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- That Story's Sick with Khairani Barokka
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Khairani Barokka (Okka) is the author of numerous works, including Indigenous Species (2016), Ultimatum Orangutan (2021), amuk (2025), and Annah, Infinite (2025). You can access the full transcript of this episode here.
47 min - That Story's Sick with Ruby Hinepunui Solly
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Dr. Ruby Solly is the author of The Artist (2023) and Tōku Pāpā (2021), and is also a taonga pūoro practitioner.
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32 min - That Story's Sick with Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
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In this episode we are in conversation with Dr. Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, author of Tauhou (2023).
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25 min - That Story's Sick with Tusiata Avia
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In this podcast we are in conversation with poet Tusiata Avia MNZM, who has won numerous awards for her work, and published collections including Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004), Fale Aitu | Spirit House (2016), the Ockham-award-winning The Savage Coloniser Book (2020), Big Fat Brown Bitch (2023), and Giving Birth to My Father (2025).
Thanks again to Roby Solly for the podcast's music, to Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds for editing and transcribing the episodes and for the cover art, and to the Royal Society for funding this podcast via a Marsden Fast-Start Grant.
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36 min - That Story's Sick With Tina Makereti
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In this inaugural episode, we are in conversation with Dr. Tina Makereti, author of This Compulsion in Us (2025), The Mires (2025), and Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (2014).
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About That Story's Sick
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Kia ora koutou. This podcast is about narratives of illness and disability, and emerges from the project ‘Literatures of Environment and Disability from Oceania’- led by Bonnie Etherington and…
funded by a Royal Society Marsden Fast-Start grant. Through interviews with Indigenous authors from Oceania, we discuss what disability means for them, what literature means for them, and what it means to tell and to read disabled stories in our current environmental moment.
Many thanks to Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds, who edited and transcribed the episodes, and who created the cover art: "Tūtahi no te ora is inspired by a piece of Tahitian tapa collected on Cook's second voyage that details the immense power and reverence for te pō, the realm of infinite potential and creation to which we all belong. In reckoning with the nuclear legacy in the Pacific and its active decomposing of island and human bodies, Tūtahi no te ora recalls the story of Ta'aroa breaking out of his egg and creating the world from his body. Orbiting him are cells that reimagine the nuclear trefoil as the three primary plants which tapa is made of in the Pacific: aute, 'ōrā, and 'uru. Behind them is the structural support of the red roots of the 'ōrā, symbolising divinity and infinite expansion."
Ngā mihi nui also to Dr. Ruby Solly who created the music for each episode.
This podcast is primarily recorded in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.