Te Hoia, Q and Rosina navigate Tāmaki Makaurau over one sweltering day, negotiating racism, art, politics, colonisation, identity, gentrification and tellingly, bus travel. Coco Solid’s recent and exhilarating novella, street-smart prose finds space next to excerpts of essays, art, line-drawings and cultural ephemera, formulating a new language for talking about life as only Solid’s trio know it. Join Coco Solid and Māni Dunlop as they discuss the language of loitering –– how we are allowed to take up space, how we occupy our streets, and how we navigate a new language for our times.

‘...a life-raft for brown kids swimming against the whirlpools of urban realities…. Painfully perceptive, familiar and hopeful.’ — Lana Lopesi

Coco Solid