Noelene Nabulivou

"Ive been spat at; (my wife and I) have had people harass us in public; weve had stones thrown at our roof at night. There have been many things over the years,"

"I had a newspaper out me. Ive had to fight the Methodist church on the radio and on TV, which was really hard to do as Im a very private person,"

"Eighty-four percent of LBT women and gender non-conforming people (who do not typically behave in traditional male or female roles) have reported intimate partner violence,"

"We are women who are also experiencing poverty, but also want to talk about bullying in schools or the experience of ecological development in the Pacific."

"There are many different things we care about as human beings," said Nabulivou, a self-confessed workaholic who says she has drawn fresh inspiration from her young daughter. "I want a world for her that is amazing, in which she can be liberated and free."