Race Matters: Recent Episodes
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Conversations for people trying to understand the value in their racial and cultural identity. Hosted by Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis.
The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded ~ Angela Davis
Beyond the Bars is a Prison Radio broadcast by 3CR that aired during NAIDOC Week 2026 .
This special episode is a syndication of Monday July 6ths broadcast from Dame Phyllis Front Centre in greater Victoria, hosted by Shiralee Hood, Tash Norris and Nayuka Hood
Special thanks to the labour and love of Juliet Fox, Michaela Stubbs and the 3CR team, Samantha Haran and Shareeka Helaluddin.
Hosted by Gabriella Accaria and Leya Kim
Produced by Kwame Slusher and Prinita Thevarajah
Sound Design by Leya Kim
Graphics by Malaak
ACAB Betty and Piggy Patrol by Rubyrose Bancroft @rubyrosebancroft
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Poet, musician and cultural visionary Saul Williams joins Yorta Yorta artist, writer and activist Neil Morris for a conversation that traces the colonial logics hidden in plain sight. From Wall Street to Boundary Street, they unpack how empire is built through naming, branding, borders and memory, and how these structures continue to shape the worlds we inherit.
Together, they explore racial capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, solidarity across occupied lands, and the role of art and language in imagining futures beyond colonialism. Spanning Turtle Island and so-called Australia, this is a conversation about refusing inherited narratives and creating new ways of seeing, speaking and belonging.
This episode was produced and hosted by Wiradjuri baddie, Ethan Lyons for Race Matters on FBi Radio.
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“Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient.” - Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood.
The dawn of generative AI may seem like a whole new age - but in reality, it is part of an ancient history. Today on the show, Sara El Youghun, Joannie Lee, Janey Li and Samantha Haran come together to map this new genAI tech within the longer history of capitalist-imperialist surveillance and exploitation.
Sara and Joannie discuss how they’re feeling in this moment as AI technologies are seemingly taking over. Sara reminds us of the science fiction of our childhoods that mirror the moment we are now living, and Joannie speaks to her recent experiences in community organising against the planned data centres in Western Sydney. Together, they reflect on strategies of organising, resistance and imagination. They listen through an interview that Janey and Samantha did with digital surveillance researcher and organiser, D.R. Sooriya. D reflects on and illuminates the fact amidst the outrage and uncertainty around what this new age of AI means, what we should most be focused on is the way it forms part of a longer, larger and deeper project on the part of tech billlionaries to force us into a certain kind of future. Most importantly, D reminds us that we are not helpless against this tirade - we can resist these techno-fascist futures, and build our own worlds in their place.
Produced by Joannie Lee and Samantha Haran
Episode artwork by Janey Li
HOPECORE: ANTI-AI ORGANISING FROM AROUND THE WORLD
The Luddite Club
No Tech for Apartheid
Data Workers Inquiry
Recent win - Boorloo/Perth data centre plan revoked
Get involved with Stop the Slop! Campaign to stop the data centres in Western Sydney (join the Whatsapp channel)
Upscrolled (social media platform built by Palestinian organisers)
FURTHER RESOURCES
Hell is Empty and the Devils Are All Here: AI and Imperialism in the Current Crisis
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence - Kate Crawford
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference - Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future - Roberto Gonzales
Imagination: A Manifesto - Ruha Benjamin
Glitch feminism: A Manifesto - Legacy Russell
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'There are two issues of our time really, that I think amount to a litmus test for morality as far as I'm concerned. One is what you're prepared to do on behalf of the Palestinian people and the other is what are you prepared to do on behalf of gay and lesbian people?"
- Black, queer poet and activist June Jordan in an interview for 'A Place of Rage' (1991) by Prabhita Parmar
What are people willing to do for the Palestinian cause? This is a question that Sara sifts through with Lebanese activist Ahmad Khochaiche and comrade to Maxime Camo, the spokesperson for the Australian arm of 'A Thousand Madleens' the freedom flotilla dedicated to organising civilians to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Amidst the conflicting emotions of rage and survival, in holding the privilege of existing removed from the bombings, Sara invites us to expand our perspective on our personal agency, like embarking for a journey right to Gaza, that will alchemise our grief for the Palestinian cause.
This episode was hosted by Sara El Youghun, produced by Yvonne Hong with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah. Huge thanks to Ahmad Khochaiche and Maxime Camo for being guests on today's show.
Resources:
★ Donate to A Thousand Madleens here.
★ Donate to Australian Palestine Advocacy Network here.
★ Buy After the Last Sky, a compilation album by Al Gharib dedicated “For the Children of Gaza” (a record label based in Tripoli, Lebanon). Proceeds go to the Dalia Association.
★ Read June Jordan's 'Poetry For Palestine' here.
★ Read how humanitarian aid has been transformed into a political instrument of coercion and control in Gaza here.
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Sehej, Leya and Yvonne hop into the studio today to chat about the history of looksmaxxing as an inherited tradition for all oppressed people.
Inspired by texts on the 'Politics of Being Ugly', digressions include Jia Tolentino's 'The Age of Instagram Face', the distinctions between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and looksmaxxing as self-surveillance for brown Women of Colour.
This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah.
cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria
Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise this is different for all experiences of gender, culture and bodies.
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This episode is a love letter to everyone mothering on stolen land, in displaced bodies, in the precarity of modernity. It is a reminder that queer and Indigenous ways of childrearing and matrilineal care are often similar practices. One and a half years into raising a child and a lifetime into raising themselves in community, executive producer Prinita Thevarajah collages conversations with Vanessa Marian Varghese, Midori Mukai and Ella Noah Bancroft to reveal the ultimate truth: that the violence of modernity world was built off womb envy, and that carework is crucial to survive fascism.
Vanessa Marian Varghese is a writer, movement director and community builder exploring movement, identity and contemporary culture through film, live performance and immersive experiences
Midori Mukai is a Tkaronto/Toronto based artist and arts facilitator — her creative practice explores ceramics and fine craft. Informed by ancestry, her work highlights traditional approaches off-centre from the Western lens
Ella Noah Bancroft is a descendent of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation and has bloodlines to England, Poland and Scotland. Australian born artist, storyteller, mentor and founder of “The Returning”. Ella Noah Bancroft is a pioneer for The Decolonisation movement. Through her writing and work Ella has been promoting re-wilding, the rise of the female energy, as way back to deep relationship nature and decolonizing of personal, social and ecological well-being for 10 years.She is widely respected amongst her community and believes in local communities with local economies as a way to find hope for the health of our planet and people.
For more on The Returning visit: https://www.thereturning.com.au/
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For this special episode of Race Matters, we are joined by Boe Spearim from Frontier War Stories, Gamilaraay and Kooma activisit and Dad who has been archiving so called Australiaʼs first wars since 2020. Frontier War Stories is a podcast that details across the continent, the wars waged by the colonising British, the massacres and horific dehumanisation that was used as a strategy of genocide by the settling empire and the profoundly dedicated resistance held by Aboriginal warriors.
Joined by King, a Ghanian/Wiradjuri creative and newest member of the RM team, these episode dives deeper into the lore of Pemuwluy and Dundali. Pemulwuy, being the first resistance fighter against the colony, organising and leading mob to retaliate against the genocidal regime. Dundali, being the last publicly hung warrior, a symbol of the colonisers to others considering resistance.
Over a weekend that memorialises one version of history that seemingly erases the Truth about what happened on this land, this episode reminds us of the ways colonising nation states utilise propaganda and dehumanise resistance.
With a special thanks to Clothing the Gap for sponsoring this episode. We are so grateful to be joined by Boe as we attempt to subvert the revisionist history of so called Australia.
Audio including sound bites of Malabar Beach, Parramatta and Magandjin CBD
Marcia Langton on Pemulwuy for the ABC
Uncle Coco at the 2020 Dundali Remembrance Day in Magandjin
Pray by DRMNGNOW
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We are bound by the same chains, therefore we must forge the same key. Two stories of interconnected struggles and how we can forge the tools towards freedom.
Day Soriano chats to Sunday of Philippines liberation movement Anakbayan on yearning itself can be a weapon, and that until the diaspora can return, they must continue to fight the struggle of the people no matter where they are. Then, Virginia Barahona with Yung Prodigy cofounder Maia Ihemeje on the ripple effects of parental/kinship incarceration and how their work with young people is guiding us towards a more free and connected world from the ground up.
𖡼 Join YP and their freedom on the line campaign to make prison calls free.
𖡼 Follow Anakbayan Syd for more on their movement building
𖡼 Stay updated with the Thousand Madleens flotilla getting aid to occupied Gaza, and their fundraiser in April
SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.
𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.
𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo
𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong
𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao
𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran
𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Thevarajah
𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney
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From the rivers of Chile, the mountains of Gyeonggi-do, to the Cumberland Highway, exploring what it means to be and live and remember in relation to place.
Our first episode in collaboration with abolitionist youth organisation Yung Prodigy, after a mentorship exploring radical radio from the roots up. Two debut works by Lucy Norton and a newfound colalbroation between Leya and Sehej Kaur Sehmbhi. The many sounds, textures and frays that tether us to place, family or memory.
SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.
𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.
𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo
𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong
𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao
𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran
𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Theverajah
𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney
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Extreme music for people with extreme experiences.
Noise is a genre that can be misunderstood as anti-social and harsh, but for our guest producer artist Carmen Mercedes Gago Schieb aka Society of Cutting Up Men (S.C.U.M); it’s been a vital source of place-making and connection.
Alongside artists Rosa / Making Out and Yvette Ofa Agapow, she brings us an interstate perspective on the purpose of noise in the face of identity politics, and the possibility of noise as a transmission for freedom.
This episode was produced by Carmen Mercedes Gago Schieb with creative direction and final audio production by Shareeka Helaluddin. Image of Carmen by Valerie Joy, songs courtesy of the artists.
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A bittersweet send off to Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin who has metamorphed Race Matters into the ever abundant, ever expansive program that it is.
Previous producers Darren Lesaguis and Tanya Ali bear witness to Shareeka's shepherding of the show, bringing to mic the unheard and the unseen.
Also hearing from six of the Race Matter's current producers, Sara El Younghun, Toobs, Joannie Lee, Sehej Kaur, Yvonne Hong and Samantha Haran who reflect on the legacy of Shareeka, and her embodiment of anti racist community organising though radio as craft.
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We know that what we do today is intiamtely connected with what has been done before.
Samantha Haran and Tim Worton reflect as kinfolk on their journey with Race Matters, and expanding into their queerness.
They pay tribute to the episodes and producers that drew them into community, and challenged them into evolving and unfurling their embodiment of queerness in so called Australia, as two young queer people of colour. With reverence and gratitude to those who created space for us here: Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, Rhyan Clapham, Georgia Mokak & Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Sehej Kaur and Wen Pei Low share a tender and vulnerable episode about their friendship and celebrate queer and crip kinship together.
They share stories of navigating sterile, western medical systems and how they found and held each other through it all. They dream of crip futures that move beyond simply surviving and toward thriving.
Sehej reads a poem by Dom Kelly that is titled “an elegy for a crip friend (thank you alice). You can find it here
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHzspHEYGq/?img_index=4
You can find Wen Pei on instagram @_waterclover.
This podcast was edited by Prinita Thevarajah.
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"We have been doing this because we love our people”
Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghun welcome Moh, a community builder and organiser from Myanmar to talk about her peoples’ fight for freedom, self-determination and justice from brutal military imperialism. Together they talk about taking pride in our solidarity and what it takes to keep our collective movement for liberation alive and interconnected. We honour the people fighting on the ground in Myanmar and look to them to hold steadfast here in this colony.
The people of Myanmar will not be forgotten. You can check out more info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/s/all-in-one-piece-movement-sydn/4291906044463956
Many thanks to Janey Li for producing this episode and our beloved Executive Producer, Shareeka Helaluddin for all her support. Podcast mixed by Janey Li.
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"I want it to feel like you're in my living room including the chaos"
On today's show, Alicia Zhao and Bruce Koussaba (of Liberation Cinema) are in conversation with the brilliant and staunch organiser of Miya Miya Film Club, Karim Nasser. Miya Miya is a grassroots, community film screening space, carved out as a gathering place for discovery, dialogue and connection - centred around cinema from the SWANA region. Together, Alicia, Bruce and Karim talk about why these independent microcinema spaces matter, how they reshape possibility, and act as a conduit for building a more expansive creative scene in so-called Sydney.
Learn more about Miya Miya here:
Website: https://www.miyamiyafilmclub.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/miyamiyafilmclub
Next event: https://www.miyamiyafilmclub.com/upcoming-events/i-cant-think-straight
This episode was produced by Alicia Zhao and Bruce Koussaba, with support from Samantha Haran. Podcast production by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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To be able to truly envision better world—not just in vague outlines, but vividly in all its colour and brilliance, so much so that you begin to taste on it on your tongue—is the first step to making revolution.
A special collaboration with R.T. Samuel takes us on a journey through their deep and abiding love of speculative fiction, and the possibilities in holds for liberatory world-making, particular Dalit futurisms. RT is a Dalit cultural producer working between London and New Delhi, and a co-editor of the speculative fiction collection, 'The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF.' In conversation with different writers from the anthology including Rahee Punyashloka / Artedkar and Hameedha Khan; RT roams across a range of South Asian histories of oppression and resistance, and explores how science fiction can up open new ways of seeing the world.
Learn moreThe Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF: https://www.blaft.com/products/the-blaft-book-of-anti-caste-sf
Follow RT's work via their instagram
Anti-caste SF is available locally in-person or online through the Magenta House
This piece was produced by R. T. Samuel with additional sound design and supervision by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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How do we sustain ourselves for the revolution?
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is a multi award-winning novelist, human rights advocate, lawyer and sociologist researching Arab & Muslim social justice movements, Islamophobia and the war on terror. Yvonne Hong and Sara El Youghun are joined by Randa in conversation about the release of her new book Discipline, unpacking the daily reality of what it is to reconcile living in a world that dehumanises and censors you as a Palestinian.
Randa speaks about the power of creative fiction and the imagination to change the world; finding joy, discipline and building spaces we can nourish each other to be able to appreciate what are we fighting for, not just what we’re fighting against.
You can order Discipline here from UQP.
Special thanks to Sarah Valle for helping coordinate the interview, Shareeka Helaluddin, Samantha Haran and Alicia Zhao for producing this episode
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How do we rely on each other and take ownership of our collective liberation?
Sehej and Janey take us through sites of DIY culture and alternative economies. From ad-hoc sound systems in Bengal, a sound tower in Palestine, to enclaves and car parks of Wentworthville; exploring ecologies of repair and world building in refusal of extractive colonial power.
Together they remind us that the way we mend and repair fosters our ability to relate to, care for and sustain each other.
Works mentioned --
Club Chai HOT CUE Installation Score
Gaza Sound Tower (Minaret)
West Bengal Sound System
Heart Armour
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A love letter to the hearts and labour of community radio, beaming from a shipping container in Brixton, London aka Reprezent Radio.
Binta Yade is a London-based poet, community builder, storyteller and legacy community radio broadcaster. This is her ode to the radio station that she calls home, and the many people that keep it going through tireless amount of time, love, music selecting, teaching. Despite it all, community radio is somewhere we all return to, where we belong.
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How do you ground your work in the sacredness of life while needing to speak back to the very powers destroying them?
Shareeka Helaluddin and Tommy Boutros speak to journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad, following the release of his aching and relentless title "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This." The work pieces together words and narratives displaced by the violence of empire, while beckoning us to move beyond trying to find words but to move into actioned compelled by the desire to preserve the sacredness of human lives.
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"I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth..."
These poetic words by Black revolutionary Assata Shakur reverberate through the work of Munanjahli and South Sea Islander scholar, writer and truth-teller Dr. Chelsea Watego, in conversation with Samantha Haran and Ethan Lyons.
Chelsea is known for her fierce commitment to justice and unapologetic advocacy for First Nations sovereignty and people. She is the author of the groundbreaking book Another Day in the Colony, a leading thinker, and the founding director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research.
In discussing her upcoming book Black Thoughts Matter, Chelsea speaks about welcoming rage and spite as a fertiliser for projects of love and honouring the legacy of Black feminist radicals. Their conversation further explores her experiences of the power of Blackfulla solidarity and joy with global struggles for Indigenous resistance and sovereignty from Palestine to West Papau.
You can buy Chelsea's new book Black Thoughts Matter from Common Room Editions here.
With thanks to Shanel Cubillo and Anna Carlson for helping coordinate the interview, Alicia Zhao for producing this episode and our beloved Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin for all her support.
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Non-linear sounds, improvising as spiritual catharsis, computer coding as companion.
Sehej Kaur & Alicia Zhao immerse into the sound worlds of naarm-based artist Nū. Utilising live coding, Ethiopian samples, gospel trills and reclaiming non-linear time. We unearth the world-building of TECHNOFRO and relinquish into the divine unknown of hope and possibility.
This episode includes clips from Nū's songs Bati and Night Time.
Listen to more of Nū here: https://nu-nu.bandcamp.com/
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What does it mean that desire, even queer desire, is built on dead bodies? What happens when we realise that our desires, even our most intimate, erotic ones, may be rooted in specific, traceable violence and death?
Wiradjuri baddie and alleged tender queer Ethan Lyons on all things TWINK. The desire, the violence, the whiteness of it all. Joined by his dear friend David Soriano, on discerning the colonial parasite, the reproduction of racist harm in gay communities, non western queerness and how we can live truly as queer people, embracing decolonial practices.
This episode references the work if Driftpile Cree Nation writer Billy Ray Belcourt and the work of queer thinker Martin F. Manalansan, Global Divas.
Produced and edited by Ethan Lyons, with creative advice from Shareeka Helaluddin. Podcast edited and produced by Samantha Haran.
