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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 David share a few pieces of material recorded at different points over the past few years with Gunggari scholar, writer and mother, Dr. Raylene Nixon.
Over a series of interviews and recordings, Dr. Nixon shares the heart-breaking story of her son, Stevie-Lee Nixon McKellar, who was killed in police custody in Toowoomba in 2021. First up, you’ll hear an interview that Chelsea and David recorded with Raylene in September 2023, as the family was preparing to go into the coronial inquest into Stevie-Lee’s death in Toowoomba.
Then, you’ll hear some recordings from the protest organised by the family on the first day of the inquest, where family and friends gathered to remember Stevie-Lee and demand accountability from the people and institutions that killed him. We then hear Raylene reading the full statement that she and her family prepared for the inquest, which they were not allowed to read in the courtroom.
And finally, we hear Raylene speaking earlier this year at the National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Theory and Practice, reflecting on what justice looks like from her vantage point as an academic, an activist, and a mother with a broken heart.
Reading list
https://www.classpr.com.au/2023/11/21/final-statement-from-the-family-of-steven-nixon-mckeller/
Radio Reversal podcast. Episode 19: What If the Catastrophe Has Never Ended? n.d. https://www.radioreversal.org/episode-18-what-if-the-catastrophe/
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.
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By Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr David SinghWelcome 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 David share a few pieces of material recorded at different points over the past few years with Gunggari scholar, writer and mother, Dr. Raylene Nixon.
Over a series of interviews and recordings, Dr. Nixon shares the heart-breaking story of her son, Stevie-Lee Nixon McKellar, who was killed in police custody in Toowoomba in 2021. First up, you’ll hear an interview that Chelsea and David recorded with Raylene in September 2023, as the family was preparing to go into the coronial inquest into Stevie-Lee’s death in Toowoomba.
Then, you’ll hear some recordings from the protest organised by the family on the first day of the inquest, where family and friends gathered to remember Stevie-Lee and demand accountability from the people and institutions that killed him. We then hear Raylene reading the full statement that she and her family prepared for the inquest, which they were not allowed to read in the courtroom.
And finally, we hear Raylene speaking earlier this year at the National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Theory and Practice, reflecting on what justice looks like from her vantage point as an academic, an activist, and a mother with a broken heart.
Reading list
https://www.classpr.com.au/2023/11/21/final-statement-from-the-family-of-steven-nixon-mckeller/
Radio Reversal podcast. Episode 19: What If the Catastrophe Has Never Ended? n.d. https://www.radioreversal.org/episode-18-what-if-the-catastrophe/
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.