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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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47:04

#185 Fracturing the language of empire

Race Matters ·

2025/11/06

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

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40:55

#184 Black Thoughts Matter

Race Matters ·

2025/10/22

"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 bookAnother Day in the Colony, a leading thinker, and

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31:54

#183 Listening through glitch

Race Matters ·

2025/09/10

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/See

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29:18

#182 Desire Made from Corpses

Race Matters ·

2025/07/25

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

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52:19

#181 Holding Breath

Race Matters ·

2025/07/08

“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 herHolding Breathexchange 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

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42:20

#180 The energy of the moment

Race Matters ·

2025/07/01

"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 HelaluddinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:25

#179 Find Me at the Jaffa Gate

Race Matters ·

2025/05/27

"... 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

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48:14

#178 A Cacophony of ancestors

Race Matters ·

2025/05/23

How do we understand hope as something within ourselves, and not as a far off horizon? A conversation with anti-oppressive therapist and educatorLeah Manaema Aveneon 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 seriesMÅNGATAand

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28:41

#177 77 Years of Resistance

Race Matters ·

2025/05/20

"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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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59:32

#176 Unsettling Zionist Funding in the arts

Race Matters ·

2025/05/09

Without truth, what ground is there to stand on? We started this piece intoCreative Australia's appalling decision to rescind Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi's positionfrom 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

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39:36

#175 To be the songline that outlives the corroded disk

Race Matters ·

2025/04/21

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 futuristKathryn Gledhill-Tuckerto 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

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37:33

#174 Kanaky Rising

Race Matters ·

2025/04/04

“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 toreclaim their land from French occupation, fighting for life and independence. Ethan and Shareeka speak to Roscoe, a special rapporteur forRadio 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

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28:48

#173 Strength in prayer, in spirit

Race Matters ·

2025/03/25

"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

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44:13

#172 A menace to our enemies

Race Matters ·

2025/03/25

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

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33:10

#171 The Ruby of Western Sydney

Race Matters ·

2025/03/18

It takes a femme queen to make an unforgettable performance. 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 HelaluddinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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#170 Redfern Renaissance

Race Matters ·

2025/01/28

“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 withAngeline 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

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34:48

#169 Our voices together, bouncing off the walls

Race Matters ·

2025/01/06

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 artistLulu 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

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38:52

#168 Hope is a knife

Race Matters ·

2024/12/23

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 kinMustafa. 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

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41:57

#167 The struggle is generational

Race Matters ·

2024/12/09

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

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43:45

#166 Did you come here to find history?

Race Matters ·

2024/12/02

Objects tell their stories if you let them. Bringing together inane objects, tapestries, Musiviri paintings and self portraits; Nusra Latif Qureushi 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

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