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“Breath. Something we all have in common, yet most take for granted”
An invitation to listen in, attune to, hold breath and be in solidarity with those in our community living with Long Covid. In collaboration with Dr Poppy de Souza, we bring you stories gathered from her Holding Breath exchange and from the Race Matters community, reflecting on their experiences and responding to: what do we carry with us? what do we leave behind? Together, these voices bring collective wisdom, and offer ways of living with/in embodied discomfort and crip ways of moving through the world.
Continue to learn more about Poppy’s work, and to listen in solidarity and connect with Long Covid in our racial justice struggle:
Holding Breath project
Jenna Bitar’s essay in Sick Times “Instead of supporting people with Long Covid, our government funds a genocide”
Still Here podcast from The Sick Times
Breathing 4 Justice - exploring the intersections of long Covid and disability justice (U.S.)
The Colour of Long COVID series, supported by the Disability Visibility Project
This episode was facilitated by, co-produced and edited by Samantha Haran. Scripting, piano composition, invitations and co-production by Poppy de Souza. Supervising production and creative contributions by Shareeka Helaluddin. Graphics for our community call-out by Judy Ko, arranged by Sehej Kaur Sehmbhi. Image is from contributor Jody Haines, from Tommeginne Country, their ancestral lands where they can breathe most deeply.
Holding Breath Episode Transcript
With gratitude to all those who contributed to this episode and gave us the trust to uplift your narratives of Long Covid, and our love to those impacted by its grief and loss.
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"We are in a decolonial moment, we need the energy to keep going"
A conversation between Shareeka Helaluddin and astrologer, spirit worker for the liberation, Ra Life. Hear them on what it is to use their gifts in the toolkit for revolution, guiding people to tap into their capacity and ancestral wisdom as tactic for political organising. Less woo woo, more depth and fury.
Produced, hosted and sound designed by Shareeka Helaluddin
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"... and in truth it is a story that is not mine nor hers; I am searching for the shape of what is ours."
Hear Sara and Joannie are in conversation with Palestinian writer and academic Micaela Sahhar. Together, they discuss Micaela’s gorgeous new memoir, 'Find Me At The Jaffa Gate,’ which aims to assemble and reclaim the story of her family through fractured memories, objects and places. This conversation explores how both objects and music can hold and preserve memory, the complexity of being heard amidst censorship and the importance of the anti-colonial archive.
Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin and Samantha Haran. Podcast edited and sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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How do we understand hope as something within ourselves, and not as a far off horizon?
A conversation with anti-oppressive therapist and educator Leah Manaema Avene on their expansive practice rooted in abolition, love, repair and the strategies to transform harmful power dynamics in bodies, relationships and systems. A sprawling dialogue spanning themes of rupture, hope, and the will to keep moving towards revolution.
Image: Leah Avene by Amos Gebhardt part of an interview series MÅNGATA and photography exhibition.
This episode was hosted, produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Podcast edit by Yvonne Hong.
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"You have to speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
What does it mean to commemorate Nakba, not as a singular historical act, but as a way to honour the resistance that has continued long before October 7th?
A conversation with Dana Kafina from 3ain Radio and Toobs Anwar.
This episode was hosted and produced by Toobs Anwar, with final audio editing by Shareeka Helaluddin. Live broadcast producing by Alicia Zhao.
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Without truth, what ground is there to stand on?
We started this piece into Creative Australia's appalling decision to rescind Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi's position from the Venice Bienele, however over many weeks this piece evolved beyond one act of silencing. We are watching the normalisation of this genocide, enabled by imperial mechanisms of censorship, and as creatives how do we grapple with our responsibilities to this while honoring the fight of Palestinian liberation?
This episode brings together four artists, organisers and truth-tellers, who have been sounding out the call of institutional collapse so we can see these structures for what they are, and resist. Each conversation offers us clarity on the humanity that is at stake and strategies to ground in resistance, alterity and refusal.
Episode credits
Sehej Kaur and Sara El-Youghan speaking with Palestinian artist Feras Shaheen, and poet Omar Sakr
Alicia Zhao with illustrator and organiser Matt Chun
Toobs Anwar in conversation with poet, educator, and arts worker Hasib Hourani
Scripting and narration by Janey Li
Supervising Producer Allison Chan
Creative direction, final mixing and additional Sound design by Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin
Above all we honor the martyrs, the fighters and the families of Palestine. We remain committed to the sacredness of all Palestinian life and liberation. We hear the Palestinian call - “We will not be silenced"
Image: Samar Abu Elouf via The Sunday Paper
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We’re not just data, we are storytellers. Sometimes, the most radical thing we can do is speak, loudly and deliberately, into futures we get to shape ourselves.
Ethan and Janey are joined by Nyungar technologist and futurist Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker to traverse the world of machine tech and human autonomy, learning how their work reimagines the embodied and expansive possibilities of a First Nations practice in tech. Across her poetry, speculative-fiction and tech justice advocacy reminds us that even in systems built to monitor, there’s power in reclaiming how we’re heard.
This episode was co-produced and co-hosted by Ethan Lyons and Janey Li. Supervising Production and sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin. Podcast edited by Yvonne Hong.
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“We only have wood and stone to fight with to preserve our life”
The words of young activists from Kanaky (so-called New Caledonia) who are engaged in fights to reclaim their land from French occupation, fighting for life and independence. Ethan and Shareeka speak to Roscoe, a special rapporteur for Radio RATA, a decolonial media, culture and mutual aid network, operating across the Pacific. Roscoe has been pivotal in establishing networks and connections with the Indigenous people of Kanaky. Through his work we learn that colonial systems are not the only thing that can duplicate and expand borders -- so can Indigenous knowledge and solidarity.
This episode was co-produced and co-hosted by Ethan Lyons and Shareeka Helaluddin. Audio editing by Ethan Lyons, sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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"We're holding hope for other people and each other, and that's what the peer model is."
Content Note: this episode contains mentions of suicidality.
Queer Muslim baddie takeover ~ in dedication to Imam Muhsin Hendricks - Allah Yerahmo. The intersections of queerness, religion, and ethnic identity are so heavily intertwined and (sometimes) difficult to reconcile. Join Host Sara El Youghun, Mohammad and Aiysha of the Multicultural Peers Project to speak on queerness and Islam, the struggle with mental health and synergising these values to emerge into adulthood in queer, Muslim pride. Multicultural Peers Project is a Western Sydney initiative aimed at helping queer and trans youth from Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian and Muslim backgrounds in NSW. You can connect with them on Instagram at @multiculturalpeersproject - a bastion of ethnic, empathetic therapy.
This episode was hosted by Sara El Youghun, supervised by Shareeka Helaluddin, produced by Yvonne Hong, and Janey Li assisted on social media.
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Can writing be a political practice? How do you write in a way that serves liberation, the making of better worlds?
Today Samantha and Bipasha are in conversation with Fabliha Yeaqub, a queer Bangladeshi writer, artist and community organiser based in so-called New York. We are talking about her journey with writing as catharsis and as rebellion, how it relates to her political work, and what it means to forge community connections amidst the individualist culture of the West. This episode is grounded in June Jordan's timeless words: I must become a menace to my enemies.
Connect with Fabliha’s work
Fabliha’s piece 'muslim girlhood is a knife. you kill us, and yet we will live forever’: https://fablihayeaqub.substack.com/p/muslim-girlhood-is-a-knife-you-kill
Website: https://www.fablihayeaqub.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fablihayeaqub/
Marigold Seeds Collective: https://www.instagram.com/marigoldseedscollective/
Amader Dawat: https://www.instagram.com/amaderdawat/
June Jordan’s I Must Become a Menace to my Enemies: https://poets.org/poem/i-must-become-menace-my-enemies
This episode was co-produced and co-hosted by Samantha Haran and Bipasha Roy, Audio editing by Bipasha Roy, Supervising Producer was Tanya Ali, Executive producer and final mixing by Shareeka Helaluddin
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It takes a femme queen.
Movement as liberation, and the spirituality of performance. Join Ethan Lyons and Tim Worton in deep kiki with the Ruby of Western Sydney, vogue diva from the House of Silky, Jubahlee talking the love and kinship within the ballroom scene.
This episode was produced and hosted by Ethan Lyons and Tim Worton, with Supervising Production and podcast edit by Shareeka Helaluddin
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“I’m a child of the revolution”
Theatre as protest, storytelling as weapon. Fifty two years since the inception of Black Theatre - the subversive art form that spoke back to the colony and incited the beginning of community controlled services; resonates to this day. We’re so honoured to be speaking with Angeline Penrith, the creative director and curator of Redfern Renaissance. Angeline is a Wiradjuri & Yuin actor and story teller, a proud Redfern local and from a trailblazing family of activists and storytellers.
Show up, everyday for First Nations resistance
Black Caucus - mutual aid and local actions
Action for Public Housing - resisting gentrification of Redfern, fighting for housing rights
Black Peoples Union - revolutionary organisation that pursuing full self-determination and Sovereignty
Survival Guide on Radio Skid Row - archive of conversations hosted by Joel Spring and Lorna Munro on the history of Black resistance and the destruction from gentrification, in Redfern.
Pay the rent
Black Caucus - mutual aid funds
Deadly Connections
Decolonise Sex Work - mutual aid funds
Grandmothers Against Removal NSW
Stop Black Deaths in Custody content note for names and images of deceased peoples
This episode was collaboratively produced, hosted and edited by Alicia Zhao and Shareeka Helaluddin.
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A collision of sounds and a system built through found materials transforming every space it enters.
Guest hosts (and fbi family) Madi Martin-Bygrave and Virginia Barahona chat to DJ, community-builder and artist Lulu Quintanilla. Her hand built sound systems are a conduit for questioning culture in a particular moment. An emblem of her candour and DIY ethos where transmuting possibility is found in the club, a youtube archive or a community gathering.
This episode was produced and hosted by Madi Martin-Bygrave and Virginia Barahona, with supervising production and audio editing by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Not only is this Dunya temporary, it is also worth saving. Until we are all free.
Open your ears and hearts with Sara El Youghun and Attu Ngor as they have a vulnerable chat with artist, poet, and kin Mustafa. Together they explore his new album Dunya, dedicated to those still living in this world, fighting, praying, grieving and holding on to hope.
Mustafa tells us about the importance of faith, culture and community as a lifeline. Sharing his Nubian roots in relation to Islam, Mustafa invites us to his world with dance and mercy, reminding us of the importance of growing together rather than apart.
This episode was made possible by Shareeka Helaluddin and greatly contributed to by Tim Worton, Mateo Baskaran and Toobs.
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Repping the Black Caucus and some of the staunch advocates he organises alongside, Wiradjuri organiser and creative Ethan Lyons joins us as guest host.
Stories that ode his matrilineal teachers, movements across black resistance, solidarities across borders and how young people can find their space in liberatory movements. Plus, a track list of queer, Black and First Nations excellence selected by Ethan.
Continue to follow, learn, get organised and show material solidarity
In conversation: Uncle Robbie Thorpe, Kieran Stewart-Asherton and Uncle Coco on 3CR Radical Radio
Follow Ethan's work
Aunty Lizzie Jarret
Justice for David Dungay Junior Campaign
@blakcaucus
@firstnationsresponse
@sydtentembassy
@paulsilva69
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Objects tell their stories if you let them.
Bringing together inane objects, tapestries, Musiviri paintings and self portraits; Nusra Latif Qureshi work recognises the cracks within imperial institutions and reveals a complex beauty. Sehej Kaur and Toobs bring us an in depth interview with the Pakistani visual artist, who has spent many years reclaiming the Musiviri art form, alchemising it into a political statement and tool for autonomy.
Birds in Far Pavilions is on at the Art Gallery of NSW until 15 June 2025.
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Fourteen years too long, permanent visas and protection now.
Content note: this episode traces the cruelty of state violence and asylum seeking experiences, with mention of suicide. There is no graphic detail, however we ask that you take care when listening in.
Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghan take us to the Refugee Encampment in Punchbowl, at the 24-hour Protest. Passing its 111th day, many have been waiting outside Minister Tony Burke's office seeking stability and an end to the temporary visa system that leaves them in precarious, unjust work and life conditions. Solidarity to all those fighting the violence of borders, and those who had the courage to share their stories with us.
Listen in, take action through Tamil Refguee Council / @trcaustralia
This episode was produced by Joannie Lee and co-hosted by Sara El Youghan. Special thanks to Janey Li and and Samantha Haran who joined the encampment and assisted in recording. Shareeka Helaluddin was the supervising producer.
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What does accessibility to sexual liberation really mean?
Content warning: this interview contains mention of sexual violence.
Alicia Zhao shares an intimate dialogue with friend, artist and advocate Dakota Quin. Facing the question of the body no longer being a productive vessel for capitalism, Dakota’s artistic and activist work seeks to find the pleasure and possibilities of embodied liberation. We learn about their story and how it culminated in the upcoming film, Unspeakable, a body of work in collaboration with Esther Bridget Joy.
Read more about and support the Unspeakable documentary: Rediscovering Sexual Liberation After Sexual Violence, and follow their instagram for updates.
Produced and hosted by Alicia Zhao
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran
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A tale of two Dilwale's: Mateo and Bipasha move through the phenomena of Bollywood cinema and its grasp on broader subcontinental culture. Specifically, a classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and it's less-regarded not-so-classic Dilwale (2015), both starring the inimitable SRK and Kajol.
They trace their relationships with growing up with Bollywood cinema, recount watching these films five hours back to back; and reflect on the depths and contradictions of these cultural outputs.
Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Hosted by Bipasha Roy and Mateo Baskaran
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran
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Race Matters as found family, as a liberation practice, as a space to play. Settle into a grounded and cosy episode hearing the newest voices on air and behind the scenes:
Yvonne, Hong, Aysenur Kara, Janey Li guided in conversation by Alicia Zhao
Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran
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"The people’s blood won’t stain our hands" - the words decried from a recent direct action in Athens where the port workers took industrial action to stop the shipment of Israeli arms. This is an example of a way we can boycott, divest and sanction in our everyday lives.
We're joined by staunch, third-generation Palestinian organiser and advocate Rand Khatib to take us through the legacy of resistance in her blood, and the power of collective action through BDS actions that Palestinians have long-called for. Every day, there are non-violent, material ways we can commit to the end of occupation.
We also also hear from those in our local community practicing BDS and what their experiences of learning this, have been.
Join us: BDS actions is so-called Australia
National week of BDS Action
National Day of Action against Caltex November 16
Global BDS updates
Hosted and produced by Toobs and Joannie Lee, with voice notes from Betty, Christie and Jess edited by Joannie Lee
Executive produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran
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Your feelings are your responsibility.
Content Note: this episode contains mention of explicit sexual content and swearing.
A final sharing from our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries, hosted by Jasmine Raat Ki Raani. A sensual and galvanising take down of white feminism and fragility. We hear the intimate experiences of workers Natasha, Tamil King and Korie, on the pleasures and truths of navigating different spaces in the sex industry. The series artwork is by Katy Cao.
In the introduction, Jasmine is reading from Against White Feminism: Rafia Zakaria
This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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COVID is not over. It is still here. This is an invitation to understand that reality, and to let it transform you.
Grounded in disability justice, and brought to you by a chorus of staunch disabled voices: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Darcy from Sick/Sovereign, Tori Hobbs and Julia Rose Bak from The Disability Justice Network and Li from COVID Solidarity ‘syd.’
Produced by Samantha Haran, Shareeka Helaluddin & Sehej Kaur. Additional thanks to Justin Chen, Allison Chan and Juliet Fox.
Episode artwork by Li @eternallyuncomfortable
Arundhati Roy on ‘The pandemic is a portal’: https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
COVID resources:
- Let Them Eat Plague! (Intro to COVID politics and basic COVID myth busting): https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-plague/
- You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence (Mia Mingus) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/
- How to do COVID Conscious events resource (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kf1AKdE0j5k2hqIOvIjeS4tYzxgsoar6SOot6JklLE4/edit
- NSW COVID safer venues database (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAN1QE_4_b5JSzwooQSEXwlM995UusdU9w4rswRecZ0/edit?gid=1146046115#gid=1146046115
- What to do if you have COVID (by The Peoples CDC - US based): https://peoplescdc.org/2023/01/10/what-to-do-if-you-have-covid/
Support the rich chorus of voices that made this episode possible:
- Read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s latest book: https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/
- Read the Sick/Sovereign zine: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/policy-and-events/policy/covid-19/resources/first-nations-zine/
- Darcy’s work with Blackfulla Alt2Su: https://instagram.com/BlackfullaAlt2Su
- Join the Disability Justice Network facebook group (disabled people only): https://www.facebook.com/share/g/zYoTbvvRLkQYYSJz/?mibextid=adzO7l
- Donate to the Disability Justice Network mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/disability-justice-network-mutual-aid-fund
- Follow COVID Solidarity ‘syd’: https://www.instagram.com/c0vidsolidaritysyd/
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Would you make a good revolutionary leader? What would you do when the playable revolution corrupts? Mateo and Sara are joined by Berlin-based revolutionary game designer and artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, to question the role of video games in possibility and conversation.
Find out more about Muriel Tramis
Play Danielle’s work:
Black Trans Archive
I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU ANYMORE
Co-host and Interview: Sara El Youghun and Mateo Baskaran
Produced by: Janey Li
Executive Producer: Shareeka Helaluddin
Additional music and visuals from Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley courtesy of the artist.
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What comes to mind when you hear “language under occupation”? We're joined by Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator, Hasib Hourani to move through this question and making language a vessel for critique, resistance and play.
Liminal Festival is happening at The Wheeler Centre (Victoria) and online from August 2-4. To learn more about this ground-breaking literary festival, visit this site. Hasib will appear at the event Language Under Occupation alongside Evelyn Araluen and Mykaela Saunders.
