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This episode we talk about the literary crisis and the true cost of it because it is deeper than reading. We talk about how reading is a tool for how we see this world critically and fully humanised. This is not about talking about intelligence but how this tool is used in our system. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

We continue the kōrero from last episode and talk about the gradient of hypervisibility and who profits from it. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

You can be the most-looked-at person in the room and the least known. This episode is about the gap between how Muslim women are read and who we actually are, and why that gap matters more in 2026 than ever. Expect big ideas, real history, some uncomfortable questions for a good kōrero. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

new ep is about how assimilation isn't actually a switch (integrated or not) — it's more like a dial you're turning all day without even clocking it. pulling in some genuinely wild research + getting into why that hits different here in Aotearoa specifically. also getting into why "us vs them" thinking kind of falls apart once you actually look at how identity really works, and who even gets to choose where their dial sits vs who doesn't. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

Jason Arday, a Cambridge professor, was accused of plagiarism. The public and systemic response revealed a lot about DEI initiatives, culture wars and who is given grace to be a flawed human. Amal unpacks it all. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

It's easy to call out virtue signalling or performative activism but what if is more nuanced and deeper than that? Amal unpacks what is missing when we only focus on virtue signalling and how we can be better allies + critical thinkers if we discuss the cost of this 'virtue signalling' instead. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

For the summer months, TV screens across the world come alight every evening for millions of viewers across the world to watch the shenanigans that come of ungodly good looking people dating. Sounds like a bitta fun and not too deep right? WRONG! Love Island reflects the society we live in and there is a lot to be said about our systems and the -isms we deal with in our daily life. Tune in to hear more about double standards, racism, misogny, and feminism. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

Therapy-speak" is everywhere now — boundaries, trauma responses, protecting your peace — but somewhere along the way it stopped helping us understand ourselves and started helping us avoid each other. This episode traces where that language actually came from (hint: it was never meant to be this individualistic), who's making billions off selling it back to us, and how the exact same vocabulary shows up in girlhood self-help content and tradwife TikToks alike. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

Amal unpacks cultural appropriation in K-pop - walking through the documented cases (blackface, cornrows, the "blaccent" thing) and the fact that the industry was literally built on Black American music from day one, Motown-style, without always crediting it. This episode unpacks cultural appropriation in a fresh, nuanced way. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

This episode builds on the foundations we built in part I but this time we apply positionality as a practice - how can it help you with media literacy, critical thinking and analysing our systems. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

One of the best ways to understand how we move through this world and systems is seeing where our feet are. What position are we coming in with?This episodes unpacks what positionality is to help us understand our vantage point of our world and systems. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

We finish out the kōrero on Critical Race Theory and talk about it means to understand it beyond the framework. We discuss critiques, how to apply it in our day to day and how CRT can help us understand and work with community better. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

Last episode, we got into what Critical Race Theory is and isn't about. This episode, we apply CRT to Aotearoa context and how CRT adds another layer as to how we should unpack our living colonial history. We also unpack how CRT shows up in our day to day lives - music, our phones, media, desirability politics, dating preferences and representation. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

this episode we unpack eeeeverything critical race theory. What is it? Why is important to discuss? Why is it relevant to talk about race in 2026? Understanding what CRT is and isn't will unveil a new and nuanced way to look at inequality and our systems. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz

In this episode, we unpack the unspoken scripts that shape how marginalised lives are understood, particularly the expectation of struggle as a defining feature of identity. While struggle and inequality are very real, we explore what happens when suffering becomes the primary way people are seen, validated, and made legible. Moving through ideas from thinkers like bell hooks and James Baldwin, alongside pop culture and everyday examples, this conversation examines how struggle can become a kind of social currency — something compared, performed, and even quietly romanticised. Ultimately, we sit with a more difficult question: if identity is no longer anchored in hardship, what does it mean to exist beyond it? This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz