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Race Matters

Race Matters is an anti-racistshow 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 ourinstagram Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and ourLiquid Homelands series - an experimental,

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#142 Everything is Connected (with Tahlia Palmer /...

Race Matters ·

2023/09/25

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

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40:37

Solidarity Syndicate: Shiralee Hood for Beyond the...

Race Matters ·

2023/09/18

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

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50:33

Race Matters Live: Embers (with Aaliyah-Jade...

Race Matters ·

2023/09/04

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,

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47:27

#141 You Have Been Told A Lie (with Jay Ooi & Thinesh...

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2023/08/28

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,

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42:58

#140 Decoding Race, Ai, Algorithms & Automation (with...

Race Matters ·

2023/07/31

DECODING RACE, AI, ALGORITHMS & AUTOMATION 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

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39:45

#139: Crafting Liberatory Economies (with Mia Shouha...

Race Matters ·

2023/07/10

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

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42:23

#138: Abolition Dreaming (with Latoya Aroha Rule)

Race Matters ·

2023/06/26

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

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25:22

Solidarity Syndicate: Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury for Radio...

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2023/05/29

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

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38:01

Book Club with Amplify Bookstore (with Balli Kaur...

Race Matters ·

2023/05/22

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

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39:59

#137: Always, Becoming (with Nardi Simpson)

Race Matters ·

2023/05/16

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

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26:24

#136: For Us, By Us (with Tanya Akinola / Black...

Race Matters ·

2023/05/01

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

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27:23

#135: Cinema Beyond Borders (with Hajer Al-Awsi /...

Race Matters ·

2023/04/24

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

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26:33

Episode 134: Storytelling as Technology (with Luke...

Race Matters ·

2023/04/16

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

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Episode 133: Codebreaking (with Catherine Madziva /...

Race Matters ·

2023/04/12

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

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46:25

Imagination as Practice (with Jamaica Moana, Latoya...

Race Matters ·

2023/04/03

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

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Episode 132: Sonic Rituals (with Papaphilia)

Race Matters ·

2023/03/20

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

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46:43

Episode 131: Mana-Hononga-Tangata (with Sezzo,...

Race Matters ·

2023/03/07

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

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Episode 130: To Love, Courageously (with Mimi Zhu)

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2023/02/20

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

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Episode 129: Queer Displacements (with Renee Dixson /...

Race Matters ·

2023/02/13

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 Dixson, 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

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47:49

Sara's Last Show

Race Matters ·

2022/12/12

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

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