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What is it to hold the heartbreak of facing a world of systemic injustice, and turn it into energy and meanignful action?
We're joined by Inez, a radio broadcaster on 3CR's Thursday Breakfast, community organiser and mental health worker. An intimate chat on navigating hurt and anger of dealing with systemic injustice, processing the recent Indian election and its impact, and how a solidarity with Falasteen has nurtured a retuning to their Sikh faith.
In this spirit, Inez has shared some foundational texts and further reading - "these thoughts and sentiments follow a long lineage of radical Black, Indigenous, and/or Muslim female writers, organisers, and revolutionaries - long before me"
- Dr Ayesha Khan: Care, Relationships and Direct Action
- Audre Lorde: Your Silence Won't Protect You
- Palestinian Narrative Therapy book - "Responding to Trauma That is Not Past" written by Palestinians trauma counsellors and psychologists and ex-detainees.
Support
- Gaza Mutual Aid
- Sudan Updates
- Focus Congo
- Dhadjowa Foundation
- Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund (National)
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There are no universities left in Gaza.
Alicia Zhao & Samantha Haran take us through the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza, a soundscape of the Student Intifada. Field recordings from across so-called australia and a foundational teach in by Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti educator and poet Lizzie Jarrett.
Even in lulls and in the quiet, you can hear it. You can hear the possibility of another world brewing.
In the spirit of collective action there were many people that made this piece possible. This piece was produced by Samantha Haran & Alicia Zhao; Scripting, USYD & UNSW recordings by Samantha Haran; Soundscapes by Alicia Zhao & Mateo Baskaran; Teach in by Lizzie Jarrett, co-organised and recording assisted by Rand Khatib; UQ recordings by Anna Carlson; Creative direction and final mixing and sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin
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Full house on Race Matters today as we welcome the amazing crew from Jam for Justice - a community fundraiser happening on June 22 raising funds for PARA (Palestine Australia Relief and Action) to support Gazans on the ground, and Palestinians seeking asylum in australia. Hear from artists and organisers Wytchings (Jenny), Zeadala (Zainab), Tru (Sara), Emad (Jafar) and Wasiela (an.other collective) about this upcoming event and collective resistance and care in this moment.
Other ways to show your support
DEiFY - action toolkit - comprehensive, updated actions
Gaza Mutual Aid Fund (instagram)
Operation Olive Branch
Palestine Action Group
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Censorship in the arts has been rampant across our galleries, theaters, airwaves and screens. As the genocide devastates across Palestine in its seventh month, we witness sites of art-making cower away from speaking out and silencing artists who do. In this tumultuous and heartbreaking climate - how do we understand the role of the artist? Hear from artists Lux Æterna, Alissar Chidiac and Nicole Barakat unpacking this, creating an intergenerational chat on the need for artists to be vigilant witnesses and creative resistors.
They’re part of an exhibition at The Cross Art Projects, Potts Point Forms of Censorship - gathering artists across forms and identity to query the culture of self-censorship on now, and has been extended until until June 15th 2024.
Other works referenced
- This bridge called my back - Writings by radical women of colour
- Mondoweiss - From the River to the Sea, history, meaing and power
- artists for Palestine 2023 - instagram campaign calling galleries into account, publishing responses (or lack of) from artistic boards
This episode was hosted by Shareeka Helaluddin, and was edited by Mateo Baskaran.
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Content note: this episode contains mention of family violence, incarceration, houselessness, and visceral descriptions of some memories. It's not described in detail but please go gently if these will affect you.
Samantha Haran and Bipasha Roy chat to Gomeroi writer, curator and scholar Dr Amy Thunig. A rich chat on memoir as a politcal act amid erasure, dismantling white supremacy in academia, finding wisdom by attuning to ancestral practices.
Catch Amy at the Sydney Writers Festival from May 20 spanning their curatorial and literary output across a few events, for more details head to the Sydney Writers Festival website.
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A spirit of protest and deep sensitivity echoes in this episode with two staunch First Nations activists and artists Jazz Money & Thea Anamara Perkins. Honored to have FBi broadcaster, writer and curator Levent Can Kaya take over Race Matters with an incisive and luminous chat. Hear Lev, Thea and Jazz on personal archives and joyous collective imagination as antidotes to colonial violence; and the politics of art-making as institutions try to stifle our resistance.
Image: from Atherreyurre, by Thea Anamara Perkins
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Alicia Zhao and Joannie Lee are joined by artist, Dharma practitioner and co-founder of the Inner Fields collective - Elaine Su-Hui. Together they share a reflective chat on their relationships with Buddhism, what it is to come to a politicised reclamation of spirituality, decolonise Western appropriations of faith, and turn towards a practice that doesn't bypass injustice - but faces it with courage and loving action.
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This week the Race Matters team settle in to have a deep chat about love. What is the role of love when we are witnessing the horrors, violence and apathy of the genocide of Palestinian people and the rise of facism? Join Alicia Zhao, Toobs Anwar and Samantha Haran unpack the politics of love and what it means to practice radical and political love in our everyday life.
Featuring excerpts from Saul Williams & James Baldwin.
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how can we gather in non-hierarchical ways, form solidarities, resist shallow representation and form cultures of genuine reciprocity?
Upending the colonial building of artshouse during Dalit History Month, ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala (‘from the depths of one’s being’) brings together local and international artists to examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality through contemporary expression. Envisioned by Dalit curator-artist Vishal Kumaraswamy morphing conventional expectations through an anti-caste politics of curation. Hear Vishal in dialogue with artists Elyas Alavi & Jagath Dheerasekara making these ideas come to life.
This episode was produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, and came together through the dedicated collaborative efforts of Vishal Kumaraswamy, Louana Sainsbury, Varsha Ramesh & Nithya Nagarajan.
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MIGRANT SEX WORKER OF COLOUR DIARIES: WE SPEAK CLEARLY
〰️ this episode is in loving memory of dear friend and colleague, Venus 〰️
A special episode this week as we delve into the second offering of our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries produced by Jasmine Raat-Ki-Raani. An intimate, extended dialogue with Natasha tracing her life from Brazil to so-called a̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶. Hear stories of navigating the workforce as an immigrant, joining the s^x industry and learning the value of labour, refusal, connection and perseverance.
Listen back to the first episode of the series to learn more, and consider making a solidarity donation via BSB: 013040 & Account: 464120537
Series concept, produced and edited - Jasmine Raat Ki Raani | Series artwork - Katy Cao | Final mixing & sound design - Shareeka Helaluddin
This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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A stunning and expansive world conjured by Aaqila aka halalbutch
Aaqila is a writer, artist, DJ and community organiser based on Whadjuk land and sometimes Gadigal land. Their habitude operates towards providing tools for collective liberation beyond the tools of the institution; which manifests in different ways from the dinner table to the gallery. Their threads of research are drawn from Malay-Anglo subjectivities and move slowly through contemporary and ancestral understandings of gender, collective healing and embodied ritual. They have written for numerous publications across so-called Australia including Disclaimer Journal, un Magazine, Granville Centre Art Gallery, sweet pea and several more. They recently participated in the Muslim Poetry Project with Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the Asia Pacific Exchange Program with Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Grey Projects in Singapore. They also perform and DJ semi-regularly under varying pseudonyms.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Leon Bridges - Brown Skin Girl
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK I WORK IT (Morning Mix)
SOPHIE - Pretending
Ariel Zetina - Have You Ever (feat Cae Monãe)
Ch4ins4w - Future Borg
Chris Cobilis - This Is You
Chris Cobilis - Opening Sequence
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK II WORK IT (Afternoon Mix)
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK III WORK IT (Evening Mix)
Fauxe - Go Figure
Erozia - Sentimental Flex
Aaqila - Mirage
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer [intermission on a finished vinyl record]
Pupa - Waveless
Aaqila - God is in my mouth
Uncle Woozee - Accidental Theremin
Aaqila - Each member of my family is cackling
Uncle Woozee - Black Ring Transmission
Aaqila - Same name
Rita Revell - X-12
Aaqila - Time will bring us back
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
theme sound design - wytchings
series artwork - tyberius larking
design & art direction - tim worton
series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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"Space is scared. We often think that space is related to the physical and the tangible but also the metaphysical. To hold space for someone is a great gift. In today's world, we all have these pockets of existence, but we rarely and genuinely hold space for others that is more than just superficial. To hold space for another is to exist with them at that moment - to share breath and existence. If we want to build the bridges between ignorance and discrimination, we must share breath. australian Indigenous culture is defined by how we are connected. Even before we are born, we have already been given a song- a story. We were born with a place in this world and, with that, a legacy. Through this legacy, we as a people know that we are a part of this land and everything and everyone inhabiting it. We were born to hold space and share breath."
With roots in the Larrakia Nation of Garamilla (Darwin) and Erubam Le peoples of Meriam Mir. A trailblazing filmmaker, broadcaster and community-builder.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Bangarra Theatr Co - Fire from Ŋathu - ONES COUNTRY - the spine of our stories
Patrick Jonsson - Painting Clouds (Scrapper OST)
࿐ ࿔
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+ design & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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an audio vignette exploring the past and future of pasifika music and what it means to make forward-thinking music as a pasifika artist. narrated by conversations with experimental producer ripley kavara (lakatoi, kandere) and aus hip-hop pioneer hau lātūkefu (koolism)
@lonelyspeck / Sione Teumohenga is a Tongan-Australian artist, producer and musician based on Kaurna land, best known for producing experimental pop music as Lonelyspeck. Drawing from diverse sounds and styles, their work emphasises the physicality of sound to explore relationships with space, perception, origins, the body and the natural world.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Amis - Chant D'Hommage Aux Ancêtres
Women water drumming, Banks Islands, Vanuatu
Nga Tae - Kohatu
Herbs - French Letter
Koolism - Run the Place Hot
Koolism - The Grand Opening
hasji, Brandn Shiraz - hasji meets shiraz uptown
Church - Orange
i.amsolo - SOMEONE ELSE
Vayne - My Best Yet
Lakatoi - Ghost Shell
Ché-Fu - Waka
Fanau Spa - Catfish
katai - vulnerable, do you love me
Hidden Boss - On A Highway
Sollyy, Zion Garcia - Apply the Pressure
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
theme sound design - wytchings
series artwork - tyberius larking
design & art direction - tim worton
series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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"An experimental and (non)fictional invitation to see myths and mythmaking as a form of queer storytelling.
Home dwells in the languages we keep."
Darren Lesaguis is of Bisaya and Tagalog descent, a former co-host of Race Matters, and community radio worker.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Kitchie Nadal - ‘Huwag na Huwag Mong Sasabihin’
Kulintang Ensemble - Kulintang Mamayog Akun Background Free Download No Copyright
Field recordings from freesound[dot]com
𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫
+ “Ambot sa Essay Kwoah: From Swardspeak to Hiligaynon, What Queering Language and Forms Means to Me” by Austere Rex Gamao | 1 September 2023 (cordite.org.au/essays/ambot-sa-essay-kwoah/)
+ Queer Mythology in the Philippines (makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2018…e-philippines)
+ Sidapa and Bulan’s otherwise popular relationship and how there is little to no record found on the correlation of the two deities
(medium.com/@kolowrites/sidapa-…und-on-325fc2f42b80)
+ Uncovering the Bulan Sidapa love story deception (aswangproject.com/uncovering-the-b…#google_vignette)
+ Madjaas (youtube.com/watch?v=y4ZcRA98bx4)
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+ design & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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"A journey through time, and gender- exploring Dalit womanhood and Dravidian masculinity through an anti-caste and trans lens. Bounded and centred by an all-Dalit & Tamil Greek chorus consisting of photographer Jaisingh Nageshwaran, scholar Dr. Roja Singh, community oragniser Grace Banu and wise young woman Ritu Elizabeth Samuel, soundtracked by rapper nasbandi - and me."
R.Talitha Samuel is a cultural producer based in New Delhi. Featuring only guest experts from caste-oppressed communities, Clear Blue Skies S1: Experiencing Ambedkar (2021-23) was a radical political theory podcast that Samuel hosted & edited. It built on the final year seminar Samuel developed & led, which was the first university-level course on anti-caste thought across Turtle Island. Currently, the larger project of Clear Bue Skies Productions is expanding into mixed media collaging, experimental research-based narrative soundscapes & sonic ethnography.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Nasbandi - पढ़ाई (put that ₹₹₹ on me)
Nasbandi - pretty like secrets
Anuraja Kamaraj - Blood Bath (Asuran OST)
VZN, Vinci & Caeserboii feat. Lemonstand Boys - RAKSHEESH
Rock D - Ravan Ravan Hoon Main
𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫
+ Here's a reading list generously compiled by R. Talitha Samuel, with a heap of resources that informed this piece and a primer on caste, queer and trans history and legacies in this context docs.google.com/document/d/1zQ0ff…/edit?usp=sharing
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+ design & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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"How do you find your place in a world that was never built to accommodate you? An intimate memoir, unravelling the shifts in a body and the world around them in a world before and during the global pandemic."
Tori Hobbs is a disabled healthcare worker, writer and co-founder of Disability Justice Network. a grassroots organisation run for and by multiply marginalised disabled people in so called australia. Alongside their daily work as a nurse they have been a tireless advocate for disability justice in this colony guided by a framework on relentless love and defiance.
𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: A strong content note that Tori’s piece has some really heavy themes, so if now doesn’t feel like the right time feel free to tune out and revisit it another time
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Lumidee - Never Leave You (J. Reid edit)
Fall Out Boy - G.I.N.A.S.F.S
Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset, Pt.2
Weyes Blood - It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫
If you have the means, consider donating to the Disability Justice Network mutual aid fund (www.gofundme.com/f/disability-jus…-mutual-aid-fund)
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+mdesign & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
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"What is it that you call home? For a queer Palestinian in diaspora the answer can be complicated. From Beiti to Beitak, Chicago to Naarm, I try to find out. Featuring interviews with Nourah of Salon Kawakib and Mirna of Aywa Syndicate."
Kal Jazeera is a queer Palestinian creative currently based in naarm by way of potawatomi land Chicago. They orbit many fields across performance but the heart of their work is grounded in community. Their sense of joy, depth and love was distilled in all our conversation and something you will feel throughout their work.
𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: Kal started working on this piece in June before the siege and continued genocide happening in Gaza. They shared some words about this ahead of the piece and hope Palestinians in the diaspora find a sense of solace and connection in the work. From the river to the sea 🇵🇸
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Jumbel - Blue Dot Sessions license free music
Magic - Amira Jazeera
Fi Kul Balad - Clarissa Bitar
El Es - DJ Plead
Mercy - DJ Plead
𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
+ Australian Palestine Advocacy Network actions and events apan.org.au/events/
+ A Liberatory Demand from Queers in Palestine (tinyurl.com/4au97pu4)
+ Queer Palestinian Liberation from Queer reflections (tinyurl.com/ytry497z)
+ www.thenation.com/article/world/ga…ueering-the-map/
+ Pinkwashing Exposed (free documentary on kanopy)
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𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+mdesign & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
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Broadcasting from the 24/7 sit-in at the PM's office, we hear from two core organisers from Families for Palestine - Sarah Shaweesh and Zuzia. We chatted about the collective power of staking a picket and how communal acts of care are an expression of resistance.
Please support the work of Families for Palestine, sign up for a sit in shift by sending them a message, or learn about other ways you can support their effrots and call for a permanent and unconditional ceasefire.
This episode was produced by Alicia Zhao, with final audio editing and co-hosting by Shareeka Helaluddin
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A sprawling, expansive chat with two artists who embody a DIY ethos interconnected with spirituality and poetry.
Two chats with musician, sculptor Lonnie Holley and poet Moor Mother (Camae Awaye) chatting through their practices, converging across their innovative use of materials, unique ways of collaborating and principled resistance. A conversation to sink deep into, with both Lonnie and Camae reminding us that beauty is in our toolkit for the revolution.
You can catch them both live, alongside free jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements, at the Opera House on February 26, more details here.
This episode was co-hosted and co-produced by Alicia Zhao & Shareeka Helaluddin
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Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer.
"We are watching genocide, a lot of us come from lines of attempted genocide. we can't 'self care' our way out of that but what we can do is hold each other ... we don't have a choice"
our final episode for the year is helmed with Samantha Haran in conversation with Quandamooka and Wiradjuri woman, and First Nations Healing Practitioner LJ Phoenix Singh. LJ works from an anti-oppressive, abolitionist and decolonial perspective. Together they reflect on the ongoing fight for liberation in Palestine tying together collective liberation into a self care that is based in solidarity and ancestral healing.
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Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer.
Hear Toobs and community herbalist Salma Yassien speaking through community practices of collective care, herbalism and spirituality that proved vital in the wake of hyper-policing and medical racism in and outside the global pandemic. A sprawling chat grounded in spirit, hope and the wisdom of daily, ancestral remedies.
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Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer.
Hear Tanya Shukla in conversation with narrative therapist Sekneh-Hammoud Beckett. In an intimate and reciprical dialogue they explore the intersectional race politics in our deepest desires and connections; unravelling into a vulnerable offering of how we can move through and transform sites of trauma into practices of love and resistance.
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We are honored to offer this bonus episode with gratitude and soldiarity with The Red Rattler Theatre, Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) & Blak Caucus. This is as much a talk as it is a compelling call to action, listen to their words.
"Palestinian activists and the Blak Caucus invite you to this plenary on unceded Gadigal land.
Our siblings in Palestine face a genocide, their existence at risk of total wipeout. On this colony, another Black death in custody rips through First Nations communities in the wake of a failed referendum that revealed rather then unite.
Anti-colonial resistance is more important than ever, and these solidarities between communities are crucial to pave the way forward. We invite all Blackfullas, Palestinians, Indigenous peoples across the globe. We invite trusted allies and those keen to attend with an open mind and without racism in their hearts.
Always was, always will be. From the river to the sea."
