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Race Matters
by FBi Radio
Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.Listen back to all our episodes on fbi.radio including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our instagram Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands series - an experimental, queer audio offeringWe honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of. Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran Race Matters is made possible thanks to the Community Broadcasting Foundation
Episodes
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#206 Comp/Ute/Ost
What Does It Mean To Be A Person Beyond the Body? In today's convo, Race Matters' Janey Li and Sehej Kaur chat with technologist, researcher, designer and writer of A Sexual History of the Internet's Mindy Seu. A day after Mindy's lecture performance of the same title, the trio touch on the...
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#205 The Poetics of Chanting
What role does spirituality play in our solidarity movements? What is spirituality without accountability? Alicia Zhao traces the connection between ritual, chanting and protest, joined by Joannie Lee. We hear from artist, organiser and Buddhist practitioner Elaine Su-Hui, who reflects on how...
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#204 All the Best & Race Matters Present: 3CRs Beyond the Bars Prison Radio
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…
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#203 Wall Street, Boundary Street: Saul Williams & DRMNGOW on Empire, Music and Liberation
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…
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#202 Building new worlds on the grave of AI
“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...
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#201 Palestine Is The Litmus Test
'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...
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#200 They're Finally Looksmaxxing With the Rest Of Us
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...
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#199 Mothering Thru Fascism
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...
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#198 Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars
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...
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#197 Justice is Love in Public
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…
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#196 Rivers of Memory
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...
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#195 The Politics of Noise
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...
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#194 Shareeka's Final Show
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...
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#193 To those who came before us
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…
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#192 On Queer and Crip Kinship
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…
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#191 All in one movement for Myanmar
"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...
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#190 On forging community cinema spaces
"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…
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#189 Anti-caste science fiction
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...
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#188 Joy as Discipline
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...
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#187 How to build together
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...
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#186 Reprezenting Community Radio
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,...
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#185 Fracturing the language of empire
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...
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#184 Black Thoughts Matter
"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…
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#183 Listening through glitch
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...
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#182 Desire Made from Corpses
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...
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#181 Holding Breath
“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...
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#180 The energy of the moment
"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...
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#179 Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
"... 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...
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#178 A Cacophony of ancestors
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,...
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#177 77 Years of Resistance
"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...
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#176 Unsettling Zionist Funding in the arts
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…
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#175 To be the songline that outlives the corroded disk
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...
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#174 Kanaky Rising
“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...
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#173 Strength in prayer, in spirit
"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…
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#172 A menace to our enemies
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...
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#171 The Ruby of Western Sydney
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...
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#170 Redfern Renaissance
“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...
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#169 Our voices together, bouncing off the walls
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...
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#168 Hope is a knife
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…
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#167 The struggle is generational
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…
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#166 Did you come here to find history?
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...
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#165 One day longer, one day stronger
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…
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#164 Unspeakable
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,...
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#163 Masala Marathon
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....
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#162 Found family: meet our new voices
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…
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#161 How we show up: BDS as solidarity practice
"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,...
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Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries: Your Feelings Are Your Responsbility
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...
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#158 The Pandemic Is A Portal
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...
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#157 PRESS X TO CONTINUE
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…
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#156 Language Under Occupation
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...
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Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.Listen back to all our episodes on fbi.radio including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our instagram Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands series - an experimental, queer audio offeringWe honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of. Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran Race Matters is made possible thanks to the Community Broadcasting Foundation
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