Feminism

In 2006 Auckland fashion designer Lucie Boshier was 24 and the next big thing in Kiwi fashion. She was also controversial and two years later she closed her shop, and later disappeared like fairy dust… Audio

Jaya Beach-Robertson and Aria Dehar are the talented team behind the New Zealand (and decidedly NSFW) web series PSUSY. Audio

Long before the hashtag #MeToo began and the dark underbelly of abuse of women in Hollywood came to light, two New Zealand women were exploring, for a theatre piece, women's sexuality in both negative… Video, Audio

The debate over the publication of magazines like Playboy have resurfaced following the death of the magazine's founder Hugh Hefner.

Hefner died yesterday aged 91. Playboy combined softcore… Audio

Jesse Mulligan's guest is composer, performer and music producer Victoria Kelly. Victoria is also the Director of New Zealand Membership at APRA AMCOS - The Australasian Performing Rights… Audio

The National Council of Women has marked its 100 year anniversary with its annual national conference, held in Christchurch, the home of Kate Sheppard, who founded the organisation. The theme was "A… Audio

Dame Judith Potter became the first woman president of a District Law Society - Auckland - in 1988 and the first woman President of the New Zealand Law Society in 1991. She was appointed to the High… Audio, Gallery

Toni Bruce has been researching the mainstream media for more than 25 years and observing how it represents sport. A former sports journalist, she's now a professor at the University of Auckland's… Audio

Men’s rights activists are being put in the spotlight for new musical M’Lady – A Meninist Musical.  Written by Cassandra Tse, and James Cain, with music from Michael Stebbings the show morphed from… Audio

For women, ageing comes with many complications. We speak to three women who have done it - gracefully or otherwise. 

Auckland University's professor Kathy Campell discusses the history of things invented by women, some new thinking about whether T-Rex had feathers and discoveries in the brand-new field of… Audio

The Treaty of Waitangi, the Declaration of Independence and the Women's Suffrage Petition will now permanently be on display at He Tohu - an exhibition inside Wellington's National Library. Video, Audio

Nina Powles describes herself as a 'hungry girl.' This talented young Eurasian writer talks about food, feminism, life in Shanghai and her blog 'Dumpling Queen.' Audio, Gallery

In this final of a series of three panel discussions about contemporary feminism, Kim Hill talks with four women about 'Ageing and Agency.' Audio

In this second of a series of three panel discussions about contemporary feminism, Megan Whelan talks with four women actively involved with the digital world: Anna Guenther, the co-founder of Pledge… Audio

Having revolutionised running for women during the Boston Marathon in 1967, Kathrine Switzer is preparing to run the same route again, at 70-years-old. Audio