Our Colours in Aotearoa

Our Colours in Aotearoa Conversations about migration, race and feminism

Our colors in Aotearoa is a podcast that invites conversations around migration, race, feminism and decolonisation in Aotearoa. From our Latin American backgrounds and in conversation with others, we chat about the lived realities of migrants of colour in Aotearoa, our aspirations and the challenges we face, what we bring to Aotearoa and how we might become better tauiwi or treaty partners. In eac

h episode, we focus on one key concept that helps us unpack an aspect of our experiences, and talk with people from different walks of life who reflect on that topic, which creates a tapestry of stories, ideas, feelings and practices. We invite you to join us in this journey to help us grow this tapestry, making it as wide and multi-colour as it needs to be.

This Fiday 4th July, at midday. Let's meet outside the US embassy and stand together for migrants. Reject the dehumanisi...
02/07/2025

This Fiday 4th July, at midday. Let's meet outside the US embassy and stand together for migrants.
Reject the dehumanising rethoric and violence against migrants in the US, here, everywhere. It is all connected.

Latines and all tauiwi of colour, let's party and submit together! Today Tuesday 17 Jan at 6. Solidarity across communit...
16/06/2025

Latines and all tauiwi of colour, let's party and submit together! Today Tuesday 17 Jan at 6. Solidarity across communities.

⚡ Don't miss out on the amazing conversation we had on our third and last episode about the relevance of Latin American ...
16/06/2025

⚡ Don't miss out on the amazing conversation we had on our third and last episode about the relevance of Latin American feminist movements in amplifying the discussion about the responsibilities on crimes of violence against women worldwide!
In this discussion, we also counted on the expertise of Dr. Juanita Rojas Palacio.

Juanita is a public policy and public health professional with experience as a community development practitioner, consultant, lecturer, researcher, and activist. Her work focuses on health equity, political participation, and violence prevention.
Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute (PPI) at the University of Auckland. She also works as a lead practitioner in the prevention of family and sexual violence with ethnic communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this role, she collaborates with diverse cultural and religious groups to initiate community-led conversations on consent, healthy relationships, and masculinities through culturally grounded approaches.
Juanita is passionate about integrating community-based knowledge and policy analysis to create meaningful social change.

💚 Thank you for listening and sharing the talks from ! That's the end of our first season, and we're looking forward to hear your impressions and feedback!

💭 Would you like to listen to more conversations like this?! Leave suggestions of topics and guests in the comments! Let's keep spreading messages and reflections about social justice and equity in Aotearoa and beyond!

⚠️ Have you already checked on OCA Podcast?!One of the highlights of our last episode is how the feminisms we believe in...
01/06/2025

⚠️ Have you already checked on OCA Podcast?!
One of the highlights of our last episode is how the feminisms we believe in stand for social and environmental justice!
⚡And we have counted on the support of Alejandra Jaramillo to bring up a grassroots and straightforward reflection on the importance of decolonising ourselves!

Alejandra Jaramillo is an Educator and Researcher born in Medellin, Colombia. She works alongside communities to collaboratively design education programmes that reflect their strengths, knowledges, and priorities, ensuring that each initiative is meaningful, grounded, and sustainable. In her research seh is interested in working with community-led initiatives, social movements and grassroots organisations paying attention to how they contest colonial inheritances and imagine/embody alternative worlds. As tangata tiriti in Aotearoa, she is committed to Māori self-determination.

🎧 Listen, comment and share!

💭 And if you have ideas for future conversations you'd like to hear, let us know in the comments below!

🎙️ EPISODE 3 IS ON! This month on the OCA Podcast, we bring attention to the intersection of gender and ethnicity throug...
24/05/2025

🎙️ EPISODE 3 IS ON!

This month on the OCA Podcast, we bring attention to the intersection of gender and ethnicity through the lived experiences of Latinas navigating identity, culture, and resistance in Aotearoa NZ. From microaggressions in our daily lives to blunt cases of gender-based violence, this is another powerful and honest talk! 💪🏽🔥

Alejandra Jaramillo and Juanita Rojas join us for this necessary conversation. Both of them have a trajectory in feminist collectives in AoNZ and expertise in community- led work. Alejandra's work focuses on decolonial, pluriversal and bottom-up education programmes. Juanita has practice as a policy advisor with focus on the prevention of family, sexual and gender-based violence.

🎧 Tune in to hear stories that don't always get told - but need to be discussed! In our commitment to collective transformation, we invite you to become more aware of the nuances of racialised migrants experiences, and how we envision change from a decolonial stance in Aotearoa New Zealand and in our countries of birth.

💬 Let's keep talking: How have you experienced the intersection of gender and race? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

En consonancia con su programa de investigación,  es también activa en la comunidad y tiene una amplia experiencia en ju...
20/05/2025

En consonancia con su programa de investigación, es también activa en la comunidad y tiene una amplia experiencia en justicia socioambiental.

