The Challenges We Face
Videos that explore the challenges we face in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Playlist
As an immigrant, is finding a “true” cultural identity possible? The Muzondiwa family left Zimbabwe for New Zealand/Aotearoa at a time when it was difficult to buy even bread.
Whakawahine might loosely translate as “trans woman”, but more importantly it’s a term that also takes into account whakapapa Māori.
Latifa loves hearing stories from her grandfather Mahmood, particularly about her great, great grandfather who moved to the Waikato in 1908 and helped build the first mosque in New Zealand.
Poet, student and member of vogue house Coven-Carangi Stellar Angafili Makarita Pritchard has finally found her community. In this video, as part of RNZ’s series about trans mental health, Stellar talks about meeting house mother and artist Moe Laga, and finding her ‘chosen family’.
“If anything can describe the experience of being Black in New Zealand, it’s being simultaneously visible, and invisible.” Mez and Mahlete only envisioned the Black Lives Matter protest march to be close friends. Within 24 hours, their flyer was shared by some of the biggest names in NZ.
A science superhero with pink hair wages war on COVID-19 to convince an entire nation to lockdown.
Of all New Zealanders, it’s Pacific people who do the bulk of volunteering and unpaid work. But the term 'unpaid work' in Pasifika communities can sometimes be seen as offensive.
In the first episode of Minimum, cleaners Victoria and Charmaine are confronted with demoralising and dangerous environments and tell of how they hardly get to spend time with their kids.