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Read The Play
by Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr David Singh
Join your favourite “nerds on the frontline” Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory. Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea & David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to “read the play” in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty. Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea & David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.
Episodes
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The Great Race Debate
Welcome to our final episode of Read the Play! This week, Chelsea & David bring together a whole bunch of content from the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Thory and Practice, offering us some final words on race, resistance, refusal and joy. To start, you’ll hear the wonderful Vernon...
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Justice is what love looks like in public (Justice for Stevie-Lee)
Welcome back to our second-last episode of Read the Play, and another heavy and vital conversation about the everyday violence of racism, and the powerful love, resistance, and presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that confronts it head on. In this episode, Chelsea and...
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Racism is a matter of life and death (Justice for Dougie)
This episode of Read the Play is a heavy one, but it is vital listening if we are to properly understand the stakes of Indigenous Critical Race Theory in this moment. In this episode, Chelsea & David return to Indigenist Health Humanities to understand the violence that Aboriginal and Torres…
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Telling the Truth
In this week’s episode of Read the Play, Chelsea & David ask: what does it mean to tell the truth about the nature of racism in the colony? And how can we dedicate ourselves to truth-telling in all the work we do? Through a series of short excerpts, this episode weaves together an account of...
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Resisting Complicity
In this episode, Chelsea & David dig into one of the key conceptual frameworks that Indigenous critical race theory offers: complicity. Through three conversations with people engaged in very different kinds of political and intellectual work, they draw out the role of Indigenous critical race...
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Getting Organised
This week, Chelsea & David dive into the relationship between Indigenous critical race theory and the long and proud tradition of Aboriginal community-led organising, activism and grassroots struggle on this continent. They kick off with an older interview with Widjabul Wia-bal activist and...
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Building Solidarity
This week, we move beyond the university to engage with the diverse ways that communities are organising themselves in response to the persistent violence of racism, colonialism, and capitalism in this moment. Through a series of short excerpts from broader conversations with Sam Watson Junior…
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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...
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Finding your fight
In this episode, Chelsea & David ask: what can we learn from paying attention to the work that Blackfullas are doing across diverse frontlines in the war on race? From racial complaints processes, to suing the racists; working to redistribute their resources, or refusing to participate in their...
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What do we want? When do we want it?
In this episode, Chelsea & David share a special panel recording from the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Theory and Practice, bringing together Prof Gracelyn Smallwood, Dale Ruska, Uncle Coco Wharton and Senator Lidia Thorpe to share their responses to the question: “what do we…
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Insisting on Indigenous Humanity
This week on Read the Play, Chelsea and David reflect on what it means to insist on Indigenous humanity: a humanity that is not defined by proximity to whiteness or power, but rather grounded in sovereignty, spirit, and struggle. First up, you’ll hear an interview with Darumbal and South Sea...
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Building Critical Black Consciousness
This week, Chelsea and David bring together two key thinkers in the war on race: Uncle Graham Brady and Uncle Philip Mills. First up, we hear Uncle Graham’s generous and thoughtful opening keynote from the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Theory and Practice in which he reflects on…
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Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty & Aboriginal Terms of Reference
In this first episode, Chelsea & David catch up with three powerhouses of critical Indigenous studies in this colony: Professor Lester Rigney, Dr. Aunty Lilla Watson, and Dr. Aunty Mary Graham. Together, they ask: what does it mean to work from Aboriginal terms of reference? What does Indigenous...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join your favourite “nerds on the frontline” Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory. Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea & David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to “read the play” in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty. Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea & David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.
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Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr David Singh
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Join your favourite “nerds on the frontline” Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory. Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea & David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous...
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