That Story's Sick

arts, health, fitness · EN

Kia ora koutou. This podcast is about narratives of illness and disability, and emerges from the project ‘Literatures of Environment and Disability from Oceania’- led by Bonnie Etherington and funded by a Royal Society Marsden Fast-Start grant. Through interviews with Indigenous authors from Oceania, we discuss what disability means for them, what literature means for them, and what it means to tell and to read disabled stories in our current environmental moment. Many thanks to Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds, who edited and transcribed the episodes, and who created the cover art: "Tūtahi no te ora is inspired by a piece of Tahitian tapa collected on Cook's second voyage that details the immense power and reverence for te pō, the realm of infinite potential and creation to which we all belong. In reckoning with the nuclear legacy in the Pacific and its active decomposing of island and human bodies, Tūtahi no te ora recalls the story of Ta'aroa breaking out of his eg