As a beautiful young TV star in the 1990s, Gulchehra Hoja was important to the Chinese state: the acceptable face of China's Uyghur Muslim minority. Then in 2001, Hoja did an about-turn, fleeing to the United States and working with Radio Free Asia, reporting on human rights abuses. B

Whether it's the Auckland floods, European cultural erasure or youth crime Daniel Vernon's comics, art and music have become a go-to for smart, biting satire.

From humble beginnings as a teen dad in Heretaunga to heading Warren and Mahoney's Advanced Indigenous Design Unit, designer Whare Timu ( Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Arawa,  Ngāti Tuwharetoa) has come a long way.

In the race to create and release Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, are Silicon Valley companies such as OpenAI failing to fully consider the consequences of their work? The speed of development in the field is dizzying, with new tools such as ChatGPT and DALL·E offering a sneak peek at the potential of AI to work for us. Ethiopian born US computer scientist Dr Timnit Gebru is a leading researcher on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Swedish author Ann-Helén Laestadius is descended from a long line of reindeer herders, growing up in Kiruna, 145 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Her people are the Sámi, the indigenous people of Sweden and the wider region of Sápmi (formerly Lapland). Known previously as a young adult author, Laestadius' first book for adults Stolen has been a Swedish bestseller, and Book of the Year.

'I killed Captain Cook' is the name of a single off Portland-based New Zealand psychedelic rock group Unknown Mortal Orchestra's album V which is released later this month. Frontman Ruban Nielson's Hawaiian heritage has been a key inspiration, and the song's video features footage of his mother, Deedee Aipolani Nielson, Miss Aloha Hula 1973.

Traumatic experiences get lodged in people's brains and bodies as a sense of threat and to heal they must rediscover a sense of safety, says psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.

Kim Hill reads listener feedback for 25 February 2023.

Between the 1920s and 1960s many Aboriginal people from Australia's great Western Desert and Kimberley regions were removed from their country and forced into hard labour on livestock stations. Despite this, the Traditional Peoples have maintained strong unbroken connections to their country. Now, Bangarra Dance Theatre's new work Sandsong is bringing their stories and songs to Aotearoa.

Protest photographer John Miller (Ngapuhi) has made a career capturing some of the most politically charged moments in our history.