Asya Ahmadasri’s Layers of Identity
By OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media | Posted: Monday Mar 31, 2025
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s creative rangatahi explore their whakapapa through powerful stories of their identity, culture, and belonging through poetry and essays on ‘Layers of Identity’.
PODCAST bit.ly/LayersOfIdentityAsya
“In my poem, I mentioned quite a few important people in my life, which mainly was my family. When I was thinking about these poems, I had my identity in mind but I couldn't write anything without them in it.”
Asya, a Theatre and English student at the University of Otago, reflects on her experiences of living in both Malaysia and New Zealand for an equal amount of 10 years in each country. She shares insights into her acrostic poems 'Home is Where the Heart Is' and 'Malaysian and Loved'.
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Layers of Identity airs Saturdays 12.30pm and Fridays 3.30pm
105.4 FM, 1575 AM and oar.org.nz
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