“it’s our story through the lens of other people but what’s our story from who we are?”

@zechsoakai’s a spoken word artist whose creative and professional work is focused on re-storying South Auckland. by day he works as a kaiako teaching, walking & learning alongside the Young Brown Warrior Scholars of the 298

Māngere born and raised @rascal.gal is an activist, advocate and spoken word artist pushing for positive change.

In this episode of untold, Zech shares his journey with poetry and how he stays inspired by S.A., and FIli talks about how she got into spoken word and what it’s like to be a “menace to society” in her poetry and advocacy.