti, Pasefika or Tauiwi of colour. I worked with the research team to work through a range of visual metaphors that could hold all these interrelating ideas. In the end the team chose the figure of a koru, made up of numerous smaller koru, or pathways leading to a shared vision of flourishing whānau and communities.
I also had the pleasure of creating summary illustrations for the doctoral thesis of Ngaire Rae on Tiriti-based anti-racism praxis (below left), and the masters thesis of Haidee Rēnata which focused on Hauora Kaupapa Māori (below right).
