The Flipside

Being Intersex: identity, intersectionality, and mental health

This week, Mikaela shares her experience as an intersex person and how it ties in with mental health, identity and sexuality. We discuss tendencies to watch for Bi-polar, as well as therapy, and how Mikaylas lived experience informs her art and activism.

Is social media causing Negative body image, self-isolating & depression? - with Te Manaia

This week, we discuss what it means to have a negative body image, what causes isolation & depression, and why social media exacerbates these issues. Te Manaia’s internal and physical battle with scoliosis, and the ensuing body issues that her condition caused, affected her mental health and self esteem causing her to self isolate as a teenager. They discuss her passion for psychology, art as therapy/introspection. As well as hate and online bullying, and the impact social media has on the Gen Z psyche, self esteem, and social world.

On childhood trauma with Ariki Perana

This week, Ariki and Aniwa discuss being broke, the precarious life of an artist, financial struggles, the drug binge culture in NZ, Survival mentality, class divides, Kaikohe (small town NZ), support networks and what it’s like to carry the after effects of traumatic events when faced with a lack of understanding from peers who have grown up on the other side of the tracks.

The Journey of an injury ending season with Rangimarie mita - a story of resilience and opening up.

This week, Rangimarie Mita & Aniwa talk about the role content creation has in documenting his self development journey. They talk about basketball, and his season-ending injury, of which the fallout lead to his Mahi in the mental health space.