“Mind Lint zine is about radical thought, Maoritanga and freedom from capitalism. It aims to discuss and inform from a different perspective to not only mainstream society but main thought avenues of minority and fringe groups.”
Sarsha
Mind Lint is a zine authored by Aotearoa punk legend Sarsha Leigh-Douglas (Ngāti Maru, Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu) who produced seven issues from 2007-2012. Drawing on her Maori heritage Mind Lint offered a rare indigenous perspective on punk, politics, pandas and nanas, mixed in with her insightful views on colonialism in Aotearoa and abroad. Sarsha played in numerous punk bands from Te Whanganui-a-Tara during Mind Lint’s five year run including: Shortlived, Coexister, Fantails, Rogernomix and Freak Magnet and she currently (in 2026) plays in doom band DAHTM.
| Editors | Sarsha Leigh-Douglas |
| Writers | Sarsha Leigh-Douglas |
| First Issue | 2007 |
| Last Issue | 2012 |
| Number | 7 |
| Based in | Te Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington |
| Website | Pantaloon Party Press |
Mind Lint #2
June 2008
A history of Bastion Point/ Ngati Whatua’s long struggle, The Australian Northern territory interventions, Aubrey Beardsley, Scab/ Shortlived land of Oz tour, Bad Hori or Mana wahine: cultural relativism 101, book reviews, poems.
Mind Lint #3
September 2009
Your Land Is Our Land: Colonisation and the Maori Battalion, Shortlived in Europe, Freedom from Choice/ Individuality: The Underdog of the Competitive Commune, Auckland: A doctored history, book binding, gig reviews, Maori Conservation and Capitalism, book/ TV reviews
Mind Lint #4
July 2010
Roma: Land not Nationhood, book reviews, Tikanga 101: Kai, Emory Douglas, Squats and Marae: commonality of worldwide communal ideals, Watch Your Colonial Tongue! Misrepresentation of cultural identity.
Mind Lint #5
March 2011
Maori Gangs & Christian Salvation, Halatau Naitoko & why cops shouldn’t have guns or power, Get Real Anarchy, zine & book reviews, Public Enemy gig review, Charles Robinson.
Mind Lint #6
Tikanga 101: Turangawaewae, Josephine Baker, Mix Tape Mayhem, Sweet Girl Groups, Best non-punk punx as albums, Lucy Parsons, Choice as things to do in Wellington, Mana Wahine and Science,
Mind Lint #7
November 2012
D.I.Y reminiscing, Advice for pakeha to better interact with Maori activists in their community, Freak Magnet‘s Euro trash tour 2012, Tour epiphanies 1 “even the drug dealers are nice”, Tour epiphanies 2: view from “the other side” of the World Wars, Tour epiphanies 3: hippocratic oath, review: Rumble and Bang