Hear from Lizzie Jarrett, Rand Khatib, Meriki Onus, Ethan Lyons, Lana Tatour, Randa Abdel Fattah, Amal Naser - recorded live on 26th October 2023 on the unceded and sacred Wangal Clan Lands of Gadigal Country
Gadigal to Gaza: Resistance Until Liberation' was one of the Red Rattler Theatres 'Rat Talks' part of the Red Rattlers Arts Program 'Future Communities' Created by Kween G and Dr Vivienne Linsley.
Producer of Future Communities: Dr Vivienne Linsley
Program manager: Kween G
The night was filmed and audio recorded by Studio Sensorium
Gadigal to Gaza was Co hosted by the Autonomous Collective Against Racism & The Blak Caucus
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Xuan and Marina from Amplify Bookstore are back for another episode of anti racist book club! Hear their recommendations of Palestinian authors across all genres of books. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but we hope it offers a starting point for engaging with Palestinian literature in the spirit of solidarity, empathy and dissent.
Hear them chat through A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum, Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Power Born of Dreams by Mohammad Saba'aneh; and Songs for the Dead and the Living is a recent release Sara M Saleh
These titles are available through Amplify Bookstore but might be sold out. Continue to support your local bookstores and libraries <3
Continue to look towards Palestinian groups on the ground including APAN, Palestine Action Group and a Palestine Action toolkit put forward by DEiFY collating information and actions across the continent.
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Alicia Zhao and Toobs Anwar chat to poet and Fulbright scholar Stephanie Niu, about her expansive research on Christmas Island with the local community, weaving together poetry, stories and community mapping and archiving.
Plus, Stephanie shares a reading of her poem "Vision for America"
Find out more about Stephanie’s work here. Her forthcoming collection "Survived By" will be available for preorder with Host Publications starting in January
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Where would Race Matters be without Tanya Ali? Honestly, we probably wouldn't exist.
As well as being one of the founding co-hosts of the show, Tanya was a luminous compass for the show’s vision and growth in her time as executive producer and continues to nurture what we do. Somewhere in the haze of post-lockdown she graciously stepped out of her volunteer role as Executive Producer and never got a final show. SO this morning we are going to honor her her years of work and the real labour it took to uphold it, and are excited to have her as our special guest.
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We take some reprieve amid the heaviness of the world to bring you some of the new(ish) voices of Race Matters. Over the last six months, every week, our new volunteers have been coming together to help bring Race Matters to life. Today we hear from Tim Worton, Alicia Zhao, Toobs Anwar with Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin talking about what brought them here, consciousness-raising texts (spoiler: Chicken Run is about workers rights), and their everyday acts of resistance. Lots of love to Aish Naidu, Jess Mulet and Samantha Haran who couldn't make it! Catch their work soon <3
Tracklist (listen to the full broadcast with tracks here)
CHITRA - Go Easy
PRIYA RAGU - Kamali
JESSICA LOLLATO - Don't You Come Around
ALTHEA AND DONNA - Uptown Top Ranking
FIGS! BITCH Mohhamad EL Kurd & Clarissa Bitar
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Meet some of our newest co-hosts and producers Samantha Haran and Alicia Zhao. They’ve been working together on this new series to reimagine and explore the possibilities of what ‘education’ can be and alternative ways in which we learn, gesturing towards modes that are transformative and healing.
They begin by looking critically at the ways in which current models of education are failing people and enacting violence; hearing from some listener voice messages that were both vulnerable and concerning. They come to this as learners as well as producers to this series, weaving critical conversation and care.
Artwork by Alicia Zhao. This piece was produced by Alicia & Sam.
Content Note: The second voicenote contain instances of distressing content - with mention of suicide, miscarriage PTSD and racial harrassment. We flag this in more detail in the episode. We ask that you go gently when listening in or choose to opt out, and have left support resources in our show notes.
If you have anything you want to share in regard to this please get in touch at racematters@fbiraido.com
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We are very excited and honored to bring forward the first episode of Migrant S3x Workers of Colour, a series of intimate dialogues produced by Jasmine Raat Ki Raani
"The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this audio series are by migrant sex workers of color who speak for themselves and not for the entire community. We do not take responsibility for how the audience perceives us or our stories because we are not here to please. We are a work in progress and our thoughts, views and opinions are subject to change. We do not intend to hurt anyone’s feelings, your feelings are your responsibility.
In India the s3x workers I met taught me that 'the first step towards revolution is the revolution of self-worth. That we can’t fight the world if we haven’t fought with ourselves. The only thing that matters to us is how we see ourselves.'
No longer are we going to wait for someone to pass us the mic. No longer are we waiting for someone to save us. No longer will we let anyone decide how our words should sound. We speak clearly. We affirm we are here to take space. We urge everyone from in and out the industry to listen to listen"
Series concept, produced and edited - JasmineRaat Ki Raani
Episode dialogues with - Alana, Rosa, Milan
Series artwork - Katy Cao
Final mixing & sound design - Shareeka Helaluddin
If you have the means, consider donating to their mutual aid (more details about this at the end of the episode). BSB: 013040 & Account: 464120537
This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
Additional sounds
Frank and Poet - Reflections
Plum Blossum - Kokura Station
Kelela - Contact
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On today’s show we seek to continue to uplift the ongoing resistance and interconnectedness of displaced peoples on these lands, in Palestine and occupied territories. Tracing settler colonial roots in so-called Australia, this moment a day after the referendum and links to Palestine.
Content note: some of this episode contains mention of graphic acts of genocide, dispossession and state-sanctioned violence.
Hear from Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist and co-organiser with ICRR Amy McQuire and Palestinian organiser Amal - they’ll speak from their unique perspectives on what solidarity with Palestine looks like and contextualising it this week during the referendum and the siege happening in Palestine. We will also hear from Ramia Sultan, Palestinian organiser with APAN sharing what’s happening on the ground in Gaza. Plus, a reading from the Sunday Paper Our Shared Resistance by Amy McQuire read by Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker.
With gratitude to a chorus of people who instilled us with their trust and energy to make this episode happen: Amy McQuire, Institute of Collabroative Race Research, Ramia Sultan, Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, Mell Chun, Matt Chun, The Sunday Paper, Amal, Samantha Haran, Alicia Zhao, Toobs Anwar, Shareeka Helaluddin
Image credit: @tarabeat.camille
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As the noise continues and racist rhetoric unfolds across the continent, Race Matters will be deferring our platform entirely to First Nations activist and community groups to amplify nuances beyond the yes/no rhetoric of The Voice and to centre complex and healing dialogues.
This week, we hear from Kieran and Dan from Black People's Union: a revolutionary organisation that aims to empower Indigenous people in Australia through the pursuit of full self-determination and sovereignty. They chatted through the BPU's objection to the voice and its links to an illegal, racist constitution; the problem with leftists and white progressives, plus tangible ways forward to sovereignty.
Learn more about BPU, and if you're in Naarm, catch their live event and fundraiser, Sovereignty in the Time of the Voicewith Shiralee Hood, Lidia Thorpe, Dr Chelsea Watego alongside Kieran; happening on September 28th - details here.
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Tahlia Palmer's work grapples with tensions of the weight of colonial trauma and finding comfort in recovering ancestral practices. She's an artist of Murri and European lineage, working in a variety of mediums to explore history, identity and perception. Her art practice works on confronting the conditions that create and perpetuate inter-generational trauma, as well as finding pathways for healing. She chatted with Race Matters and unpacked her creative process and what it is to turn political intentions into poetic musical expression.
You can catch Tahlia performing as amby downs as part of the Volumes festival happening at Art Gallery of NSW on September 27th from 7pm. Entry is free, more details here.
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BEYOND THE BARS X RACE MATTERS SOLIDARITY SYNDICATE
From Gadigal to ... those on the inside, with love.
This week we dedicate our airwaves to the trailblazing, radical output of Beyond the Bars Prison Radio, on 3CR Radio. An honor to be joined by Shiralee Hood - she's a Noongar, Kurnai, Gunditjmara comedian, broadcaster and educator. She uses her work in prison radio as an extension of her deep rooted practice of storytelling and healing, nurturing relationships with those who are incarcerated.
We’re also going to hear excerpts from those on the inside: incarcerated first peoples who have made radio with Beyond the Bars sharing their stories, their poems, their music. We’re honored to hear them here on Race Matters and urge you to listen to the full broadcasts that we’ll link in our show notes.
Excerpts in order:
Dwayne - Only Loves Remains (poem)
Amanda - Ashley's Poem
Amanda, Chantelle, Alishia - Language
Wayne, Cody - Learning Language
Cane - Jail Doesn't Help (rap)
Troy - Back into Culture
the women at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre - Ngarra Burra Ferra
Gre - Look out for each other
Daisy - Story in a painting
LISTEN TO & SUPPORT BEYOND THE BARS EVERY JULY DURING NAIDOC WEEK. The Broadcast is also archived online, and highlights on a CD available.
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RED RATTLER X RACE MATTERS PRESENTS: EMBERS
Listen back to a tender and generative conversation held at our live community gathering at the Red Rattler, Embers. Following a screening of Lizzie's Borden's cult-classic Born In Flames, we were joined by community builders and artists Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury, Kween G, prince and facilitated in conversation for one last time by Darren Lesaguis.
Hear them deconstruct and reconstruct the 1983 film, talk through every day acts of resistance, anti-capitalist solidarity, ways of finding joy, disruption and silence amid all the noise. This event was Darren Lesaguis' final show as co-host of Race Matters, hear at the end how we honor the five years of his inimitable, joyous, caring tenure on the show and the gifts he has offered this next chaper of Race Matters.
Thanks to Lizzie Borden herself and cinenova in london for making this screening possible, Kween and Viv and the rRed Rattler for inviting us, Tanya Ali for the music, the Race Matters volunteers: Samantha, Tim, Aish, Jessica, Toobs, Alicia Zhao for the incredible artwork for the event, Justin for photography, Lachlan on sound and lighting, Ross for filming, Judy from Love & Peace Catering, Sammy, Professor and Ya for setting up the space, Shareeka Helaluddin for co-producing the event.
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What are our responsibilities when it comes to sharing stories of vulnerable communities, and those that have been displaced? What are ways that we can understand one story as ways to disrupt, to uncover the truth of so many more that go unnoticed, untold?
Our show today traces the flows of displacement of a Tamil family that was thrust into the national political spotlight as they experienced the harsh violence of our asylum seeking system: Nades, Priya and their daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa, the Nadesigalum family. We hear from co-producers and creatives, Jay Ooi & Thinesh Thillainadarajah from You Have Been Told a Lie. Together, we explored what it is to build relationships across language, culture and geographies to unveil truths And, what we can learn from the generosity of one family’s story to unravel the systems of immigration and how we are all implicated in processes of displacement.
Plus, we hear an excerpt from the first episode of the series. To learn more and listen to the six-part series, visit You Have Been Told A Lie. We thank the Nadesigalum for allowing us to share their story, to shed light on this critical issue.
This episode was produced by Samantha haran and Shareeka Helaluddin, and hosted by Shareeka Helaluddin. With gratitude to Jay and Thinesh for letting us air an excerpt from their
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The tech we use impacts our lives. They aren’t neutral objects but can have particular worldviews baked-in to the very operation of them. It can be overwhelming to begin to challenge those cultural biases when a lot of mainstream conversation on technology is wrapped up in speculation and paranoia. How do we make sense of all this? On today’s show we begin to decode some of this with guest producer Dr Sarita Herse in conversation with feminist technoscience Dr Thao Phan. Together they chat through race, AI and algorithms helping us see through the veil of opaque and insidious tech; and ways to co-opt these forms to find meaningful resistance.
* posting more details soon* To learn more about the “Study In” that Thao mentioned at the end of their conversation, follow us on socials or listen back to our podcast where we will leave all the details when EOIs open, or stay tuned on the Art+Australia website.
Learn more about Dr Thao Phan’s work
- 5 Questions on Liminal
- Listening to Misrecognition - her amazing performance lecture on machine listening and racialised English
- Read some of her academic work here
This piece was produced by Sarita Herse, and was co-hosted by Sarita Herse & Shareeka Helaluddin.
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On Race Matters we head to Damascus, Syria as we are joined by researcher and creative Mia Shouha, co-founder and director of Souq. In an intimate chat, she shares how artists create in a complex, post-war context and craft through autonomy and imperialism resistance to find magic and connection. Alongside her collaborator Romy Cole-Groth they’ve begun working on a project that elevates the value and dignity of Syrian craft, collecting beauty in a time of crisis.
To learn more about Souq and how you can support the launch of their first collection Yasmin, head to their socials @souqq__
This piece was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Image courtesy of Souq.
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Content note: this talk will mention Black deaths in custody, policy brutality, grief and mention of torture. These are told from the lived experience of our guest and how this shapes their response to the conversation. In some instances this is described in detail to shed truth, so we ask that you go gently and decide when the time is right for you to listen in.
On today’s show we’re asking: What if our institutions were life-affirming, instead of death-making? This is the question at the heart of abolition, a political tradition that demands the end of prisons, as well as the end of the kind of world that could ever even have something as violent as a prison. Our guest for this week is Latoya Aroha Rule - activist and writer working to ban the use of spithoods in this country who's work explores all this and more. Their journey towards this has been deeply rooted in grief and love as well as the power of creative protests.
This piece was produced by Sam Haran and hosted by Shareeka Helaluddin. Featuring music by Mo'Ju - Bran Nue Wurld.
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RADIO SKID ROW X RACE MATTERS SOLIDARITY SYNDICATE
This week we dedicate our airwaves to the trailblazing, radical output of Radio Skid Row 88.9FM. An honor to be joined by Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury - she’s host of Skid Row’s Blak Friday / Koori Connection, and comes from a lineage of radio makers and storytellers at Skid Row and beyond. She’ll be joining us to talk through the power of community radio and how we can continue to support the work that they do. Plus, some tracks curated by Aaliyah!
SUPPORT RADIO SKID'S ROW 40TH BIRTHDAY
If you have the means, donate here and continue to signal boost the campaign via social media so they can expand their reach beyond the inner west into digital radio!
Music: Awa Mbaye - Black Girl Magic
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Our friends Marina & Xuan at Amplify Bookstore are back for another anti-racist Book Club takeover!
The episode spans works around invisible labour and recovering knowledge systems. In the first half we hear them delve deep into a contemporary fiction by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Mystery meets sharp social commentary with Now You See Us shedding light on the lives of 3 domestic workers in Singapore. The plot thickens as one of their friends gets accused of murder and the rest of them try to figure out if she really did it or not.
We then hear Xuan and Marina in conversation with Adnyamathanha regenerative farmer, cultural educator and author Damien Coulthard. Hear him chat through what it is to decolonise through food, and the ways in which he cultivates relationships and practices that are preserving knowledge systems and natural resources.
To find out more about the book and Damien’s work at Warndu, you can catch him in conversation at the Sydney Writers Festival on May 27 as part of two events. “Future Food’ and “The Dinner that Changed My Life’ MORE DETAILS HERE.
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Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller from NSW’s North West freshwater plains. Her work has long been dedicated to breathing life into objects and story of the past through song, language revival and she continues to be heavily involved in the teaching and sharing of culture in both her Sydney and Yuwaalaraay communities. Her work spans music, composing, music direction and her debut novel titled Song of the Crocodile was winner of the 2017 Black&Write! Fellowship. She joined us to chat through the expansiveness of her practice and what it is to form connections that collapse the boundaries of colonial time through song, memory and listenting.
Nardi Simpson will appear at two events at the Sydney Writers Festival including Storytelling Gala: Letters to the Future on May 25 and Women of Another Australia on May 26. More details here.
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Everyday is a good day to support and buy from Black artists.
Formerly known as Black Bandcamp - Black Artist Database has a simple premise: to get more Black people paid for their music. It’s a crowdfunded resource of artists, aimed at bringing cultural and material support to the Black community. Alongside artists and DJs; they throw events, skills-building workshops and now have a podcast. It's also a project that seeks to call out the effects of white supremacy on creative access and daily lives; whilst providing an antidote rooted in the vulnerability and expressions of black creativity.
Hear from Tanya Akinola aka T-N. She's a naarm-based DJ, writer and label manager who has been working alongside B.A.D. She joined us to chat through how she got involved with B.A.D, creating your own systems of creativity, and what it is to act in meaningful solidarity with Black artists.
This week's show featured tracks by Black and First Nations artists selected by Tanya Akinola including Tygapaw, Dameeela, KMRU, plus unreleased tracks by Claddy World and Niks. To hear the full broadcast head to fbiradio.com/racematters
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What is the balance of curation and community-consultation especially when cultural identities are so fraught and disparate? How can a community-rooted event still serve as an invitation for learning and connection across differences?
These are some of the themes that we explore with our guest this week, Hajer Al-Awsi. Alongside her new role festival director of the inaugural SWANA Film Festival, writer, arts worker and founder of Iraqi Diaspora Creatives Network. She joined Race Matters to chat through the new festival and thoughts behind the curation, as well as delving into the joys and challenges of presenting art of a complex and rich region.
Catch SWANA Film Fest from April 28- 30, showcasing over 20 films spanning across Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Armenia, and Syria!
SWANA Film Festival is a project of Arts and Cultural Exchange Parramatta and is supported by Screen NSW, City of Parramatta and Arab Theatre Studio.
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On today’s show we’re exploring what it is to continue to tell stories across evolving digital landscapes and the need to teach younger generations to care for, learn and grow alongside Country. That’s done in creative ways with the multimedia, First Nations theatre production Saltbush. It’s a production that follows two friends, discovering and growing an understanding of the land; and how that challenges and provokes their personal journeys - doing this by using painting, dance, sensory cameras and interactive storytelling story-telling.
