Jayden's Layers of Identity

By OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media | Posted: Friday Sep 26, 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 Jayden Trinh Jesudhass

"What if I hadn’t been made to choose? What if I could actually have both flavours? Mango or banana? Aotearoa or Asia?”

Jayden, a NZ-born Vietnamese Singaporean Indian, studies nursing at Otago Polytechnic. His essay Mango or Banana was inspired by his struggle to choose one fruit flavour at a real fruit ice cream shop in Central Otago - a metaphor for his multiple cultural identities.

Layers of Identity Broadcasts Fridays 3.30pm on 105.4 FM, 1575 AM

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