Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi

Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi is pretty hilarious and laughs too much, so much that her Black/Indigenous and Pasifika ancestors are probably tired of her. Lucky she alternates burdening the two sides of her ancestry who are from Murray (Mer) Island, from the Zagareb and Dauareb tribes and Tonga. She loves talking about all things nerdy, as well as decolonising spaces online and in real life. If she’s upset any of her ancestors whilst making this bio, she’s sorry.

Articles by Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi:

Published in Overland Issue 234 Autumn 2019 ·

Into the valley

Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi

No-one says anything when we leave our small baby blue townhouse from the back door. We do this because the front door has been broken since the owner said he’d fix it when I was sixteen, but now I’m pushing twenty-one and still no sign from the landlord. I wonder how a middle-aged white man who sells ice cream and manages an extermination business from the same garage could be so busy for years that he is incapable of fixing his own door.