Guest host for Race Matters Maleeka Gazula chatted to one of the show’s performers, Luke Currie-Richardson about all of this, as well as what it's been like to be an interdisciplinary storyteller in a show that’s been on stage for over a decade.
Saltbush is on now until April 17 at the Sydney Opera House - get your tickets here.
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Race Matters were joined by Catherine Madviza, project lead of Codebreakers - an innovative output working alongside young people in Western Sydney to critically engage with social media, carving space to explore their identities, and advocate for social change in creative ways. Alongside its social platforms, Codebreakers in unique in that it has multiple ways of engaging with community and bridging that often-abstract bridge between community and policy-makers. Hear from Catherine on how they create an adaptive online space, and bring value to the creative ouput of young people alongside the challenges they face in making this possible. Plus, tracks selected by the codebreakers crew with some of their favourite Western Sydney artists.
Submit to their online gallery and be paid for your work! Learn more here.
Image: Queen of Hearts by Steph Martei part of Season 2 of the Codebreakers online gallery.
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Content note: This talk describes instances of transphobia and a mention of black deaths in custody. These are told from the lived experience of our panelists and how this shapes their response to the questions as well as their creative practice. Whilst not described in detail, we ask that you go gently and decide when the time is right for you to listen in.
What role does art have in inciting social change? How can alternative ways of making and connecting be an antidote to oppression? Can creative decisions become viable ways to forge solidarities across differences in our communities? How can we understand creativity not just as expression, but as tools of survival and hope?
Recorded live at Darling Square Library, Race Matters was in conversation with artists, activists and community-builders thinking through these questions and beyond. Hosted by Darren Lesaguis, he was joined by artist, rapper and ballroom icon Jamaica Moana, artist and educator Nicole Barakat and some words shared by writer, activist and curator of Queer+Black+Pride Latoya Rule.
Artwork by generously donated by TextaQueen.
Event Credits
- This event was made possibly by the City of Sydney with special thanks to Teik Kim Pok
- Event Producer Volunteer - Tiana Severino-Fidow
- Recorded by - Harvey O'Sullivan
- Photographer - Jenna Parker
- The event was produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, as well as the final episode edit.
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Fjorn Bastos is someone who speaks and moves with intention. As an artist, Fjorn works primarily in sound and a style of narrativised performance under the name Papaphilia. Her 2021 album - ‘Remembrance of Things to Come’ is a pulsing and abstract exploration of time and grief.
As a researcher and community organiser - she’s also long been an outspoken voice for anti-racism, anti-colonial resistance and isn’t one to just speak without action. Her work is committed to interrogating and resisting colonial powers and forging connections and infrastructure to dismantle how those power structures show up in our everyday lives. She’s also a director of creative sector consultancy Future Tense, and the co-producer of +Concepts - a subversive performance lecture series.
She joined Darren Lesaguis to delve into all this, and how all her pursuits interweave into creating the world and communities she wants to be in; and the importance of sound as a form of resistance and healing.
Watch her newly-released video for All Are Syllables of the Great Tongue. And look out for more details of her playing live across MELB and SYD in late April.
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A very special guest host this week, Sezzo: kōtare/kingfisher turned proud Ngāpuhi DJ, writer, curator, and medical student. She stepped on to the mic bringing with her a profound and loving dialogue with her kin Grayson and Hāmiora visiting from Aotearoa for World Pride. Their conversation spanned questions like "what is World Pride on stolen land?" and delved into First Peoples solidarities, the unique challenges and gifts of Takatāpui experiences, decolonial connections and cosmologies and what it is to be visitors on stolen land, and queer Māori futures. So much richness, tears and laughter in this dialogue, we are deeply honored to have been able to share Race Matters with them.
Image: An artwork from Te Timatanga curated by Hāmiora for Auckland Pride.
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What would it mean to consider the radical potential of love, empathy, and pleasure— as an antidote to oppression and disconnection?
Mimi Zhu doesn't want to romanticise love. Their debut title "Be Not Afraid of Love" is devoted to answering this, sharing in a way that is intimate and heart-tugging. Our conversation with them maps the pain and violence that can stop us from knowing how to enact and receive love, intimacy, queer kinship, and how loving action can be a tool for social change.
Mimi references some works of radical Black feminist and First Nations thinkers including bell hooks and Braiding Sweetgrass**by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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What does it mean to engage with the stories of the forcibly displaced? What happens when those people seek support in each other - and what does solidarity with that movement look like for queer people, leading into a time like World Pride?
Shareeka Helaluddin spoke with Renee Dixon, co-founder of the Forcibly Displaced People's Network (FDPN) ahead of their 2023 Queer Displacements Conference. Through Renee's own journey, and the work the FDPN does for LGBTQI+ people who have been forcibly displaced; their conversation spans queery-ing refugee advocacy, unpacking pinkwashing and corporate agendas in PRIDE, story-telling as a tool for social change.
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An emotional one ... Sara's last show. Join us as we revel, celebrate, cry, remember the four formidable and inimitable years that Sara Khan has offered us. It’s hard to say what Race Matters would be without her, and the depths of knowledge, power, care, laughter she has given to this show and FBi radio more broadly. There aren’t enough words to describe how much Sara has changed the landscape of radio and what it is to have content led by and for First Nations and people of colour. Listen in for iconic artists we've loved on the show, delving deep on the history of Race matters, reflections and some surprises! <3
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Content note: this story revolves around racial trauma and has mention of trauma, anti-Asian racism, colourism and references to statistics on suicide and self harm. Whilst not discussed in detail, we ask that you go gently, surround yourself with some comforts, or come back to this at a time that feels okay for you.
What are the impacts of racism when it comes to our minds, bodies and spiritual wellbeing? In today's story, we hear from FBi presenter Maleeka Gazula (Up For It!) as she maps her ongoing journey and reckonings with how the racism and colourism she has long-experienced has had a profound impact on her mental and physical health. Alongside discussing her own increased awareness and resilience; she spoke to music therapist, founder of Shapes and Sounds and Asian-Australian mental health advocate Asami Koike. They bring together how broader systems of injustice play out in interpersonal relationships, trauma and healing - and the ways we can move towards a type of care that recognises the intricacies of being a racialised person, and how we find our own versions of resilience and regulation.
If this conversation brought up some heavy, uncomfortable or distressing topics, some resources can be found below:
- Qlife 1800 184 527
- BeyondBlue 1300 22 4636
- Lifeline 13 11 14
- Safe Haven 02 9113 2981
- Our Directory - Connecting Mob, Māori & BIPOC with mental health and wellbeing support
- Asian Australian Mental Health Directory
- Shakti South Asian Practitioner List
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Too many incredible writers of colour, not enough time to read and do them justice! We are excited to be airing the first episode of BOOK CLUB with our friends at Amplify Bookstore - a site dedicated to Black, First Nations and writers of colour. Hear co-founders Xuan and Marina on how they started Amplify, what makes an Amplify book (it's not just about race and racism!), and the curation they wanted to introduce to us. The books discussed in this episode were~
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution. by R.F. Kuang.
- Australia Day by Stan Grant
- Another Day in the Colony by Dr Chelsea Watego
- All This Come Back Now edited by Mykaela Saunders
- The Upwelling by Lystra Rose
If you’re in Naarm, you can catch Amplify at some pop up location from December 3,10 and 17 at 11 Hope Street, Brunswick from 10-3pm.
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A treat to be in conversation with Kombumerri man, sound artist and performer Rowan Savage aka salllvage; who has long-worked at the intersection of queer club music, performance and connection with Country, helming a truly unique creative output.
Hear him chat on the power and politics of deep listening amid the current exhibition NURA: Deep Listening, currently on Cement Fondu alongside Barkindji artist. We also chat about the textures and techniques that explore Indigenous Futurisms in his album Deep Gecko Energy, and the considerations in bringing this to life at Soft Centre this week
Learn more about NURA: Deep Listening, which is on at Cement Fondu from now until November 26
Experience salllvage live at Soft Centre's Late Night Program (II) alongside Abadir, e3p Anuraag, /amalg on November 26 get tickets here
Image Credit: Kayru Creative. The track heard throughout this episode is salllvage - Autochthonic Sensory Meridian
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A special announcement on today's show ...
Plus, producer Shareeka Helaluddin held a personal conversation with creative S. Shakthtidharan. Shakthi is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry; and a writer, director and composer of original music. His first play, Counting and Cracking, galvanised audiences across the globe, as it traced the story of Sri Lanka’s descent into civil war. This week the debut of his next work the Jungle and the Sea unfolds into another chapter, travelling back in time to follow the story of a family during the war.
Hear him talking through telling difficult stories as an act of healing, how the current crisis in Sri Lanka impacted the production and the power of creating community-based art - that is interested in collaboration, access and transformation.
Music woven throughout the show is ELSZ - Holy Water Meditation with Ganavya
காடும் கடலும் / ගණ වන මුහුද / The Jungle and the Sea is showiong at Belvoir Street Theatre from Nov 12 - Dec 18. Don't miss out! Get your tickets here
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This week, Darren Lesaguis sat down in a deep chat with Andrew Brooks - who's one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate - alongside Astrid Lorange. Together, they make texts, objects, installations, and meals. Their collection of essays, Homework, was published in 2021 by Discipline. Andrew Brooks lectures in Media Cultures at UNSW, is a founding member of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network, and the author of poetry collection Inferno (2021).
Hear them chat about study as a social practice, love as a political and ways that we can find possibility and hope in unexpected places. Listen in if you want to revel in a conversation with a lot of heart, hope and knowledge.
Readings Mentioned:
- On anti-colonial radio from Algeria - Frantz Fanon, This is the Voice of Algeria
- On loving action and love as dis-possession rather than possession -Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant
- On understanding race a shifting construct, not as a fixed marker of identity - Stuart Hall, Race: The Floating Signifier
- On the important history of Black Feminism and the origins of what we now call "identity politics" - 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement
- On study as a social practice - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, All Incomplete (Brooklyn: Minor Compositions, 2021), 26.
Image: Andrew Brooks by Jacquie Manning
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Content note:This episode contains mention of the violence faced at the hands of brutal regimes. We ask that listeners go gently, particularly if this content relates directly to the lived experience of you and your community.
We are honored to be joined Iranian artist Hoda Afshar on the ongoing feminist revolution unfolding in Iran. She brings to light the Kurdish roots of this movement, the neglect of Western media; and untangling the right for autonomy and expression for Muslim women from the trappings of Islamophobic rhetoric.
- Sign the petition by Amnesty International
- Follow Hoda's instagram where she is sharing updates
- @from____iran on instagram is also sharing live updates amid the internet blackout
- Salaam Radio on 3CR recently aired a deeply personal and potent piece tracing Melbourne solidarity protests and emotive reflections on the current moment by media artist and feminist activist, Ramak Bamza
Image: Twofold by Hoda Afshar
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An introspective episode as Darren and Sara reflect on what compels them to make art or find their "why" in creative processes. Darren reflects on seeing Isaac Julien's 1991 cult classic Young Soul Rebels and the profound impact it had at this moment in his life. Sara shares the vulnerable process of being a writer on the acclaimed Netflix series Heartbreak Highand what it is to write Indigeneity on such a mainstream platform.
This episode was hosted by Darren Lesaguis and Sara Khan. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Cover image: a still from Young Soul Rebels dir. Isaac Julien (1991).
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We were privileged to be joined by Gumbainggir historian, educator, activist Dr Gary Foley who for decades has played a central part in some of the most pivotal civil rights movements for First Nations justice. He's been part of community-led services including Redfern’s Aboriginal legal Service, the Aboriginal health service in Melbourne, and National Black Theatre; and continues to be an outspoken advocate for First Nations' justice and self determination.
In 1972 a documentary called NINGLA-ANA: Hungry For Our Land was released - charting the history of these movements. It’s since been restored and re-released, available nationally.
Hear him in conversation speaking to the legacy of Blak radical traditions, the importance of archives to envision socially-just futures, and what the hopes are for having this film being released for new generations to see.
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How do we tell the stories of those who have been diminished or ignored in the writing of history? How do we do justice to the lives they lived, or to the people they were? How does where we come from connect to where we are headed?
These are some of the questions put forward in a new anthology by LIMINAL, an anti-racist literary and art platform based in Naarm. A collection from the longlist of the Liminal and Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize, the book is titled, Against Disappearance. The essays on memory are a powerful collection of First Nations and People of Colour questioning the past and envisioning new futures - free from any shallow or singular story. Hear from editors Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez earlier this week on the importance of bringing together these works, fighting against the forced disappearance of cultures in so-called Australia through subversive and experimental writing and thinking.
Catch them at the book launch on November 1st, details here.
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Darren and Sara reflect on four years of Race Matters: how the show has evolved over the years, shaped their relationship and where the future of Race Matters lies.
We then hear an interview with multidisciplinary artist Riana Head-Toussaint after the debut of her club night Crip Rave Theory. It was an event created in response to inaccessible and exclusionary club spaces, centring and celebrating all bodies that are sidelined in traditional nightlife culture. We’ll learn about how she created a club night drawing on disabled knowledge to create a more intersectionally-accessible rave space, shifting what we think access and inclusion means; and honouring the history of disability justice as being founded by black and brown queer folk.
Our gratitude to Riana for sharing so generously, and for reminding us that accessibility is ongoing, loving and caring work.
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Sara and Darren are back, chatting through a recent film and how it brought up feelings around having your lived experience as a marginalised person "extracted" and coopted from you.
We then hear an interview by Shareeka Helaluddin with artists Victoria Pham and James Nguyen. Ahead of a series of workshops they'll be facilitating at the Sydney Opera House, they chatted about the work they’ve been doing to recover a Vietnamese drum called the Đông Sơn. Hear about how this led to their collaboration exploring ancestral instruments and “breaking the glass cabinet” of museums that take away cultural objects from colonised peoples to enact a deeper and politicised sense of listening.
RE:TUNING is part of this year’s Antidote festival at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 11 September. RE:TUNING will take place as multiple sessions across the full day, from 10:30am – 5pm. Register Here.
During the interview, you hear excerpts from a piece composed by Victoria Pham Nước với đất (Water with earth) 2020, and layers of sound from the Đông Sơn open source library they created.
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Activism: a word thrown around a lot especially in the last few years, but what does it actually mean? Does it still carry the same power as it once did? How do we differentiate from change-makers and clout-chasers? In the final piece of the Beyond Bordersseries Binta Yade speaks to three community facilitators and social organisers across the black diaspora in Naarm and the UK to upend what we assume social change looks like, and the long legacies of organisation and solidarity across the black diaspora sometimes forgotten.
We hear from Foundation For Young Australians community organiser Munira Yusuf-Jate and anti-racist, abolitionist organiser Reem Yahdego on approaching social change through a framework of healing, care and love. We then hear from an educational organiser from the UK and founder of Thinking Black, Hope Oloye on how she approaches transforming education systems from the inside out.
The Beyond Borders artwork is by Gianna Hayes.
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Two conversations exploring the complexities of queerness and masculinity. First, Darren chatted to First Nations playwright Dylan Van Den Berg about his upcoming work at Griffin Theatre, White Fella Yella Tree. We'll hear from Dylan about how this play came to be, what queer blak love on stage looks like, and what we take away from the theatre.
We then hear from Tian and Thy from DEiFY - a platform that centres the experiences of queer, trans, intersex people who also identity as black, First Nations and People of Colour. They’ve just released a zine called Queer Masculinties, exploring the ways that masculinity can be understood outside of a white, hetero and colonial framework.
White Fella Yella Tree is showing at Griffin Theatre from August 19 - September 23, get tickets here! The image is a still from the trailer.
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Self-described as having ‘been in the ABC for a hundred years’, Jason Om has been around the block. A Walkley-winning reporter, author of All Mixed Up and household name for many, Om joined the Race Matters team to chat unearthing vulnerable work about grief, ABC’s apology on racism in the workplace, and the gay community’s ‘dirty little secret’ (hint: racism).
All Mixed Upis available at all good book stores.
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Content note for mention of violence and genocide.
We turn towards Sri Lanka, and the ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis unfolding right now. In a piece produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, she speaks to people on the ground in Sri Lanka and its diaspora to unravel the very complex and oft-unknown histories that led to the critical point, the shadow of colonialism that still impacts, what the diaspora should be mindful of and what a meaningful, people-centred accountable future of Sri Lanka could look like.
You'll hear from journalist and researcher Shiran Illanperuma, Tamil refugee activist Renuga Inpakumar, and Queer Tamil mutual aid organiser and law student Niroshnee Rajan
You'll also hear a poem ready by Tamil artist Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran meditating on grief, displacement of Tamil peoples, data, and surveillance in colonial borders.
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Story-telling and deeply-rooted creativity flows well into today’s episode, with the third instalment of the Beyond Borders series produced by artist Binta Yade. In this episode, Binta explores story-telling through the art practices of film, theatre, photography and dance - both, the long lineages these forms have within black diasporic experiences – whilst continuing to radically evolve, and be a a reclamation and process of self-determination.
You’re going to hear from screen writer and radio producer Huna Amweero, poet and playwright Chino Odimba, photographer Richmond Kobla Dido, dancer and movement director Malik Nashad Sharpe.
This episode was produced and edited by Binta Yade. The series artwork is by Gianna Hayes.
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Palestine has long been described as a ‘litmus test’ where solidarity with Palestine is not just about our individual choices, but also about our collective ability. There’s the reality of a global narrative - that has legitimated oppression for many decades.
This week we were honoured to speak to third-generation Palestinian refugee and organiser Amal Naser, and independent journalist and audio editor for the The Sunday Paper, Mell Chun.
Together they delved into a rich and detailed conversation about what we need to be paying attention to on the ground in Palestine, the power of global boycotts to bring Israel occupation into account, as well as deepening the relationships of interracial solidarity to move towards freedom for all displaced, First Nations communities across the globe.
