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Elizabeth Kerekere is a LGBTQ+ scholar and activist. In this article, we explore who Elizabeth Kerekere net worth is and her personal life.
Elizabeth Kerekere Biography
Elizabeth Kerekere was born on 1966 in New Zealand.
Elizabeth Kerekere is also an artist and graduated from Eastern Institute of Technology with a bachelor in Māori visual arts .
Throughout her studies at EIT, Kerekere focussed on mana tupuna (ancestors), mana wahine (women) and mana takatapui (the right to live and love regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity) and was the only degree graduate to have a solo exhibition.
After graduating from EIT, Kerekere spent the following five years researching the development of takatapui identity in the 21st century at Victoria University of Wellington, arguing that pre-colonial Māori were sexually experimental people who openly accepted gender and sexual fluidity.
Kerekere stood in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the 2017 New Zealand general election.
She placed third of three candidates with 1,924 votes. Kerekere will be running for the Green Party again in 2020, again for the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate, and is ninth on their party list.
She is the Founder/Chair of Tīwhanawhana Trust (2000), a scholar and an activist within the LGBTQ+ community in New Zealand. She identifies as takatāpui and produced the first major research on mental health and the culture of on the takatāpui whānau.
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about She’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
She has no children.
Her father, Karauria Tarao “Bison” Kerekere, was an artist and master carver. He was Māori, and of the Te Whānau a Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Ngāti Oneone iwi.
Elizabeth’s mother Erin is Irish, from County Clare and County Tipperary.
Kerekere is a lesbian, and is married to Alofa Aiono, whom she met in 1992.
The couple held their civil union in Te Papa’s marae, Te Marae Rongomaraero, which Kerekere advised on the design of.
There are no records on the internet indicating that she has children biologically or is a mother.
Elizabeth Kerekere Net Worth: Is Elizabeth Kerekere rich?
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