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Advertise with NZME.In honour of International Women's Day, we take a look back at some of the incredible women we've featured over the years and their inspiring words of wisdom
TAYI TIBBLE, poet
“Both young women and Maori are particularly conditioned to believe they must be very humble, overly grateful and gracious, unassuming, and self-deprecating. I’m critical about why they might be dispositioned to feel this way and I remind myself that a patriarchal Pakeha society is dependent on women and people of colour feeling held-back and inferior.
I’m really big on the power of representation, so the more I think young women get to see other young women out there doing their bad girl thing, the more likely it is that they will be able to see their own opportunities.”
READ: Melinda Williams talks to Tayi
Photo / Mark Mitchell
