In each discipline of academia, brown bodies are few and far between. This critical collective autoethnography poetically, performatively decolonises two lived experiences of brown bodies. The two scholars live within the diaspora of Aotearoa, New Zealand; however, the bones of their ancestors are in Samoan. As a means of political resistance to the status quo, the Samoan Indigenous reference and Wayfinding is purposely included as foundational in decolonising.
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SamuT. W. (2006). The ‘Pasifika Umbrella’ and quality teaching: Understanding and responding to the diverse realities within. Waikato Journal of Education, 12(1), 297. https://doi.org/10.15663/wje.v12i1.297.
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SmithL. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies. Research and indigenous peoples (2nd ed.). Zed Books.