"Mi vida en Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda ha sido profundamente moldeada por mi propia experiencia y trabajo con comunidades migrantes y de personas ex-refugiadas. Como facilitadora de servicios sociales, he apoyado en la navegación de las complejidades del reasentamiento para crear espacios interculturales de confianza e inclusión. Creo en los procesos impulsados por la comunidad —aquellos que honran la experiencia vivida, desafían los sistemas extractivos y nutren el tejido social desde la base. Fuera del ámbito de la investigación, participo activamente en movimientos por la justicia social y ambiental. Me atraen especialmente las iniciativas lideradas por comunidades y los marcos alternativos que van más allá de los discursos dominantes occidentales. Considero que estas cosmovisiones deben entenderse dentro de sus propios contextos culturales e históricos, y que ofrecen lecciones valiosas para repensar la sostenibilidad, la gobernanza y el sentido de pertenencia, entre otros aspectos. Antes de mudarme a Aotearoa, trabajé en Colombia junto a comunidades campesinas, indígenas y afrocolombianas (hay una foto de “La Miga”) afectadas por el conflicto armado. Como asesora agrícola y organizadora comunitaria, apoyé procesos de desarrollo rural sostenible basados en la dignidad, los derechos sobre la tierra y el conocimiento comunitario. Estas experiencias continúan dando forma a mi compromiso con un cambio centrado en las comunidades, ya sea a través de la acción colectiva, el fortalecimiento de capacidades o simplemente estando presente con intención y cuidado. Veo el activismo como algo político, relacional y una práctica cotidiana. Creo que cuando las personas se unen, el impacto puede ser mayor de lo que imaginamos.”

Alejandra Guerrero  investiga las intersecciones entre migración, pertenencia y construcción del lugar desde una perspec...
17/05/2025

Alejandra Guerrero investiga las intersecciones entre migración, pertenencia y construcción del lugar desde una perspectiva feminista posestructuralista y de teoría crítica de la raza. Su trabajo se centra en cómo las personas migrantes latinoamericanas en Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda experimentan y resignifican los Espacios Públicos Urbanos Verdes (PUGS) como escenarios de inclusión, resistencia y bienestar. A través de entrevistas caminadas y enfoques interdisciplinarios que integran estudios ambientales, geografía humana y desarrollo, Alejandra busca visibilizar las formas en que el paisaje urbano refleja y reproduce dinámicas de racialización, exclusión e identidad, contribuyendo así a imaginarios urbanos más justos e inclusivos.

A lo largo de los años, nuestra colectiva creció a medida que conocimos a más personas interesadas en compartir su exper...
14/05/2025

A lo largo de los años, nuestra colectiva creció a medida que conocimos a más personas interesadas en compartir su experiencia y su tiempo para apoyar a nuestro mahi. Entre elles se encuentra nuestra querida Alejandra.
Alejandra Guerrero es una feminista colombiana apasionada por las plantas, la naturaleza y la creación de espacios inclusivos donde todas las personas puedan sentirse escuchadas, valoradas y con un sentido de pertenencia dentro de la comunidad y los nuevos lugares llamados casa. Su experiencia abarca el desarrollo rural en Colombia, en territorios afectados por el conflicto armado y el desplazamiento forzado, así como el fortalecimiento de economías comunales a diferentes escalas. En Nueva Zelanda ha trabajado en desarrollo comunitario, facilitación cultural y servicios sociales con migrantes y exrefugiados.
Ha estado involucrada en iniciativas de agroecología, soberanía y seguridad alimentaria, promoviendo procesos liderados por la comunidad. Disfruta plantar árboles, leer, participar en movimientos sociales y explorar el dibujo y la música como formas de expresión.
Es Ingeniera Agrónoma de la Universidad del Tolima, cuenta con un diploma de posgrado en políticas públicas medioambientales por la UNAM, y actualmente cursa una maestría en estudios ambientales en Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Su motivación para formar parte del colectivo OCA se basa en alzar la voz —speak up!— y contribuir a la creación de espacios seguros donde se puedan visibilizar y enfrentar las inequidades y opresiones estructurales, sociales y culturales que vivimos las personas migrantes racializadas en Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda y en el mundo.

📣 Together with voices that stand up for racial justice and the anti-racist mahi beyond our Latinx community, we got som...
09/05/2025

📣 Together with voices that stand up for racial justice and the anti-racist mahi beyond our Latinx community, we got some relatable insights from our colleague Byron Williams!

Byron Williams is a South African migrant to Aotearoa New Zealand and, in his words, he is ‘what is known in South Africa as a “coloured”’. He is currently a PhD candidate researching the experiences of racism amongst African renters as they seek to attain and maintain rental accommodation in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

His area of interest is in qualitative storytelling and anti-racism, applying a systemic analysis to the institutions that shape our everyday lives. These interests are guided and shaped by his own experiences and that of his family both in South Africa and Aotearoa New Zealand.

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