People
Fleeing Iran as a teenager was easier than parenting
Watch the first episode from the new season of Conversations With My Immigrant Parents.
People tell us why they showed up to the Posie Parker protest
“It didn’t turn out as a peaceful protest but that usually always happens when two groups collide."
Posie Parker gets sauced and shut down before she can speak
Thousands of counter-protesters showed up and shouted “go home Posie” on Saturday.
How this East Coast kapa survived Cyclone Gabrielle to get to Te Matatini
“We are alive and in time we will rise again.”
Grace returns to her Chinese roots after a breakup | Dating While Asian
Watch the first episode of Dating While Asian now ❤️?
Shaneel Lal wants to get sluttier | Dating While Asian
Experiencing love (or a fun hoe phase) shouldn’t feel like a privilege.
How to just say no to mediocre hookups | Dating While Asian
No more hookups with guys who don’t have bed frames.
The software engineer on a dating bender | Dating While Asian
How much does wanting external validation factor into who you choose to date?
How to realise you’re not actually attracted to men | Dating While Asian
Watch the fifth episode of Dating While Asian now.
I left my job to sell second hand clothes online | Show Us Your Money
“I’ve never gone into an op shop and seen a shortage of clothing."
My Christian fundamentalist upbringing in Auckland
“The whole concept of the purity ring negated consent; we never learned what consent was.”
Disabled, unable to work and on the benefit | Show Us Your Money
“We don't go on these benefits because we want to. … We literally don't have any other choice.”
We fell in love in a VR chatroom
"In VR we can be whoever we want or whatever we want."
Asking people how much their outfit costs
"We love a thrifty queen."
What rural fashion says about NZ culture
“There's nowhere here that you need to be dressed up to go. This is us. This is how we are.”
Her best friend died at a Dunedin flat party. Now she's calling for change
Megan Prentice's best friend Sophia Crestani died in an overcrowded flat party in 2019.
Asking people how much money they have in savings
“Nowadays you have to save for today, tomorrow and the future as well."
Taranaki father on why living rurally doesn’t save him money
“The system that so desperately wants people off the system was trapping us in the system.”
Why this Taranaki couple earning $165k want to live with their parents
"Working to help whānau, that's my purpose of life aye."
'Last call at 9.30pm': What the nightlife is like in New Plymouth
Taranaki locals tell us about the nightlife in New Plymouth two years into a pandemic.
Russians in NZ tell us how they feel about Putin
"We have a common enemy - this enemy called Vladimir Putin."
I'm a primary school teacher who wears a hijab. The kids understand
I tell the kids my hijab is for my religion and they grasp that concept so fast.
People assume I’m not confident because I wear a hijab. Here’s why that’s wrong
‘The hijab has given me this confidence’
Talking about OCD with BENEE
“I'm just constantly counting and it got really annoying. At one point, I was counting pumps of face cleanser, and I was just like, Oh, God,…
COVEN’s Moe Laga on running away from home and finding her family | Eating Fried Chicken in the…
"I don't have all the answers but I just base it off what I've been through and my survival."
The Fan Brigade’s Amanda Kennedy: ‘I refuse to feel shame’ | Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower
“Why should it be embarrassing or shameful to have horrible shit happen in your life? Everyone has horrible shit in their lives. It’s such a relief…
‘I had a massive identity crisis’: Joe Daymond on his return to Aotearoa | Eating Fried Chicken in…
“I remember I would sign surveys and when it would ask what nationality I was, I would put NZ/European. Because I didn’t have any association with…
I’m 27 and Covid-19 gave me a heart and lung condition: Living with Long Covid
“I have completely changed, I've become a shell of the person I was.”
'It wasn’t just the dawn raids': 4 Pacific men talk about mental health and racism in NZ | Eating…
Oscar Kightley, Church Leon & Henry Hohenberger join James Nokise in discussion of mental health.
A Māori health nurse shares how she makes 25% less than DHB nurses | Show Us Your Money
A nurse at a Māori health provider shares how she supports her whānau on a $55K salary.