The work of Oliver Sutherland and his Auckland Committee On Racism and Discrimination is highlighted in a new documentary released this week in the Loading .
The offensive illustration from On Beyond Zebra, one of the six Dr Seuss books that will no longer be published
Photo: Dr Seuss illustration
“The problem with the culture wars / Is everything becomes a fight / And if Dr Seuss were alive today / He’d say this issue isn’t black and white.
But not everyone here was brushing off those books being eased out of the catalogue.
Last week Newshub reported National Party Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger took aim at would-be censors in rhyme on Facebook. Alas they ve come for Dr Seuss / They wish to hang him with a noose.”
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 8:14 am
Conversations With My Immigrant Parents is a
podcast and video series where immigrant whānau have
conversations they normally wouldn’t, crossing barriers of
language, generation, and expectation. Co-hosts and
producers
Saraid de Silva and
Julie
Zhu travelled Aotearoa meeting families from
different countries, sitting in as they spoke to each other
about love, disappointment, what home means to them - and
where home really is. The second series of this
project was such an exciting undertaking, and after two
seasons I still feel like we ve only skimmed the surface of
the migrant stories that are present in Aotearoa, says de