Standing Your Ground

This week on Read the Play, Chelsea and David consider what it takes to stand your ground in the face of relentless colonial violence. They share an interview recorded with Professor Eddie Cubillo when he was in the depths of a prolonged fight against racism at the Melbourne Law School. In the second part of this episode, Chelsea & David share a recording from the indomitable Palestinian scholar and writer, Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah, speaking at the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Theory and Practice. Randa shares her own powerful account of standing her ground as a Palestinian scholar in this political moment: what it means to work from a place of uncompromising love for Palestinians, for Blackfullas, and for all of those facing the violence of colonial systems head on. Essential listening in this moment of intensifying political repression and censorship. Reading list Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Coming of Age in the War on Terror. NewSouth Publishing, 2021. Cubillo, Eddie. ‘30th Anniversary of the RCIADIC and the “White Noise” of the Justice System Is Loud and Clear’. Alternative Law Journal 46, no. 3 (2021): 185–92. Cubillo, Eddie. ‘NAIDOC Special Edition: Education: Indigenous Programs at Law School’. Law Institute Journal 96, no. 7 (2022): 30–34. Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Discipline. UQP, University of Queensland Press, 2025. Credits Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country’s Let’s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute’s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson. Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of ‘Live, Laugh, Decolonise’ and ‘Eat the World’ Production & Sound Design: BlakCast Productions Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm. This podcast was supported (partially) by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Projects funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.