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This poster advertised KAZAM, a significant Takatāpui, Queer & Trans National Youth Hui in Auckland, Queen's Birthday weekend, 3-6 June 2011. Organised by Rainbow Youth, one of the aims of KAZAM was to set up national youth network. The hui was paid for by Tāmati Coffey who had given his prize money to Rainbow Youth after he won Dancing with the Stars in 2009.
People attended KAZAM from around the country. Wellington organisations Tranzform and Schools Out were given money to hire a bus to drive attendees to Auckland. One of the attendees, Bella Simpson, spoke about who she was and what it was like being a young trans woman. Bella remembers the bus ride from Wellington to Auckland for the hui was a 'wild ride up' where a sense of community built as they progressed up the island (Simpson 2020).
Bella (born 1996) came out socially as a transgender girl when she was 11 years old, and began a public life as a trans advocate when she was 12. This poster is part of her collection held by Te Papa.