Sistas, Let's Talk

With lifestyle diseases due to poor diets and gradual loss of traditional food in the Pacific, Jennifer Baing has been championing the revival of traditional Pacific culinary.  

What are some of the challenges women musicians in the Pacific face when trying to pursue music as a career and how do they overcome these to do what they love: sing and make music? 

What stops a woman from leaving her cheating partner? Forgiveness? Love? Or is it more about finances, stigma and community expectations?   

Babies can be a joy, and family means a lot to our Pacific culture, but each year, tens of thousands of women in the Pacific face the difficult choices that come with an unplanned pregnancy. 

Losing a loved one is one of life's most traumatic experiences, and specific rituals have evolved over time to help ease that pain.

Women have long been acting as conservationists, but many feel powerless to take it to the next level because the power of change still rests with men. 

Women are increasingly becoming targets in sorcery accusation-related violence, and one woman has made it her life's mission to stamp it out. 

Studies show many western women are drinking too much. In some cases, they now drink as much as men. But is this also the case in the Pacific?

Bringing a baby into the world is meant to be a joyous occasion but imagine going through this during a natural disaster. With the impacts of climate change, more pregnant women and newborns will be affected.

When women haven't been able to finish school, the impacts of illiteracy are enormous and affects the entire family's health and wellbeing. But a growing number are taking adult classes and their transformation is mindblowing.

Storytelling is woven deep into the Pacific cultural fabric, passed down from one generation to another for thousands of years. But it's facing a very modern threat.

Hilda Wayne speaks to a woman who served time behind bars in Fiji and finds out from women offering on-the-ground support what the path to rehabilitation involves.

Type 2 diabetes is one of the biggest health issues facing people in the Pacific, and the World Health Organisation suggests women may be the key to stopping it. But does this place yet another burden on them?

Throughout the Pacific, sex work is illegal and it's seen as a great sin, but that hasn't stopped many women taking up the oldest profession - and for very different reasons.

Following scenes of corruption, vote stealing and massacres, one woman is determined to see change in PNG politics

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women about the changing pressures of caring for the elderly .

Some Pacific men are using social media platforms to punch down on Pacific women

West Papuan Rode Wanimbo is a champion for human rights and speaks about the intersections of her culture, her Christianity and her womanhood.

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women about studying abroad and bringing vital services back to their communities

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women about what it is really like to live with disability

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women about the lazy men in their lives and how the gendered division of labour contributes to the problem.

Hilda Wayne talks to sexual health experts about the rapid rise of chlamydia in the Pacific.

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island journalists about their experiences reporting in the Pacific region.

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women who are the eldest sister in their family about the challenges and rewards of this unique role.

Hilda Wayne talks to Pacific Island women and gender diverse people about the experience of being LGBTQI in the Pacific region.