There are many great resources that introduce the Palestinian Liberation Movement, Decolonize Palestine has some 101 resources as well as the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.
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Content Note: some of these excerpts contain mention of trauma, impacts of racist and colonial violence, and conversations on mental health challenges.
Today on the show we’re tracing the long lines of conversations we’ve had with First Nations guests over the last little while, to amplify the plurality of their stories. You'll hear from a compilation of First Nations voices speaking to their experiences to go beyond any homogeneous and typical storytelling including Tasman Keith, Nayuka Gorrie, Nessa Turnball-Roberts, Dr Sandy O'Sullivan, Jazz Money and our very own Sara Khan. You're hearing from (in order): Episode 79: No Country (with Tasman Keith) Episode 17: Anger is Love (with Nayuka Gorrie) Episode 45: Just Us (with Nessa Turnbull-Roberts) Episode 94: Nothing About Us Without Us (with Jazz Money and May Jeong) Episode 101: Beyond the Binary (with Sandy O'Sullivan)
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied: she’s someone who seemingly needs no introduction. A Sudanese-Australian writer and advocate, chastised by mainstream Australian media for speaking truth to inequity and violent systems of oppression. Whether through literary essays, educational tik toks or live TV, Yassmin is an assured and intelligent voice, analysing society’s systemic challenges, reframing established narratives and making complex ideas accessible to all. Her new collection of essays, Talking About a Revolution is exactly that. Sara Khan spoke to her earlier this week about the power of collective and industrial action, generating hope and imagining radical futures of justice and care.
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Kojey Radical, Blessed and Chanel Loren - they’re all creatives who have established their music careers not only in spite of the racial injustices that proliferate in the industry, but unapologetically find ways to express and redefine their cultural outputs. In the second episode of the Beyond Borders series by Binta Yade, they all shared their experiences to unpack what it is to perceive and create amid the differences between the music industry here and in the UK. We’ll hear them speak about the way that their Blackness has been received, the way its incorporated and maybe the challenges that it poses to the industry - most importantly, how they find a sense of self a creativity beyond shallow definitions posed by the music industry.
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Sim Cheuanghane is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and DJ who recently wrote an anthropology thesis entitled "Food as Practice: Navigations of Chinese Diasporic Identity Through Food Making and Sharing". This work explores the Chinese diaspora and the role of food in the process of re-connecting and re-constructing individual and collective identities and forging solidarity.
Through their work, we learn how food takes on meaning beyond nourishment — to signify movement, pleasure, connection, emotion and even a form of protest for racialised people. Sim’s work is rich with emotion, story and taste- so we are excited to have them them speak to it.
In this interview, Sim mentions a zine on Chinese Protest Recipes, which can be found here.
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Ahead of their performance as part of Sydney's Vivid Festival, we spoke to multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed - she’s one half of doom metal band Divide and Dissolve. The band have long held a politic of destroying and dismantling the colonial state, creating sounds that reverberate with this power and spirit. Sara chatted to Takiaya about all this, the depths of their friendship and love for one another, and how this shaped their sound.
Divide and Dissolve will be performing at Carriageworks for Vivid Sydney on Friday June 3rd 6:30pm. You can get tickets and details here.
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Ate Lovia is a new Filipino-Australian theatre piece written by Jordan Shea presented by Red Line Productions. Set in the 90s, the story follows the resilience of family, and is an incisive examination of our country’s deep-rooted racism, amid a conservative government and its anti-immigrant sentiment. In a piece guest-produced by Eric Jiang, we hear from improviser and playwright Happy Feraren about her work as the translator and community consultant for the play, and how it serves as an act of remembrance to preserve such stories. She also spoke to Eric about her improv practice grounding her in the present and how she has used comedy as a tool for political critique.
Ate Lovia is playing at The Old Fitz until June 4th, you can get more details and tickets here.
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Today on the show we are joined by Genesis and Carielyn, two organisers part of Anakbayan Sydney, a national democratic movement of Filipino youth.You’ll hear them speak to the current political climate and dangers in the Philippines, how it got to this, what they feel the diaspora’s responsibilities are, and the dissonance of talking to parents and elders who have been swayed by propaganda and disinformation. They also spoke about preserving story and memory, and the ways in which a collective and political identity can be shaped and reclaimed. If you are wanting to know more about their work or how you can show solidarity, you can get in contact with them here.
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What is it to talk about race and racism in this country? What is really at stake for racially marginalised people to speak to the truths of injustice? For a lot of People of Colour and First Nations peoples, it can be really hard to reconcile that these are not far-off extreme things occurring in only political debate or right-wing rhetoric. It can be in our closest and intimate relationships, and our work places. So these conversations are charged with emotion and knowing that to speak to injustice can be at the loss of a friendship, a partner, a job, a social structure you once thought was safe and familiar.
This week, we were joined by award-winning journalist, co-founder and co-chair of Media Diversity Australia - Antoinette Lattouf. She has just released a book titled How to Lose Friends and Influence White People. It reads as a sort of guidebook, speaking to race relations in this country and the ways in which doing anti-racist and advocacy work has shifted her relationships and livelihood. Tanya Ali spoke to her ahead of her two appearances at Sydney Writers Festival this week.
This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali, with special guest Antoinette Lattouf. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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We are really excited to be airing the debut of our first ever series, Beyond Borders by Binta Yade. Conceptualised, produced and edited by Binta herself - the series discusses how expressions of blackness materialise in the UK and in Australia, and the ways in which black folk from either place continuously move beyond the limitations set by - and redefine - the mainstream amid the divergent history of the African Diaspora in these places.
In this first episode, we hear Binta chatting to coveted writer Sisonke Msimang alongside accomplished anti-racist facilitator and advocate Maxine Thomas-Asante. Their words go well beyond surface, piercing through to upheaval shallow conversations about race, blackness, conceptions of self and a radical dreaming rooted in deep, critical connection.
You’ll also hear an exclusive interview between Binta and FBi’s own Tariro Mukando sharing an intimate reflection on this piece and how it came together.
The Beyond Borders features the artwork of Gianna Hayes. She shares, “these pieces have been produced by overlaying plant-dyed fabrics. They reflect the merging of terrains, landscapes and waters as a response to the merging of conversations and experiences as black folks navigate various spaces. We carve our own sacred ecosystems that awaken our divinity”
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Darren and Sara are back!
This week we bring you a piece produced by special guest Hannah Lai, exploring the work of two First Nation-led surf collectives that are not only reclaiming but actively shaping reconnection with waterways, and what that means for kinship and a sense of self. Hannah spoke to to Munna Munna man and surf coach Jordie Campbell and organiser of Naru Surf Gathering Amber Mercy. We hear about how they’ve navigated the ocean terrain and the politics around this; and how the work that they do has led to ongoing knowledge-sharing and resilience through surf and community-building.
Special thanks to Hannah Lai for writing and producing this piece.
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Ahead of his show on the 30th of April with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, this week Shareeka chatted to Bornean-Australian author, wood carver, rapper and poet Omar Musa.
Often described as liminal, oscillating between genre, culture and disciplines - Omar's work defies definition. We chat about reaching a point of wanting to create from a place of euphoria and healing, creating your own myths, how wood carving has brought a visceral and tactile connection to his homeland of Borneo, and taking up unapologetic space with art making to challenging norms. Listen back to hear this powerful, tender conversation and to be flawed by Omar's poetic responses. Join Omar Musa & Friends for a night of storytelling, visuals, poetry and political commentary on Saturday 30th April at 9pm. Tickets available here through the ACO website, $35 for under 35s and from $49 for adults. Omar will also be appearing at the Sydney Writers Festival later in the month, with limited tickets available here through the SWF site.
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Lost work, increased racism, inequitable resource, burnout, questionable Diversity & Inclusion strategies, the risk of losing a generation of artists, gestures towards hope.
Today on the show we are talking about the impacts that the ongoing pandemic has had on the lives and wellbeing for First Nations artists and creatives of colour. We all know the arts have been hard hit all round - but what about for marginalised communities that were already experiencing uneven representation and opportunity in creative industries. Diversity Arts are publishing their second Lost Work report detailing all this and more, including whether global anti-racist movements like Black Lives Matter and #stopasianhate have led to meaningful industry shifts. The results are concerning and paints a picture of how oppressive practices continue to impact the lives and wellbeing of our creative communities.
We were joined by two artists who shared their experiences of the last few years: Wakka Wakka Kombumerri dancer Katina Olsen and Shyamla Eswaran, dancer and founder of south asian arts movement Bindi Bosses. We also chatted to Alexia Derbas, researcher and policy manager at Diversity Arts Australia, who helped us make sense of the findings.
If you are an emerging first nations artist or artist of colour and found this piece resonant, we would love to hear from you. Get in touch at racematters [at] fbiradio [dot] com Support Act provides crisis relief to musicians, managers, crew and music workers across all genres who are unable to work due to illness, injury, a mental health issue, including the impact of COVID-19 on live music.
This episode was hosted, produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin, with special guest Alexia Derbas, Katina Olsen and Shyamla Eswaran. Thank you to Sara Khan who helped conduct these interviews.
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This week we bring you something a little different with the help of special guest, artist and creative grief guide Gabriela Georges, founder of The Grief Cocoon.
We chatted to Gabriela about creating brave and creative spaces to process grief, and the many ways as people of colour we mourn within our communities and beyond. We shared our different grief practices, and Gabriela helped us put words to difficult feelings through conversation and poetry.
We hope this brings some comfort and resource to our communities, but also recognise this is a deeply challenging time. We've put together some resources of support, centring the experiences of People of Colour, First Nations and LGBTQIA+ groups. Love and solidarity to everyone grieving today and everyday. Qlife 1800 184 527 // QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships BeyondBlue 1300 22 4636 // 24/7 mental health support via phone. Limited hours webchat available 1pm-12am LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups by Switchboard // A free program for LGBTIQA+ people who have been bereaved through suicide Our Directory // Connecting Mob, Māori & BIPOC with mental health and wellbeing support
This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali and Shareeka Helaluddin, with special guest Gabriela Georges. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Content Note: In this episode you will encounter mention of adverse mental health, depression, suicidality, homophobia and Islamophobia. Whilst not discussed in detail, we acknowledge that these instances could be distressing for audiences, and ask that you take care if you choose to engage. We've put together some resources of support in our notes here.
Mohammad Awad is a Queer, Arab, Muslim artist and mental health worker whose work traverses poetry, playwriting, advocacy and Queer-Muslim centred mental health support. To coincide with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, he joined Darren and Sara for a Queer Muslim Ramadan special to honor the messiness and complexity this time can hold for queer Muslim communities - regardless of your understanding of faith and identity. They chatted about reframing faith and ritual, reclaiming pre-colonial queer ancestry, poetry as a life force and the legacy of queer Muslim communities creating spaces by and for each other.
If some themes in this episode were challenging or distressing, here are some places that can offer free, anonymous and immediate support. Qlife 1800 184 527 BeyondBlue 1300 22 4636 Lifeline13 11 14 Safe Haven 02 9113 2981 Islamophobia Register - Information for reporting and knowing your rights if you have experienced Islamophobia in so-called Australia
This episode was hosted by Darren Lesaguis and Sara Khan, with special guest Mohammad Awad. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Majeda Beatty is an actor, singer, cultural practitioner and organiser. Darren and Sara spoke to Majeda following the debut her event For The Girls Deadly Edition - a night centring the creative talents of First Nations artists spanning music, drag, photography and art. They spoke about the importance of Blak joy, Blak resilience, and Blak futures; and creating spaces that go beyond an acknowledgement to celebrate First Nations expression and vulnerability.
To find out more about Majeda's work and her upcoming projects, you can follow her Instagram.
This episode was hosted by Darren Lesaguis and Sara Khan, with special guest Majeda Beatty. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Sandy O'Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender and non-binary academic, teaching Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. They speak with Darren Lesaguis about their journey into academia, the term 'queer' in all its complexities, challenging gender binaries and so much more.
You can catch Sandy on the Beyond the Binary panel as part of the Sydney Opera House's All About Women 2022. More info and tickets here.
Follow them on Twitter @sandyosullivan.
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Bali Padda is a man of many hats – he's an actor, TV producer, development executive and director. He joins Sara Khan for a chat about his latest directorial work Guards at the Taj, what drew him to storytelling and his journey through the industry.
Guards at the Taj is showing at Riverside Parramatta until March 5. Head here for more info and tickets.
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Saimi Jeong speaks to Kirk Page, proud Mulandjali man, actor, writer and movement director of the Griffin Theatre Company play Dogged. For more on Dogged and to grab tickets, head here.
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Each year on May 15, Palestinians around the world commemorate Al Nakba, or 'the catastrophe' – the day in 1948 that the state of Israel came into being, marking the start of forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. The genocide against Palestinians continues today. Just this week, violence against Palestinians has spiked, specifically in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Poet and human rights advocate Sara Saleh has recently co-compiled a resource titled 'Supporting Sheikh Jarrah from the Australian Colony'; we speak to her about how we can support Palestinians on the frontline from here, how the conversation around this ongoing violence is changing, and how she sees writing as a form of resistance.
Sara reads her poem Border Control: Meditations, which just won the 2020 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. You'll be able to read it in Overland soon. You can subscribe here.
If you feel you have some gaps in your understanding of the continuing Israeli violence against Palestinians, we highly recommend having a listen to Episode 10 of REVOLUTION NOW PODCAST, 'Palestine in a Podcast' – a generous and comprehensive run through the history of Palestine, the current situation in Sheikh Jarrah, and everything in between.
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Over the past month, Muslim communities all around the world have been fasting for Ramadan. For this episode, Sana Shaikh spoke to five young Eora/Sydney-based Muslims – Subhi Bora, Zaiden Diyab, Junaid Ahmed, Yasmin Jay and Miski Omar – about what Ramadan and Eid mean to them.
At the end of the episode, we mention H—ME W—RK x Liminal Magazine: Witnessing and Caring for India 2021 – an excellent resource if you're looking for a place to start learning about India's current covid crisis, and ways you can help.
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We're not the biggest fans of the unadulterated, and usually unjustified confidence of a cis straight white dude. But recently we've been thinking: how do we harness bits and pieces of that ego without taking it too far? Plus, Race Matters contributor and emerging theatre-maker Eric Jiang chats to Tasnim Hossain, director of Yellow Face at Kings Cross Theatre about what's gone into the production behind the scenes.
The article we mention is 'Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome' by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey, published last month in the Harvard Business Review.
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How do you establish your voice in a space historically held for only one kind of person? Screenwriter Natesha Somasundaram joins us to shed some light on an industry that is (finally) being demanded to change. We also debrief re: last week's Opening Night of seven methods of killing kylie jenner – our thoughts on the incredible play, atmosphere and Sara's interaction with a literal dream Race Matters guest.
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Colourism. The commodification and exploitation of Blackness. Misogynoir. Homophobia. Jasmine Lee-Jones' play seven methods of killing kylie jenner covers all of this and more – through one conversation between best friends. The team behind it is predominantly women of colour, they've brought community engagement front and centre, and we're not kidding when we say you simply must see this play. Hear more from Director Shari Sebbens and Co-Producer, Engagement Moreblessing Maturure, who also plays Cleo in the play.
Plus – Thursday April 15 marked 30 years since the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. Since then, 474 Indigenous people have died in custody. In the past month, there were five deaths. There’s an extensive amount of knowledge, history and information being shared by First Nations folk right now. Here are a few things you can, and should engage with. Listen to this episode of Full Story, where Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to protestors and family members demanding change Read Teela Reid's article in the Sydney Morning Herald, which examines how since invasion, colonisation has perpetrated genocide against First Nations people in this country Donate to the Dhadjowa Foundation, established to provide support to families of those who have lost their lives at the hands of the state.
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"WE WANT YOUR BLOOD" reads a now-infamous post opening expressions of interest for First Nations people to donate blood to an 'artwork' showing at Dark Mofo 2021, by white Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. This week, only after an outpouring of disgust and anger led by First Nations communities was the work begrudgingly cancelled by the Tasmanian arts festival (of course, after the knee-jerk doubling down we've come to expect). We unpack the whole sitch with Wiradjuri artist and poet Jazz Money, talking about the First Nations response and solidarity, the ethics of art, and what work the industry has to do to enact meaningful change.
Plus, on March 16 in Atlanta, Georgia, eight people – six of whom were Asian-American women – were shot and killed when a man opened fire at three separate spas. We speak to writer May Jeong, whose recent article for the New York Times situates this horrific shooting within a broader history of anti-Asian sentiment in the States, and intersects directly with misogyny and classism.
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JALI is a new play showing at the Griffin Theatre, chronicling playwright Oliver Twist's journey from Rwanda, to Malawi, to Ipswich, to here in Sydney, where he's now based. We speak to Oliver about translating his story to the stage, diasporic resilience, and the importance of our ancestors.
Plus, today marks the first day of the Persian calendar – Nowruz. We hear about the significance of the holiday to four people who celebrate: Melody Forghani, Mehrassa Farjad, Tanita Razaghi and Pedram Khosronejad.
Iranzamin at the Powerhouse Museum is on until August. Head here for more info.
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It's a phrase front-of-mind for many of us, especially at the moment; it's also a brand new play about friendship and self-discovery by Miranda Aguilar, showing this week at Parramatta's Riverside Theatre. We chat to Miranda about their inspiration for the work (and title), growing up in Western Sydney, and the change they'd like to see in local theatre this year. Plus, we catch up with cast member and interdisciplinary artist Tommy Misa about their earliest memories of performance, the importance of reclaiming PoC narratives in Sydney's queer histories, and the performers and mentors who have shaped their practice.
Let Me Know When You Get Home is premiering at Riverside Theatre in Parramatta from Thursday 18 March – Saturday 20 March. For tickets and info, head to riversideparramatta.com.au.
