Ashlea Gillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 235117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashlea Gillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashlea |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillon |
| SIGNATURE | GILLON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5567-6305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous(ly) fat, fat(ly) Indigenous
A seen body causes memories to flow, memories to flow.This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what ha...
My body feels fucking great during sex: Fat, Wāhine, Māori and sex(uality) - a Kōrero of sovereignty, desirability, deservedness, and pleasure
As Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori have rich expressions of sex(uality); we see this in our whakapapa, our ancestry, and the pūrākau of Hinenuitepō, one of the most powerful Māori deities, ancestors, and wāhine of Te Ao Māori. Hinenuitepō is a guide and a guardian of us, particularly as we move from Te Ao Mārama, the world of light, to Te Pō and Rarohenga, the world of night and the underworld. However, often colonial, gendered …
What does body sovereignty mean to you? Decolonising the body: Pūrākau as method(ology)
Ka mua, ka muri—When I Was and When I Am
Kia ora e hoa, wishing wellness and vitality, to you, dear friend. This piece is a window into the realities of being a fat Māori girl and woman. It offers insights into the sense making, intimacies, and intricacies of being a fat Māori girl, and now woman. This piece is whakapapa, the layering of genealogy, of thought, of realities, of experiences, of identities. It offers a glimpse into a time of whakapapa, of how I have made sense of my world …
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against Covid-19: Findings from a international online exploratory survey
This short report presents the findings of an online survey of self-identified fat people in eight countries identified as having guidelines for the use of long needles in SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes. The survey captures fat people’s understanding of the need for, and knowledge about the use of, a long needle when being vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings identified a knowledge gap amongst fat people about…
Te Tapatoru: A model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing
Whanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisations and practitioners have had limited guidance to reflect on whanaungatanga with young Māori in ways that support rangatahi wellbeing and aspirations. As part of a broader photo‐elicitation project on whanaungatanga wi…
You’re the One That Was on Uncle’s Wall!”: Identity, Whanaungatanga and Connection for Takatāpui (LGBTQ+ Māori)
Takatāpui (Māori LGBTIQ+) challenge static notions of relationality and belonging or whanaungatanga for Māori. Explorations of Māori and LGBTIQ+ identity can often polarise experiences of family as either nurturing spaces or sites comprised of actors of spiritual and physical violence. However, such framing ignores the ways in which cultural practices for establishing relationality for takatāpui extend beyond dichotomies of disconnection or conne…
Why would you give your children to something you don’t trust?’: Rangatahi health and social services and the pursuit of tino rangatiratanga
Persistent health inequities between rangatahi Māori (Indigenous young people) and other young people within Aotearoa New Zealand are incurred by a colonial machinery of institutions, service systems and sociocultural contexts that facilitates the marginalisation of Māori. Despite a skilled and dedicated Māori workforce, current service contexts severely limit the innovation of Māori practitioners working from a basis of mātauranga Māori (Māori w…
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Covid-19 and Indigenous resilience
© 2020 HERDSA. As a collective, we reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted Indigenous students at a personal, institutional and national level in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
Growing the fleet–A Māori re-search-teina’s perspective on Māori and Pasifika re-search relationality
He Vaka Moana is a strengths-based project framed by oceanic principles and methodologies that connect us as Mori and Pasifika to the ocean. The underpinning kaupapa and theoretical framework of He Vaka Moana is the Tongan proverb "pikipiki hama kae vaevae manava", which refers to our individual vaka coming together to support each other as we navigate the moana. He Vaka Moana operates through tukana-tina relationships, with Mori, Pasifika and Pk…
Body Sovereignty and Te Matatini
This commentary explores the ways in which body sovereignty has been illustrated and supported in the sovereign space of Te Matatini (Ki Te Ao).It is suggested that the 2019 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao Kapa Haka Finals were a space that privileged Te Ao Mäori and body sovereignty in multiple, intersecting ways.I propose that sovereign spaces such as Te Matatini provide an alternative illustration, discourse and narrative to current coloniality that rest…
Māori experiences of bariatric surgery in South Auckland, New Zealand
Access to publicly funded bariatric surgery in New Zealand is limited, but privileges patients who identify as New Zealand European or Other European. This example of institutional racism in the New Zealand health system further reiterates that Māori face inequitable access to gold standard medical interventions. This article analyses semi-structured interviews undertaken with Māori who had bariatric surgery at Counties Manukau Health which house…
