Featuring Fashun with Penelope Noir and the weekly book review with Jenna on Loose Reads, thanks to Time Out Bookstore and later Australian comedian Guy Montgomery is in the studio for a chat about his show this week!
Playlist
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES
Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain
Large Professor - I Juswanna Chill
Flying Lotus, Andreya Triana - Tea Leaf Dancers
Servi - Swingin' Both Ways
La Luz - Morning High
Na Noise - Bad Dreams
Nirvana - Dumb
Surf Friends - Good Thing
The Kinks - David Watts
Princess Chelsea - All The Stars
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Alice Canton spoke with actor and playwright Gideon Smith about Black Faggot - a black comedy production at Q Theatre telling the experiences of queer Pasifika in response to Destiny Church’s “Enough is Enough” march on Parliament in 2004 and the 2012 protests against the Marriage Equality bill.
Recently, Statistics Minister, Shane Reti, has announced that Stats NZ will be moving away from the Census to collect data, cancelling the next scheduled Census in 2028.
The move will result in data already collected by government agencies to be used as the primary source of population data.
To ensure minority communities are accurately portrayed in national data, Stats NZ say they will be working with these communities, with plans to implement smaller surveys and targeted data collection.
However, concerns have been raised about whether this is enough.
News and Editorial Director and Monday Wire Host, Joel, spoke to Liza Bolton, a Professional Teaching Fellow in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland, about this move, and her concerns regarding moving away from the Census to collect data.
A very special show falling on the longest night of the year - Carlotta and Scarlett shared airwave controls moving through etheral sounds to chicago house to dance groove and back. Also in the studio we are joined by special guest - writer, creator & mythic muse Shaney Marie Enchantress. Closing the show with kōrero on her fabulous work in the feild of Dark Love and her upcoming projects.