Featuring Lecture Me with English BA student Beth thanks to Blue Hills Books, Implausible Deniability with Stella, and Finn finds solutions to our burning queries on Dear Finn.
Mōrena! Joel speaks to the co-creators of The Gender Agenda, Perrin Hastings and Sandi Tsai, an upcoming docu-series discussing the concept of gender! While playing some EDM, dad rock, and indie music, and discussing the US Presidential Elections! Whakarongo mai!
Ahead of some highly-anticipated new releases soon to come down the pipe (tune in on a regular basis folks...), Def Jim revisits a few choice recent drops from the likes of Tomeka Reid, Ivo Perelman and Angelica Sanchez, raids the 60s & 70s Avant vaults for shiny pearls fiom the New York Art Quartet and Julius Hemphill, slots in a personal favourite from Oregon and in between tarries in a few waystations in Jazz Guitar Heaven.
Last week, Transport Minister, Simeon Brown, announced that Auckland’s rail network will close for 96 days, with an additional 53 days where operations will be reduced.
Brown cites multiple reasons for these closures, which are to develop and upgrade Auckland’s rail network.
News and Editorial Director, and Monday Wire Host, Joel, spoke to the National Coordinator of the Public Transport Users Association New Zealand, Jon Reeves, about this announcement, what the association’s thoughts are regarding the matter, and what this will mean for public transport users.
For Transgender Awareness Week, Joel spoke to Artie Ho, who is helping to run a Trans Community Day at the Ellen Melville Centre on Saturday, the 26th of November, as well as playing music from a variety of different trans masc, femme, and non-binary artists.
As well as this, Joel spoke to RuPauls Drag Race Down Under season 4 contestant, Olivia Dreams, starting off a new segment of the show, where Joel will speak to every drag queen on the show as the season progresses!