Fat Indigenous Bodies and Body Sovereignty: An Exploration of Re-presentations
This article explores re-representations of fat Indigenous bodies and subsequently the ways in which access becomes restricted through multiple systems of oppression and biopower. I suggest a move away from body positivity movements in favour of body sovereignty as a response to racism, sexism, fatism and biopolitics. While body sovereignty and Indigenous sovereignty are not mutually exclusive, and body sovereignty is not a new phenomenon in Indi…
Oh, you don’t look Māori: Socially assigned ethnicity
This paper discusses experiences of Mori who self-report that they are socially assigned as Pkeh and explores these experiences in relation to Mori identity and colonisation. Utilising Kaupapa Mori theory, methodology and methods, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 10 participants. Three interrelated themes were identified through a thematic analysis: claims of identity, challenges to identity and reinforcement of identity. The theme…
Te Tapatoru: A model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing
Whanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisations and practitioners have had limited guidance to reflect on whanaungatanga with young Māori in ways that support rangatahi wellbeing and aspirations. As part of a broader photo‐elicitation project on whanaungatanga wi…
Fat Indigenous Bodies and Body Sovereignty: An Exploration of Re-presentations
This article explores re-representations of fat Indigenous bodies and subsequently the ways in which access becomes restricted through multiple systems of oppression and biopower. I suggest a move away from body positivity movements in favour of body sovereignty as a response to racism, sexism, fatism and biopolitics. While body sovereignty and Indigenous sovereignty are not mutually exclusive, and body sovereignty is not a new phenomenon in Indi…
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Why would you give your children to something you don’t trust?’: Rangatahi health and social services and the pursuit of tino rangatiratanga
Persistent health inequities between rangatahi Māori (Indigenous young people) and other young people within Aotearoa New Zealand are incurred by a colonial machinery of institutions, service systems and sociocultural contexts that facilitates the marginalisation of Māori. Despite a skilled and dedicated Māori workforce, current service contexts severely limit the innovation of Māori practitioners working from a basis of mātauranga Māori (Māori w…
Oh, you don’t look Māori: Socially assigned ethnicity
This paper discusses experiences of Mori who self-report that they are socially assigned as Pkeh and explores these experiences in relation to Mori identity and colonisation. Utilising Kaupapa Mori theory, methodology and methods, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 10 participants. Three interrelated themes were identified through a thematic analysis: claims of identity, challenges to identity and reinforcement of identity. The theme…
My body feels fucking great during sex: Fat, Wāhine, Māori and sex(uality) - a Kōrero of sovereignty, desirability, deservedness, and pleasure
As Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori have rich expressions of sex(uality); we see this in our whakapapa, our ancestry, and the pūrākau of Hinenuitepō, one of the most powerful Māori deities, ancestors, and wāhine of Te Ao Māori. Hinenuitepō is a guide and a guardian of us, particularly as we move from Te Ao Mārama, the world of light, to Te Pō and Rarohenga, the world of night and the underworld. However, often colonial, gendered …
You’re the One That Was on Uncle’s Wall!”: Identity, Whanaungatanga and Connection for Takatāpui (LGBTQ+ Māori)
Takatāpui (Māori LGBTIQ+) challenge static notions of relationality and belonging or whanaungatanga for Māori. Explorations of Māori and LGBTIQ+ identity can often polarise experiences of family as either nurturing spaces or sites comprised of actors of spiritual and physical violence. However, such framing ignores the ways in which cultural practices for establishing relationality for takatāpui extend beyond dichotomies of disconnection or conne…
Oh, you don’t look Māori: Socially assigned ethnicity
This paper discusses experiences of Mori who self-report that they are socially assigned as Pkeh and explores these experiences in relation to Mori identity and colonisation. Utilising Kaupapa Mori theory, methodology and methods, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 10 participants. Three interrelated themes were identified through a thematic analysis: claims of identity, challenges to identity and reinforcement of identity. The theme…
Covid-19 and Indigenous resilience
© 2020 HERDSA. As a collective, we reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted Indigenous students at a personal, institutional and national level in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
Growing the fleet–A Māori re-search-teina’s perspective on Māori and Pasifika re-search relationality
