Melanin on the Mic

Kia Ora!! This is our second part of the colourism, texturism, and featurism conversations. We recorded this last year and we thought we should continue this conversation and bring more personal experience into the discussion. We are so happy with this episode and we hope you guys not only learn through our traumatising experiences but also have a bit of laugh.

Selam! In this ep we are talking about divesting from the gender binary and our own individual experiences of gender! We have a special guest, Henry Pinder with us :) and we also talk representation, language and desirability. enjoy!

Kia Ora e te whānau! In this weeks episode we introduce a discussion surrounding colourism, texturism, and featurism. We are stoked to be able to discuss these often dismissed topics on our pod and we hope to continue this conversation further. Our main focus for our first part of this conversation majorly focuses on palatable media and how these forms of racism play a huge role in the media you intake. The youtubers mentioned are Khadija Mbowe https://www.youtube.com/c/KhadijaMbowe and Amandamaryanna https://www.youtube.com/c/amandamaryanna . Please go check out their awesome content and amplify black voices

Tadias! We are back!! This weeks episode is a lil life update to get to know us better :) it's from the end of last year, we are talking about what we are excited for in 2022, things like art projects and new mediums and leadership opportunities, new projects and inspirations and music! Thank you for listening

Selam! This is part of our religion and spirituality series! We got the lovely Clarice @hello.clariice to chat with us about her beliefs, coming from a catholic-atheist-spiritist background and what lead her to where she is today! Hope you enjoy :)

Selam! This weeks episode we are talking about red flags in friendships and in relationships. We got y'all to send us in ur red flags and Tsenate shared some dating stories... and we talk about our own experiences!! Thank you for sending them in and thank you for listening! Also if you have any episode ideas for us, or would like to be a guest, please message us!

In this episode, we have a special guest, Audrey Apollo (@audreyapollo). Audrey is a talented singer-songwriter, poet and podcast host! This is an episode of our religion and spirituality series, and we ask Audrey about her faith, common misconceptions about Christianity, and what led her to where she is today! We loved making this ep, hope you enjoy :) Her pod is called Warriors Bleed and is available to be streamed on all platforms, go support her work

We are starting a series where we can talk about religion and spirituality with others. So keep an eye out & feel free to message us @melaninonthemic and jump on the pod

Kia Ora! this week we have the first of 3 parts, from our guest Clarice De Toledo (@hello.clariice). In this week's episode, we discuss Clarice's journey through immigration from Brazil and her challenges with being a 1st generation immigrant. Clarice shares with us her childhood stories and much more:)

Part 2!! In this episode we talk about working in media, the ups and downs of having your creative outlet also be your job, sexuality and freely and authentically expressing yourself (: To collaborate or learn more about Chantelle's media company click here.

In this episode we have a special guest Chantelle Whitehead! This is part one and we talk about what it was like growing up in London as a black woman, the contrast of moving to New Zealand, and about spirituality, the Egyptian roots of Christianity and about psychedelics and drugs! Thank you for listening

hii guys !! we are so so happy with how the pods going so far and we appreciate everything. In this episode we discussed topics of mental like: depression, anxiety and eating disorders. We would like to preface that we are NOT professionals and are speaking from personal experience. We also want to make a TRIGGER WARNING as these topics can be highly sensitive & cause discomfort.

In this weeks episode we had a close family member Yabesira onto the pod for a chit chat bout drugs, black experiences, dating & more!

Kia Ora!! Here is our very first episode, in this episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about what we're trying to do with our podcast. Go follow us on our Instagram @melaninonthemic and if you want to get to know us even more you can find us on @tsenate.akebergne and @m.araky