I am Loren Pasquier and you are listening to The Woven Women.

Our first Chapter is called Wāhine, which means woman in Te Reo Māori, Māori language, and it is here, in New Zealand that I met the first four women on this journey.

In this first episode, we meet Ngawaina Joy.
Raised by her grandmother and aunties and uncles, she recounts how her whanau spoiled her with love, not wealth growing up. From watching her grandmother weave to stories about kai, Joy was always surrounded by the comforts of her heritage. But it wasn’t until she was in her late twenties that she fully awakened to her identity as a Māori woman.

The powerful words of each interview are woven together with real-life recordings captured by the women themselves.

Click here to see Ngawaina Joy's photography portrait.

The four episodes of Wāhine will be released every Thursday for the following month. Make sure you subscribe now, so you get to hear the story of Cindy Te Ata next Thursday.

If you want to know more about this initiative and support this journey, our website thewovenwomen.org is a great place to go!

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Enjoy your journey, and thank you for listening.

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