He Vaka Moana is a strengths-based project framed by oceanic principles and methodologies that connect us as Mori and Pasifika to the ocean. The underpinning kaupapa and theoretical framework of He Vaka Moana is the Tongan proverb "pikipiki hama kae vaevae manava", which refers to our individual vaka coming together to support each other as we navigate the moana. He Vaka Moana operates through tukana-tina relationships, with Mori, Pasifika and Pk…
Body Sovereignty and Te Matatini
This commentary explores the ways in which body sovereignty has been illustrated and supported in the sovereign space of Te Matatini (Ki Te Ao).It is suggested that the 2019 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao Kapa Haka Finals were a space that privileged Te Ao Mäori and body sovereignty in multiple, intersecting ways.I propose that sovereign spaces such as Te Matatini provide an alternative illustration, discourse and narrative to current coloniality that rest…
Māori experiences of bariatric surgery in South Auckland, New Zealand
Access to publicly funded bariatric surgery in New Zealand is limited, but privileges patients who identify as New Zealand European or Other European. This example of institutional racism in the New Zealand health system further reiterates that Māori face inequitable access to gold standard medical interventions. This article analyses semi-structured interviews undertaken with Māori who had bariatric surgery at Counties Manukau Health which house…
Fat Indigenous Bodies and Body Sovereignty: An Exploration of Re-presentations
This article explores re-representations of fat Indigenous bodies and subsequently the ways in which access becomes restricted through multiple systems of oppression and biopower. I suggest a move away from body positivity movements in favour of body sovereignty as a response to racism, sexism, fatism and biopolitics. While body sovereignty and Indigenous sovereignty are not mutually exclusive, and body sovereignty is not a new phenomenon in Indi…
You’re the One That Was on Uncle’s Wall!”: Identity, Whanaungatanga and Connection for Takatāpui (LGBTQ+ Māori)
Takatāpui (Māori LGBTIQ+) challenge static notions of relationality and belonging or whanaungatanga for Māori. Explorations of Māori and LGBTIQ+ identity can often polarise experiences of family as either nurturing spaces or sites comprised of actors of spiritual and physical violence. However, such framing ignores the ways in which cultural practices for establishing relationality for takatāpui extend beyond dichotomies of disconnection or conne…
Why would you give your children to something you don’t trust?’: Rangatahi health and social services and the pursuit of tino rangatiratanga
Persistent health inequities between rangatahi Māori (Indigenous young people) and other young people within Aotearoa New Zealand are incurred by a colonial machinery of institutions, service systems and sociocultural contexts that facilitates the marginalisation of Māori. Despite a skilled and dedicated Māori workforce, current service contexts severely limit the innovation of Māori practitioners working from a basis of mātauranga Māori (Māori w…
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against Covid-19: Findings from a international online exploratory survey
This short report presents the findings of an online survey of self-identified fat people in eight countries identified as having guidelines for the use of long needles in SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes. The survey captures fat people’s understanding of the need for, and knowledge about the use of, a long needle when being vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings identified a knowledge gap amongst fat people about…
Te Tapatoru: A model of whanaungatanga to support rangatahi wellbeing
Whanaungatanga (nurturing of relationships) is at the heart of wellbeing for rangatahi (Māori youth), yet little research has considered how rangatahi understand and experience whanaungatanga. Furthermore, policy makers, organisations and practitioners have had limited guidance to reflect on whanaungatanga with young Māori in ways that support rangatahi wellbeing and aspirations. As part of a broader photo‐elicitation project on whanaungatanga wi…
What does body sovereignty mean to you? Decolonising the body: Pūrākau as method(ology)
Ka mua, ka muri—When I Was and When I Am
Kia ora e hoa, wishing wellness and vitality, to you, dear friend. This piece is a window into the realities of being a fat Māori girl and woman. It offers insights into the sense making, intimacies, and intricacies of being a fat Māori girl, and now woman. This piece is whakapapa, the layering of genealogy, of thought, of realities, of experiences, of identities. It offers a glimpse into a time of whakapapa, of how I have made sense of my world …
My body feels fucking great during sex: Fat, Wāhine, Māori and sex(uality) - a Kōrero of sovereignty, desirability, deservedness, and pleasure
As Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, Māori have rich expressions of sex(uality); we see this in our whakapapa, our ancestry, and the pūrākau of Hinenuitepō, one of the most powerful Māori deities, ancestors, and wāhine of Te Ao Māori. Hinenuitepō is a guide and a guardian of us, particularly as we move from Te Ao Mārama, the world of light, to Te Pō and Rarohenga, the world of night and the underworld. However, often colonial, gendered …
Indigenous(ly) fat, fat(ly) Indigenous
A seen body causes memories to flow, memories to flow.This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what ha...
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works)