Beth Awatere

Contributing Writer

Beth Awatere (she/they) (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a queer, disability rights advocate based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She grew up in the Middle East and spent their final years at high school travelling through Europe on a student exchange. Beth has a law and international politics conjoint degree from the University of Auckland, where they worked on several equity groups like the Equal Justice Project, Te Rākau Ture and the Mooting Society. Her recent mahi includes the Deepen* kaupapa in partnership with Auckland Pride and the Taera campaign for sex education reform on behalf of Rainbow Law.

A vintage suitcase is filled with sunblock, sunglasses, a map, hot chips, medicine and a red hot water bottle. The background is a sandy beach with sparkling water.

Eat, pray, love and medicate: A chronically-ill backpacker's odyssey

Travel is just supposed to be about white sandy beaches, wandering through a city's old town and working your way through the lonely planet guidebook… right?

ByBeth Awatere

People Read

A collage of images of the activations and content for Deepen* including table settings, faces and hands against a backdrop of a sign reading 'Disabled people for black lives matter'.

Articulating Deepen* - An invitation to take up space in a new way

What does deepening our relationship with disability and queerness look like? For us it meant access frameworks, heart wrenching poetry and a lot of good food.

ByBeth Awatere

Deepen*Read

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Queer tī with Aunty Hu

The Aunty with the Queer tea and kōrero pūrākau you never knew you needed.

ByBeth Awatere

Deepen*Listen

The back of a person with long red hair, among a collage of Pride imagery - including rainbow flags and people in love.

What kind of queer person doesn’t like Pride month?

For most people Pride month is a place of joy and celebration, a place to revel in the complexity of the queer identity. But for me? It's a sensory nightmare.

ByBeth Awatere

Deepen*Read

Noēlle is a young Māori wahine and wears a green ponamu, and Dr Huhana wears glasses and tāmoko. Their faces are pictured in front of an abstract green background.

Fear, love, metal ceilings and fighting for your rights: A tuakana-teina kōrero with Dr Huhana Hickey and Noēll Ratapu

Self-described trouble maker, lawyer, artist Dr Huhana Hickey and digital artist and activist Noēll Ratapu discuss fear, love, your rights and everything in between.

ByBeth Awatere

Deepen*Listen

Introducing our Deepen* artists

Our six artists are working on a collection of activations, recorded kōrero, spoken poetry and photo essays which explore how queerness and disability intersect.

ByBeth Awatere

Deepen*Read