Kaiya Waerea (she/her, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a chronically ill writer and designer from Aotearoa, now living in London. Her research is concerned with knowledge produced through moving through this world in a disabled and Indigenous body, and how this knowledge can form new methodologies of practice. Her writing has been featured in Counter Signals 5: Systems and their Discontents (forthcoming), AIGA Eye on Design, Ache Magazine, Sick Magazine, DreamsTimesFree and others. Kaiya co-runs feminist press Sticky Fingers Publishing and teaches on the Graphic Design programme at Camberwell University of the Arts London.