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How has your understanding of your relationship changed post-2020? We talk communication, desire and dating as a person of colour, and what we've learned about our partners and ourselves over the past year.
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Ever been told you're "too political"? This one's for you. Plus, we unpack the complexities of questioning Indigenous identity, off the back off conversations that have sparked up around an award-winning Canadian filmmaker who claimed to be Algonquin, Metis and French has been found not to be.
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Fijian-Australian rapper Jesswar on music as self-love, her journey into music, her forthcoming EP, Tropixx and heaps more. You'll also hear an excerpt of Why You Can't Speak For Us, a conversation between Sara Khan, Tameeka Tighe and Alicia Johnson, recorded live at the Australian Museum last month. Plus, we touch on the controversial Facebook ban and its damage to Blak media caught in the crossfire AND debrief about The Test Kitchen, a special four-part podcast series released by Reply All about racism at Bon Appetit – which now itself is at the centre of a conversation about racism and accountability.
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Recorded live at the Australian Museum as part of Ngalu Warrawi Marri – We Stand Strong, on Thursday January 21, 2021. Big thanks to the Australian Museum for recording this so that we could share the panel in full with you.
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We celebrate Lunar New Year with two longtime friends of the show, Justin Tam and Allison Chan. Plus, Allison goes deep into her love of musicals – specifically, Hamilton.
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Off the back of Eddie McGuire's baffling and now-notorious comments responding to a report detailing the history of systemic racism at Collingwood Football Club, we speak to Rana Hussain, Diversity and Inclusion Co-ordinator at Richmond FC and co-host of the Outer Sanctum podcast about the long, ugly reality of racism in footy. Plus, we reflect on the 2020 results of the Scanlon Foundation's 'Mapping social cohesion' survey, which point to a complication of the term 'multiculturalism'.
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Meet one of the activists part of a collective of young Gomeroi people fighting against the fracking of their lands and waters in Narrabri and the Pilliga. Plus, Millie Roberts brings us a story about New Voices on Food, a recently published anthology shining a light on perspectives outside of the endless, inescapable hot takes from old white food critics. Hear from editor Lee Tran Lam, as well as contributors Arabella Douglas and Tyree Barnette.
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It's our first episode back for 2021 – which always seems to coincide directly with Invasion Day. We reflect on the shift from #ChangeTheDate to #AbolishTheDate, discuss the intricacies of allyship in 2021, and unpack the straight-up propaganda from the National Australia Day Council that's doing the rounds at the moment.
Invasion Day protests/rallies are happening all around the country on Jan 26 – a quick Facebook search will help you find one near you. Stay safe, keep hydrated and look after each other.
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An extra Race Matters treat before we officially kick things off for 2021! We're excited to present Binta Yade's 'I Am Black, I Am a Woman, I Matter': an audio exploration of what it means to be a young Black woman in a predominantly white, predominantly right-wing country. You'll hear an introduction from Binta herself, and interviews with Saskia Powell, Majeda Beatty, Sunny Adcock and Issy Parker.
You can find Binta on Instagram @binta.fm.
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When did you realise there is power in your race? Since early 2019, we've been asking each guest that comes on Race Matters that very question. As we crawl to the finish line of this unbelievably challenging year, we thought we'd revisit a bunch of guests' answers. You'll hear from Alicia Johnson, Carolina De La Piedra, Eunice Andrada, IJALE, James Saunders, Janette Chen, Jingan Young, Kiley Reid, Kirli Saunders, KYVA, Lee Tran Lam, Nardean, Prinita Thevarajah, Rachael Hocking, Sab D'Souza, Tasman Keith, Teela Reid, Vivian Pham, Ziggy Ramo and Zindzi Okenyo.
This show would be nothing without our incredible guests. They brought so much honesty, heart, candour and humour to each conversation – even in this dumpster fire of a year – and we could not be more grateful.
And of course, we'd also be nothing without you! THANK YOU for hanging out with us this year. Stay safe and take care over the holidays. We'll catch you in 2021. xo
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What is the rudest thing a stranger has said to you? We want to hear your microaggression tales, big and small. Hit us at racematters [at] fbiradio [dot] com or slide into our DMs @race_matters. Plus, we unpack Ivy Park's recent Blackfishing debacle.
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December means retrospection, and it feels like music is the conversation hot on everyone's lips right now. We chat some of our favourite tracks, artists and musical moments of 2020.
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Western Sydney post-hop queen and 2020 FBi SMAC Award nominee Nardean joins us to chat about family, how music has changed her relationship with her Egyptian roots, and her EP The New Era. Plus, we talk to Kiley Reid, the author of Booker Prize-longlisted novel Such a Fun Age, about the intersections between race and class, and Karenism in its many forms.
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This year found us grasping at queer content by people of colour wherever we could. We try to figure out why, and shout out some of our fave QPoC media through the ages.
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We catch up with Gumbaynggirr rapper and storyteller Tasman Keith about his latest track 'No Country,' how he feels about the industry right now and the complexities of NAIDOC Week.
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We get the lowdown on the confusing and chaotic US election results from Chantelle Al-Khouri, journalist and co-host of Backchat, FBi Radio's politics and current affairs program and podcast. Plus, hear an in-depth conversation with musician Ryan Fennis, about his relationship to his Filipino heritage, his hometown, his introduction to music – and how all three of them intersect.
(Please note: this episode was recorded live-to-air on November 7, about 12 hours before Biden was called as the projected winner of the election.)
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How much have you leant on music as a source of comfort this year? We speak to one of our favourite local musicians, KYVA, about what it is that drives him to make the music he makes – his queer community, his Black community, and the woman that started it all for him. Plus, in light of Halloween, we're talking cultural appropriation, and our favourite scary flicks!
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It's about time we get into another pop culture debrief! We unpack the feud between the original Charmed cast and their new WoC reboot successors and burn-round The Wiggles for a bizarre and problematic song of their from 2014 that recently resurfaced on Twitter. Plus, we shed light on Joanna Schroeder's super insightful Twitter thread on identifying signs of white supremacist indoctrination in teen boys.
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You know we love a bit of self care chat on Race Matters. But mention the "wellness industry" and our gentrification/cultural appropriation alarm bells start ringing. So how can we decolonise wellness? We chat to artist and educator Prinita Thevarajah about Studio Ānanda, the platform she co-founded earlier this year with past guest of the show Fariha Róisín, focused on facilitating true global healing. Our conversation also spans Prinita's reflections on what home means to her, and her glass-making practice Kapu. You can contribute to Prinita's GoFundMe to help build Studio Kapu via the link in her Instagram bio, or here.
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How has this year shaped the way you read? We catch up with Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman Teela Reid – a lawyer, former teacher, and the co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, an Instagram initiative dedicated to providing a space for other Blackfullas to "read and write the revolution." Plus, we unpack the backlash to a particularly disrespectful and disappointing aspect of Rihanna's Savage x Fenty show.
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When there’s endless misinformation and disrespect for First Nations peoples in the media, how do you practice self-care while reclaiming your people’s narrative? This week, we catch up with Gunditjmara and Wiradjuri man James Saunders, an actor, writer and the Business Development and Engagement Manager at renowned media outlet IndigenousX.
James is performing in Good Grief at Chippen Street Theatre this October. More info and tix here.
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The live action remake of Mulan has been the subject of a whole lot of controversy following its release on streaming service Disney Plus six months after its originally-planned cinematic release date. The world has changed SO much in those six months – in ways that only this movie can reveal to us. We speak with Hong Kong-born playwright and screenwriter Jingan Young about what the movie means considering what’s changed in the political sphere of China. Plus, we catch up with journalist Johnny Lieu, who was actually on the set of Mulan back in 2018 in New Zealand.
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Biri Gubba, Barkindji and Waka Waka woman Alicia Johnson joins us this week to talk TikTok, academia, the dangers of self-appointed leadership, and her new podcast, No One. We also take a moment to reflect as we move into Spring, on the fatigue that has come hand in hand with the year so far.
Follow Alicia Johnson on Instagram here, and listen to her podcast here.
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Back in 2018 when Race Matters was but a twinkle in our collective eye, we had big dreams of having musician, actor and Play School presenter Zindzi Okenyo join us on the show. That chat is finally here! And it's well worth the wait – spanning the power of children's TV, the whiteness of theatre in this country, the reception to her track 'Anthropology' and honestly, everything in between.
Plus, we discuss the news that no criminal charges will be laid against the police officers involved in the case of Yorta Yorta woman Aunty Tanya Day's death in custody, and how important it is that these ongoing injustices are consistently brought to light.
The podcast we chat about towards the end of the show is called MOONFACE. You can listen to it here, or on your podcast platform of choice.
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Racist tropes have long plagued white-made horror movies – think tired cultural stereotypes, and Black characters always being the first to die. But the genre has also been reclaimed by people of colour to tell stories of unrest, confront uncomfortable truths and tackle the true horrors of colonial histories. Kodie Bedford tells us about the inspiration for Scout, her short that's part of Dark Place, a 2019 First Nations horror anthology. Plus, hear from Xavier Burgin, the director of Horror Noire – a documentary about Black horror through the decades. We also chat to Ying-Di Yin about her Guardian review of Bong Joon-ho's breakout monster movie The Host, and reflect on Scary Movie 20 years on from its release with Kane Gaundar.
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How do you tackle types of racism that are difficult to pin down? Microaggressions affect communities of colour living within white spaces every day. We chat to Melbourne-based musician IJALE about how the toll they take can extend far beyond their initial impact, the need for a "microaggression hotline", and his new EP Wildly Disparate Sounds. Plus, we talk through our thoughts and feels about the new Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion track and music video.
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"To know that young, promising journalists have not returned to the industry because of racism is a blight all of us should be ashamed of. It’s time for systemic change – and for organisations like ours to own up to it, and do something about it.”
Rachael Hocking's powerful monologue last month on NITV's The Point about racism in news media made serious waves. We chat with the Warlpiri woman and journalist about speaking truth to power on the very platform that you’re critiquing, the current unprecedented reckoning with racism in media, and the importance of self-care, particularly as an Aboriginal reporter covering the Black Lives Matter movement.
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When you hear the phrase “comfort food” – what’s the first thing that comes to mind for you? Chances are, it’ll have something to do with your family, culture and/or childhood memories. As we navigate tough week after tough week, comfort food is something we’re all probably seeking solace in quite a bit at the moment. Hear from Race Matters contributors Bernadette Nguyen, Sunny Lei, Jess Im, Millie Roberts and Rhyan Clapham, and listeners Zoe and Priyani, about what their comfort foods are, and why.
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Food has been seen as a marker of "multiculturalism" for forever – we all know at least one old white guy who reckons his penchant for Chinese takeaway food absolves him of all racism. But the Western food industry – from what we deem as 'fine dining', to which critics' opinions we value, to what we see on-screen – is whitewashed AF. So food writer and radio host Lee Tran Lam started @diversityinfoodmedia.au, dedicated to shining a light on the many incredible people working in food in this country who aren’t straight white chef bros. We chat with Lee Tran about what led to launching that account, her experience navigating the industry over the years, and moving beyond the Ratatouille-style stereotype of the cranky white restaurant critic.
Plus – did you watch Masterchef: Back To Win? The season just gone by has created a buzz like never before, with personal cultural stories being told on national, mainstream TV, not to mention Asian food cooked by Asian people AND judged by an Asian woman. Unheard of! Millie Roberts speaks to Junkee writer and avid Masterchef live-tweeter Michelle Rennex about why this season resonated so hard, and the limitations of this representation.
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A couple of weeks ago in Melbourne, 9 public housing towers were subject to a police-enforced lockdown with no notice. Melbourne musician Remi Kolawole spoke to Najat Mussa, a resident of one of those blocks, shortly after 8 of the 9 towers had been released from lockdown. The hard, localised lockdown has now been lifted across the board – but the way this has unfolded says a lot about the way the government views race, class and its selective duty to protect. Part of this interview originally aired on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR. We're grateful to be able to bring it to you here on the podcast too.
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From the horrific situation that unfolded in nine public housing blocks in Melbourne, to an open letter condemning cancel culture, to a white country band suing a Black blues singer for a name she's been using for 20 years – this ep, we debrief on the hectic week that was. Plus, how white people stepping down from positions of power can be one of the most productive anti-racist acts, and reflections on the recent Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney.
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As more people than ever before begin to grapple with systemic racism around the world, we’re seeing organisations, institutions and even entire industries being rightly held accountable for their racist past and present. To mark our first one hour show on FBi Radio, we reflect on the long, painful road to get Race Matters to where it is today. Plus – last week, as part of a collective of Filipinx-Australian writers, poet Eunice Andrada penned an open letter to Australian arts journal Verity La following their publication of a creative non-fiction piece deemed by many (including now, the journal itself) to be racist and misogynistic. We chat to Eunice about institutional critique and accountability in the literary world, as well as her work co-organising online Filipinx literary festival The Digital Sala.
Content warning: this interview contains mentions of sexual exploitation, sex tourism and abuse.
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We're back together in the studio this week, IRL! What better time to unpack the phenomenon of white women weaponising race (and often, tears) against Black and First Nations people. Why do they do it? And why is it so dangerous to claim victimhood over being called a Karen? Plus, stick around 'til the end of the episode for some exciting news about Race Matters moving forward.
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As the Black Lives Matter movement draws attention to ongoing systemic racism the world over, rapper Ziggy Ramo has just dropped an album that speaks so directly to this moment – but it was actually written five years ago. He takes us through his thought process around releasing the record now, how he decides when to engage with racist rhetoric, and disrupting Eurocentric standards of beauty. Listen to 'Black Thoughts' by Ziggy Ramo, out now on all streaming services.
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It's been a WEEK. Right now we're seeing growing and unprecedented recognition of racism and police brutality – in the States, globally, and of course, here on our soil. So where to from here? How do we sustain this energy today, tomorrow and forever? This episode we're talking about things you can do to keep up the fight against anti-racism. We’ve made some steps, but we've got a long way to go, and a lot of work to do.
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“I can’t breathe” were some of George Floyd’s last words, before his death at the hands of police. This was the same phrase Eric Garner repeated as he was fatally restrained by police in 2014. It’s also the same phrase that Dunghutti man David Dungay repeated in 2015 as he was fatally restrained by prison guards, here in Sydney. As Black Lives Matter protests continue in the States, there are impossible-to-ignore links to the ongoing colonial violence in Australia. We discuss the importance of taking action, paying reparations and constantly challenging white supremacy and anti-Bla(c)kness.
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this episode mentions the name of people who have passed away. This episode also discusses racialised violence and police brutality.
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Between Doja Cat and Lana Del Rey, there is some hectic race-related controversy bouncing around pop music right now. We unpack Lana's dripping-in-white-woman-fragility Instagram rant. Plus, Carolina De La Piedra fills us in on what's going on with Doja, namely her alleged involvement in some incel, white supremacist chat rooms and the resurfacing of an unreleased track of hers based around a racial slur.
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Mindy Kaling's new teen Netflix comedy-drama is being hailed as a watershed moment for South Asian representation. But what does that really mean, when the bar is already so low, if not non-existent? We talk about what Never Have I Ever got right, what it got wrong, and what it meant to us.
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Between 1920 and 1938, a flag bearing the words "A man was lynched yesterday" was flown from the headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in the United States. But as the recent murder of Ahmaud Arbery shows, lynching is far from a thing of the past. This week, we unpack the ongoing struggle to confront and convince the wider community of systematic racism, and the role white people play in upending or upholding these systems. Warning: this episode contains discussions of racialised violence.
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Chinese-Australian author Janette Chen walks us through translating formative experiences onto the page and the pivotal role stationery had in getting her started as a writer. You can read Janette's stories in Sweatshop Women Volume One and Two. Plus, Sara and Tanya catch up on what's been keeping us going this week as we continue to navigate isolation.
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It’s been over a month since the government advised self isolation and social distancing across Australia. A LOT has happened since then... including some deeply misguided at best, unhinged at worst celeb moments (hey Madonna + Gal Gadot, we see you!). In this ep, we reflect on how experiences of the Coronavirus pandemic differs depending on your race, your socioeconomic status, your level of privilege.
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One of the silver linings of this strange moment is that many of us are finding ourselves with a bit of extra time on our hands. Why not spend it with some of the art made by our communities? We put the question to you: what PoC-led media are you loving right now? Hear from listeners + past guests alike on what pop culture they can't get enough of. Plus, local pop icon and past guest Rainbow Chan tells us how she's practising self-care in social isolation.
Full list of the media plugged in this ep: On My Block (Netflix) / @amandabb (Youtube) / Small Doses by Amanda Seales (Booktopia) / Spa Night (SBS On Demand) / HEAVN by Jamila Woods (Spotify) / Priya Krishna (Instagram) / Homebound (To be released; on Instagram @homeboundmovie) / The Family Law (SBS On Demand; Google Play) / Dragon Prince (Netflix) / Man Like Mobeen (Netflix) / Dear White People (Netflix).
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If your artistic practice hinges on live performance, what does COVID-19 mean for you and your livelihood? We catch up with former Race Matters host and rapper DOBBY aka Rhyan Clapham to hear about how he's navigating these uncertain times as a musician. Plus, Soo-Min Shim reads us some quotes that are buoying her through isolation.
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In these incredibly tough times, how are you looking after yourself? We reached out to a bunch of past Race Matters guests and friends to hear how they're practising self-care while physically distancing. You'll hear from Courte Marsh, Nathan Sentance, Winnie Dunn, Chela, Johnny Lieu, Marcus Whale, Ying-Di Yin, Justin Tam, Manisha Anjali, Leah Jing Mcintosh, Ayeesha Ash, and of course, Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis. We'd love to hear from you too – record a voice memo telling us one thing you're doing at the moment to care for yourself and send it to us: racematters [at] fbiradio [dot] com.
