Vika Johnson’s Layers of Identity
By OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media | Posted: Saturday Mar 22, 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 Layers of Identity - Vika Johnson
“Every single day that I’ve been alive knowing that I’m Russian, shapes me into the person I’m becoming. Every day I hope that I’m making my birth parents proud and my adoptive parents proud too.”
Vika, a Year 13 student at Queen’s High School, shares insights from her essay on the experience of being a Russian adoptee living in New Zealand and dreams of learning more about her family in Russia.
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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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