Identity
Why is govt not funding "vital" HIV survey?
The Ministry of Health has stopped funding the annual GAPSS/GOSS surveys of gay and bisexual men despite a 2013 analysis it commissioned describing it as "vital" for assessing the success of HIV… Audio
Auckland Uni investigates racist posters
Posters depicting what are being described as white supremacist views have been plastered across Auckland University's central campus.
A D Carson: A Rap Thesis
North Carolina PHD student A.D. Carson presented his thesis as a 34 track rap album. He joins Melody Thomas to talk race relations, the politics of language, and the influence of hip-hop. Video, Audio
Aboriginal rapper Briggs talks hip hop heritage
Sam Wicks talks to Adam Briggs from Australian hip hop duo A.B. Original, whose album Reclaim Australia recently won the Australia Music Prize. Audio
Susan Faludi on gender and identity
The Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author talks with Kim Hill about her most recent book In the Darkroom - a memoir of her transgender father and a meditation on identity. Audio
Polyfest connects students with Samoan identity
Samoan students at an Auckland boys school who do not speak the language are using Polyfest to reconnect with their culture.
Murray Ball remembered by fellow cartoonist Tom Scott
In his own way he captured rural life as exquisitely and as perfectly as Katherine Mansfield caught early Wellington. He was as funny as Fred Dagg and Billy T. James and as blokey as Barry Crump. He… Audio
Remembering cartoonist Murray Ball
Catherine Hutton looks back at the life of cartoonist, author and filmwriter, Murray Ball. Audio
Gender and leadership personality traits
Marc Wilson of Victoria University talks about personality traits and leadership. Audio
Canadian taken from family as a baby and sent to NZ goes 'home' for first time
Canadian First Nations man Brent Mitchell has returned to his country of birth for the first time after being taken from his family when he was a baby and then sent to New Zealand when he was five. Audio
Employers are paying women less "because they can"
The gender pay gap isn't closing and new research says the main reason for the difference in wages is down to bias. Catriona MacLennan says employers are paying women less because they can get away… Audio
The Mixtape: Leila Adu
Composer, musician, researcher Leila Adu shares her mixtape of eclectic activist music for this week's RNZ Mixtape. She speaks with Yadana Saw. Video, Audio
Disney movie to feature gay scene for first time
Disney will feature its first gay scene in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast.
'She's a good chap'
On Valentine's Day 2007 Georgina Beyer brought down the curtain on her 8 year career in government. The first transsexual in the world to be elected to parliament, her short time in national politics… Audio
David France - How to Survive a Plague
In the early 1980s, a diagnosis of AIDS was a death sentence, and the US government was doing nothing about it. David France tells the story of how scientists and citizens came together to halt the… Audio
Mana Ngangahu: Female Warrior
Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku has been a catalyst for the gay liberation movement in Aotearoa for nearly five decades. Audio
Kapahaka - the pinnacle of Māori performing arts
Te Ahi Kaa celebrates Te Matatini 2017 with an insight into kapahaka. Audio
The Expats: Alicia de la Cour Venning in Myanmar
Alicia de la Cour Venning is a New Zealand lawyer, living and working in the Kachin State, in Myanmar. Audio, Gallery
"Normal is boring!" - Josef Schovanec
Kathryn Ryan meets Dr Josef Schovanec, French writer, academic, polyglot and advocate for people with autism. He's an advisor to the French government, and travels France and the world, speaking about… Audio
