Loading Docs 2020 - One Year On

New Zealand is the world's leader in being complacent, in fact talking about racism is probably just as hard as it was a year ago...

– Guled Mire delivers his thoughts on discussing racism in New Zealand in 2020

You have given a lot to the young generation and they can see someone that is like them standing up to the Government policies...

– Mire's friend Sahra Ahmed reassures him that his voice is making a difference

Guled Mire...has not learned that New Zealanders resent being told what to do by outsiders or newcomers...

– Excerpt from a 2019 letter to the editor in The Press (Christchurch)

In less than 24 hours, I unexpectedly and reluctantly found myself becoming a voice for the Muslim community while still coming to terms with the gravity of the devastation unfolding before me. I soon found myself on one of the biggest breakfast television shows in the country, speaking out about our shameful secret of racism and the conditions that paved the way for such a horrific hate-filled massacre to occur.

– Guled Mire on becoming a community voice after the horrific attacks of March 15, 2019, The Spinoff, 31 August 2020

New Zealand is constantly saying " New Zealand lost its innocence on March 15", I lost my innocence the moment I put my hajib on and I was ten years old.

– A friend of Guled Mire on the narrative about the March 15 massacre, and her reality