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Widely acclaimed not even a month after its publication, Western Sydney author Vivian Pham's 'The Coconut Children' is set to be one of the most loved debuts of the year. She chats about what drew her to the written word, how Sydney Story Factory changed the way she saw writing race, and reclaiming her own narrative.
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We dive into our vault, unearthing a conversation from 2018 with artist, 2019 FBi SMAC Award winner, and Artistic Director of Black Birds theatre collective, Ayeesha Ash – on representation on-stage, Rachel Dolezal, and the power of seeing Solange's Sydney Opera House debut.
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Ahead of Blak Matriarchies, a panel as part of All About Women at the Sydney Opera House, Gunai woman Kirli Saunders joins us to chat about the power of Language, Blak ownership and empowering First Nations youth with her program Poetry in First Languages.
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Has a Facebook group changed the way you connect with your ethnic identity? Artist and researcher Sab D’Souza explores online practices of diasporic youth through their work – so we're diving deep with them into the phenomenon of culturally-specific online communities.
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What role does race play in your romances? In the lead up to Valentine's Day, we unpack some of the complexities that come with interracial relationships, and the damaging simplicity of many of the recurring tropes used to depict them on-screen.
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Ahead of Invasion Day 2020, we talk the ongoing colonisation of this country, what productive, positive allyship can look like, and shifting the focus from simply changing the date to changing the system.
// Invasion Day rallies are happening all over the country on Sunday January 26 - we'll see you at the Warrang leg, starting in Hyde Park at 11am.
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Have you ever been mistaken for someone of a similar ethnic background? Journalist and triple j Hack host Avani Dias explains the psychology behind this phenomenon. Plus, we talk about how social media groups can foster a sense of community by shining a light on common diasporic experiences.
This conversation originally aired in November 2018, on FBi Radio's breakfast show Up For It.
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When did you realise there is power in your race? For more than half the year, we've been asking each guest that comes on Race Matters that very question. So we thought we'd run through a few of them. In this episode, you'll hear from Bhenji Ra, Nayuka Gorrie, Abdul Abdullah, Benjamin Law, Min Jin Lee, Glenny Thomas, Lena Nahlous, Rainbow Chan, Damian Griffis, Ying-Di Yin, Justin Tam, Vicki Van Hout, Joel Bray, Candy Bowers, Aanisa Vylet, Soo-min Shim, Felicia Foxx and Jordy Shea. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to all of our guests this year for their stories, wisdom, humour and vulnerability. And thank YOU for listening. Here's to big things in 2020! x
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On a recent Friday morning, Bundjalung woman Nessa Turnbull-Roberts submitted her Honours thesis, and a few hours later won the Young People's Human Rights Medal. We spoke to her about how she deals with the colonial oppression of universities, her thoughts on Reconciliation Week, and how she practices self-care after protests.
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We reflect on the year gone by, and some of the incredible guests we've been lucky enough to have join us this year. Plus, we chat a couple of recent milestone moments, and our ones to watch for 2020.
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Glenny Thomas from community arts organisation Phunktional talks us through how dance can be used to combat the damage of youth incarceration.
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Filipino-Australian playwright Jordy Shea on what drew him to drama, the importance of community and 'Kasama Kita' - his play currently showing at Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre.
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Rhyan joins us one last time as an in-studio host, for an emotional and laughter-filled yarn with Sara about some of his favourite moments over the past year, and what Race Matters has meant to him. We love you Rhyan!
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When it comes to Asian representation in the media, what's changed over the past year? Following last week's reprise of their conversation around Crazy Rich Asians, we brought back Justin Tam and Ying-Di Yin to talk about Lulu Wang's 2019 film The Farewell, sidelining whiteness in ethnic narratives and the complexities of bi-culturalism.
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Does Asian representation in the media cut it? Publicist and actor Ying-Di Yin and writer and producer Justin Tam return to Race Matters this month to chat Lulu Wang's film The Farewell – but before they do, revisit their chat from last year, talking Crazy Rich Asians.
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What actually is cultural appropriation? And why does it matter? This Halloween, we thought it apt to tackle the ever-controversial topic. Get your bite-sized lowdown right here.
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Political correctness gone mad, or a legitimate way of holding those with influence accountable in the internet age? This week on Race Matters, we tackle cancel culture.
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What’s the connection between colonisation and gay dating app Grindr? And how do you deal with expectations when you make contemporary art through the lens of the world’s oldest living culture? We chat to artists Joel Bray and Vicki Van Hout about this and more, ahead of their two shows as part of Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art this October.
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Aanisa Vylet wrote and stars in Halal Gurls, the world's first hijabi comedy series. We chat to her about her experience making the show, some of her early influences and why authentic, intelligent representation matters.
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We know there's a lack of diverse representation in the arts, especially when it comes to positions of power. But we haven't always had the numbers to prove it. Executive Director of Diversity Arts Australia, Lena Nahlous, unpacks their recent report into arts leadership, diversity and inclusion, proving that we have a problem and directing us to start working on solutions.
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In a Race Matters first, our resident globetrotter Rhyan Clapham talks race, identity and music with French rapper PM Kanza.
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It's Georgia's last show! She reflects on the crushes she's manifested by way of interviewing them for past episodes. Plus, we look to the future, chatting Western Sydney crew ONEFOUR and how they're taking the world by storm.
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Writer, performer and educator Candy Bowers chats Black Girl Magic, reclaiming narratives and tells us the best icebreaker idea we’ve ever heard – tried and tested.
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Damian Griffis is a proud Worimi man and a leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disability. It was an honour to have him on today's show, for a truly insightful chat with Sara about intersectionality, the pros of approaching disability with a social model, and his upcoming panel at Sydney Opera House's Antidote in September.
Plus – at the beginning of the show, Sara spoke about the crisis in Victoria at the moment, on the lands of the Djab Wurrung people. The sacred birthing trees of their lands are about to be knocked down to build a new highway by Victoria Roads. For directions to the protest and numbers to call if you can't physically make it there, head to dwembassy.com/.
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Darren Lesaguis talks to author and broadcaster Benjamin Law about 'Waltzing the Dragon', his two-part doco exploring the long and oft-surprising history between Australia and China. They also chat negotiating identity across generations, and 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' – the recent, vital anthology Law has edited.
Watch 'Waltzing the Dragon' on ABC iView, and find 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' in any good bookstore.
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Sydney multidisciplinary artist and musician Rainbow Chan chats language, culture and identity and how they fit into her new album, Pillar. If you're in Sydney, catch Rainbow live at The Chippo Hotel on Friday August 23.
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Korean-American author Min Jin Lee talks today's America, her 2017 best-selling novel Pachinko, how home and language inform her identity, and why Rihanna's 'Diamonds' is the antithesis to tall poppy syndrome. The book Min recommends is Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation by David L. Eng and Shinhee Han. Plus – if you have some spare change this week, please consider donating to RAICES: https://www.raicestexas.org/
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Author and publisher Gerii Pleitez talks writing, relocation and bypassing literary gatekeepers as a woman of colour.
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Dixie Crawford and Barbie-Lee Kirby join Sara Khan for a special NAIDOC Week 2019 edition of Race Matters, recorded live at the Australian Museum.
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Sexual preference? Or a masked vehicle for racial and economic prejudice? Darren Lesaguis and Western Sydney Greek-Australian novelist, Peter Polites, dive in to the ways cis-gay men navigate identity and desire, including the ways language has been used to define our relationships. Peter's second novel, The Pillars, is out this month. It's a satirical interrogation of the Australian dream of home ownership over a bed of queer noir.
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An insightful conversation with academic, activist and Behrouz Boochani's translator Omid Tofighian, plus a snippet from the live edition of Race Matters as part of NAIDOC Week 2019.
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We celebrate NAIDOC Week 2019 with First Nations drag icon Felicia Foxx.
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Multidisciplinary storyteller Emele Ugavule talks about her work, her experience navigating various sectors of the arts industry, and how AI can promote cultural preservation.
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Talking movement, fluidity and gender with Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist Bhenji Ra. Grab tickets to Junglepussy at Oxford Art Factory, hosted by House of Slé + featuring a bunch of amazing guests, here.
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Think arts writing has nothing in common with lasagne? Think again! Sydney-based arts writer and arts worker Soo-Min Shim explains all.
Check out Desire Lines as mentioned by Soo-Min. Plus, catch Ecologies of Being at Kudos Gallery from July 2.
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Perth-born, Sydney-based artist Abdul Abdullah talks racial profiling, challenging people's prejudiced perceptions of race and culture through art, and King Keanu.
See Abdul speak alongside Omar Musa with live music from OKENYO on Wednesday 8 June at the Art Gallery of NSW. More info here.
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A look into the history and nuance of Reconciliation Week with Sara Khan and Georgia Mokak. For further reading, see 'Decolonization is not a metaphor' by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang – available to read for free here.
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Naarm-based writer and social commentator Nayuka Gorrie on the power of Blak women, self-care and the moment they realised their race was powerful.
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Intergenerational language, first times in drag and... Spider-Man fan fiction? Korean-American writer and essayist Alexander Chee talks to Darren about his best-seller How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and so, so much more.
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Bestselling author of Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, on home, his experience as a young Black male writer, and his passionate take on the latest season of Game of Thrones (spoiler alert for Season 8 Episode 3 from 29:30 – consider yourself warned!).
This episode features tunes from ScHoolboy Q ft. Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monae, Solange and Ramin Djawadi.
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Sweatshop Western Sydney manager Winnie Siulolovao Dunn and author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah examine the power of writing from the margins.
Grab your copy of Sweatshop Women: Volume One here.
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wāni Le Frère's very first spoken word performance was at an open mic, where he read his diary aloud at a friend's suggestion and moved audience members to tears. He then proceeded to fall in love with the artform via Tupac Shakur, John Coltrane and Nina Simone. Ahead of the Sydney premiere of Tales of an Afronaut at Griffin Theatre's Batch Festival, the Naarm-based artist speaks to Darren and Rhyan about the self, family, masculinity and what Nas’ Illmatic means to him.
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Have you ever considered who gets to decide what's put in a museum? Nathan Sentance, First Nations project officer at the Australian Museum, joins Darren and Sara to speak about the importance of Indigenous ownership over the histories and stories told by cultural institutions about First Nations peoples.
Read more of Nathan's work at Archival Decolonist, and follow him on Twitter.
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In Sydney for the first time, Persian-Kiwi rapper, audio engineer and producer CHAII joins Georgia and Rhyan in conversation on the site of the 4Elements Hip Hop Festival in Bankstown. Watch her stellar debut music video here.
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"I don't see myself casting as a white dude as the lead in my movie," Jordan Peele, director of Get Out – and the new and incredibly successful Us – has said. Darren and Sara chat about why Peele may feel this way, why it's an uncontroversial notion, and the importance of strong and varied representation in film.
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An integral figure in Sydney's creative scene today, Nadia Hernández is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land. Over two days, Georgia Mokak and Rhyan Clapham shared tea and stories in Nadia's home, spanning reflections on her homeland Venezuela, the complexities of diaspora and the influence of both of these on her practice.
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In this episode of Race Matters, Georgia and Rhyan speak to multidisciplinary artist Nadia Hernández about her practice, homeland, and experience as a diasporic Venezuelan woman living in Sydney.
An extended version of this conversation with Nadia will be released later this week - to make sure you get it first, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, or keep your eye on our Spotify and website feeds.
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This week on Race Matters, Tanya chats to Emily Havea, a Sydney-based actor, singer and dancer who is currently starring in a one-woman play titled Grounded, at Parramatta's Riverside Theatre. They talk growing up Brown in white spaces, creative communities of colour and Brown Skin Girl, an incredible play from Sydney theatre collective Black Birds that Emily has written and starred in. You also hear from Leah Jing Mcintosh, the founder and editor of Liminal magazine, about the Liminal Fiction Prize: a creative writing prize for and judged by Australian writers of colour.
Black Birds are doing another show this April. It's called Exhale and you can head here to find out more / buy tickets.
Grab tickets to see Emily in the already widely acclaimed Grounded here.
Find more information about the launch of Liminal's first print edition in Melbourne here.
We also begin the show with a few words about the Christchurch terrorist attacks that Tanya shared earlier in the day, on Monday Arvos. If you have the means, the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups and the New Zealand Islamic Information Centre are both running funds to support the victims and their families.
It's not every day that Fariha Róisín is in town. Now based in Brooklyn, the Australian-Canadian writer, editor, podcaster and delightful human was Sydneyside for a panel titled WoC Solidarity: Beyond Performative Allyship. You heard part of our interview with her on Episode 8 of Race Matters, but we felt so energised (and, tbh, smitten!) after our sprawling conversation with her that we wanted to make it available to you in full.
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This episode features tunes from Tommy Genesis, Gonjasufi, Swet Shop Boys and M.I.A.
Today on Race Matters with Georgia Mokak, we hear from Brooklyn-based Australian-Canadian writer, editor and podcaster Fariha Róisín. She speaks with Rhyan Clapham and Tanya Ali about growing up in Australia, diasporic experience and the importance of meaningful allyship. Later this week, we'll be releasing an extended cut of Rhyan and Tanya's conversation with Fariha – so keep an eye out on iTunes, Spotify and our podcast page.
Right at the end of today's show, we mention a really valuable resource – Aamer Rahman's video about reverse racism. Watch it here.
In a special edition of Race Matters live-to-air on International Women's Day, Sara and Georgia catch up with Kween G for an in-depth chat about culture, gender and hip hop in Sydney.
How do you decide what is acceptable in the content you consume? Where do you draw your line? In this special episode of Race Matters, we explore feminism and queerness in hip hop, and how it's changed over time. You'll hear from Joan Morgan, Carolina Gasolina and Georgia Mokak, and hear tunes from Sampa the Great, Lauryn Hill and Okenyo, Miss Blanks & Jesswar.
If this topic is your jam, make sure you head along to Joan Morgan's talk at All About Women this Sunday March 10. All details at sydneyoperahouse.com.
Today on Race Matters, Darren and Tanya are joined by Filipino-Australian writer, producer and director Vonne Patiag to talk about his 2018 short film Tomgirl, queerness and masculinity. How do we, of the diaspora, define or redefine notions of identity that follow us from overseas? Namely, what does it mean to be Bakla in contemporary Australia? You can stream Tomgirl on SBS on Demand, and catch Vonne speaking this Sunday March 10 at Sydney Opera House's All About Women festival, on a panel titled 'Man up.'
You'll also hear from American author Joan Morgan talking Lauryn Hill, hip hop and feminism – and you can catch her speaking more on all of those things this weekend at her talk at All About Women too. Grab tickets from sydneyoperahouse.com.
Also, Solange dropped her album When I Get Home last week and we have THOUGHTS!
Stay tuned for a special Race Matters podcast featuring an extended chat with Joan Morgan and further exploration of feminism, queerness and inclusion in hip hop, out this Wednesday.
This week on Race Matters, Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis are joined by writer Tyree Barnette, who is a part of the Western Sydney Sweatshop collective – a literacy movement devoted to empowering groups and individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Exploring his piece Being an African-American in Australia, we discuss the hierarchy of Blackness in Australia, comparing American and Australian notions of racism, and how to turn feelings of rage, violation and powerlessness into hope and resistance. Catch Tyree speaking as part of the Nick Cave x Sweatshop readings at Carriageworks on Saturday 2 March – 11am, and it's free! You can purchase writing from Sweatshop from their website.
On today's episode of Race Matters, Ryan Clapham and Georgia Mokak are joined by musician, producer and radio host Diola, and South-West Sydney based artist Zeadala, who are on the lineup for this Friday's Artivista at the Red Rattler in Marrickville - A night of Women in Hip Hop. They talk moments at which generations of sisterhood - newcomers and pioneers - meet to share and reflect on their stories, and where new paths are forged for young women and non-binary folk to thrive in the hip hop community. Find out what Diola and Zeadala believe is the driving force behind many of these people being people of colour.
Where were you when Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations? This Wednesday marks 11 years since the day. On this week's episode of Race Matters, Sara shares her experience of the day, how far we've come, and how far we have to go. Sara and Darren are also joined by queer Haitian-Australian, actor, singer, dancer and all round powerhouse, Nancy Denis. You might remember her from her role in last year's production of The Rolling Stone,set in Uganda, where she plays the homophobic 'Mama' outing the man who impregnates her daughter, resulting in his death. Today, she talks modes of assimilation as a black woman growing up in white Australia, white fragility, and theatre moments that made her proud. Warning: strong language.
This week on Race Matters, Rhyan and Georgia are joined by up-and-coming superstar Kaiit. Connecting on the phone from hometown Melbourne, Kaiit talks her experiences of being a First Nations woman in the music industry and gives some advice to her younger self. Rhyan also outs Georgia as the maker of a very sweet welcome card when she was in town last year for Klub Koori. Cute!
This week's Race Matters spans identity, icons and Invasion. Sara and Rhyan are joined by special guest Barbie-Lee Kirby, a Ngemba/Wailwan, Baakindji and Yuwaalaraay woman. Barbie is a NASCA board member and the CEO of We Pledge, an initiative that seeks to connect Indigenous female high school students with Indigenous professional women across various industries. The crew speak on the huge Invasion Day rallies around the country, and the need to #changethenation rather than simply change the date. They also reflect on the importance of community coming together at Yabun, and the powerful, joyous comeback of deadly 2000s legends Shakaya, who performed at the festival.
Welcome to Race Matters! In our first episode of 2019, hosts Darren Lesaguis and Georgia Mokak are joined by musician, co-host of FBi Radio's Sleepless in Sydney and multidisciplinary artist Marcus Whale. They discuss Marcus' experience of the Sydney music scene, his band BV's upcoming reunion show, and the importance of reclamation and creations of language and dialects. Darren and Georgia also chat about an epic astronomical phenomenon that so happens to coincide with the Race Matters 2019 debut!