Race Matters

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 edit by Mateo Baskaran

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"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, third-generation Palestinian organiser and advocate Rand Khatib to take us through the legacy of resistance in her blood, and the power of collective action through BDS actions that Palestinians have long-called for. Every day, there are non-violent, material ways we can commit to the end of occupation.

We also also hear from those in our local community practicing BDS and what their experiences of learning this, have been.

Join us: BDS actions is so-called Australia

National week of BDS Action

National Day of Action against Caltex November 16

Global BDS updates

Hosted and produced by Toobs and Joannie Lee, with voice notes from Betty, Christie and Jess edited by Joannie Lee
Executive produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran

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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 the intimate experiences of workers Natasha, Tamil King and Korie, on the pleasures and truths of navigating different spaces in the sex industry. The series artwork is by Katy Cao. 

In the introduction, Jasmine is reading from Against White Feminism: Rafia Zakaria

This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

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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 from The Disability Justice Network and Li from COVID Solidarity ‘syd.’

Produced by Samantha Haran, Shareeka Helaluddin & Sehej Kaur. Additional thanks to Justin Chen, Allison Chan and Juliet Fox.

Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran
Episode artwork by Li @eternallyuncomfortable

Arundhati Roy on ‘The pandemic is a portal’: https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

COVID resources:

• Let Them Eat Plague! (Intro to COVID politics and basic COVID myth busting): https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-plague/ 
• You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence (Mia Mingus) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/ 
• How to do COVID Conscious events resource (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kf1AKdE0j5k2hqIOvIjeS4tYzxgsoar6SOot6JklLE4/edit 
• NSW COVID safer venues database (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAN1QE_4_b5JSzwooQSEXwlM995UusdU9w4rswRecZ0/edit?gid=1146046115#gid=1146046115 
• What to do if you have COVID (by The Peoples CDC - US based): https://peoplescdc.org/2023/01/10/what-to-do-if-you-have-covid/ 

 

Support the rich chorus of voices that made this episode possible:

• Read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s latest book: https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/ 
• Read the Sick/Sovereign zine: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/policy-and-events/policy/covid-19/resources/first-nations-zine/ 
• Darcy’s work with Blackfulla Alt2Su: https://instagram.com/BlackfullaAlt2Su
• Join the Disability Justice Network facebook group (disabled people only): https://www.facebook.com/share/g/zYoTbvvRLkQYYSJz/?mibextid=adzO7l
• Donate to the Disability Justice Network mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/disability-justice-network-mutual-aid-fund
• Follow COVID Solidarity ‘syd’: https://www.instagram.com/c0vidsolidaritysyd/ 

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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 about Muriel Tramis

Play Danielle’s work:
Black Trans Archive 
I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU ANYMORE

Hosted by Sara El Youghun and Mateo Baskaran
Produced by Janey Li
Executive Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin

Additional music and visuals from Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley courtesy of the artist.

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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 Centre (Victoria) and online from August 2-4. To learn more about this ground-breaking literary festival, visit this site. Hasib will appear at the event Language Under Occupation alongside Evelyn Araluen and Mykaela Saunders.  

Hosted and co-produced by Alicia Zhao & Toobs Anwar
Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN Edit by Mateo Baskaran

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What is it to hold the heartbreak of facing a world of systemic injustice, and turn it into energy and meanignful action?

We're joined by Inez, a radio broadcaster on 3CR's Thursday Breakfast, community organiser and mental health worker. An intimate chat on navigating hurt and anger of dealing with systemic injustice, processing the recent Indian election and its impact, and how a solidarity with Falasteen has nurtured a retuning to their Sikh faith. 

In this spirit, Inez has shared some foundational texts and further reading - "these thoughts and sentiments follow a long lineage of radical Black, Indigenous, and/or Muslim female writers, organisers, and revolutionaries - long before me"

• Dr Ayesha Khan: Care, Relationships and Direct Action
• Audre Lorde: Your Silence Won't Protect You
• Palestinian Narrative Therapy book - "Responding to Trauma That is Not Past" written by Palestinians trauma counsellors and psychologists and ex-detainees. 

Support

• Gaza Mutual Aid 
• Sudan Updates
• Focus Congo
• Dhadjowa Foundation
• Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund (National)

Produced and hosted by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran

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There are no universities left in Gaza. 

Alicia Zhao & Samantha Haran take us through the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza, a soundscape of the Student Intifada. Field recordings from across so-called australia and a foundational teach in by Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti educator and poet Lizzie Jarrett. 

Even in lulls and in the quiet, you can hear it. You can hear the possibility of another world brewing.

In the spirit of collective action there were many people that made this piece possible. This piece was produced by Samantha Haran & Alicia Zhao; Scripting, USYD & UNSW recordings by Samantha Haran; Soundscapes by Alicia Zhao & Mateo Baskaran; Teach in by Lizzie Jarrett, co-organised and recording assisted by Rand Khatib; UQ recordings by Anna Carlson; Creative direction and final mixing and sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin; Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran

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Full house on Race Matters today as we welcome the amazing crew from Jam for Justice - a community fundraiser happening on June 22 raising funds for PARA (Palestine Australia Relief and Action) to support Gazans on the ground, and Palestinians seeking asylum in australia. Hear from artists and organisers Wytchings (Jenny), Zeadala (Zainab), Tru (Sara), Emad (Jafar) and Wasiela (an.other collective) about this upcoming event and collective resistance and care in this moment. 

Hosted by Joannie Lee and Bipasha Roy
Produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran

Other ways to show your support:

DEiFY - action toolkit  - comprehensive, updated actions
Gaza Mutual Aid Fund (instagram)
Operation Olive Branch
Palestine Action Group 

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Censorship in the arts has been rampant across our galleries, theaters, airwaves and screens. As the genocide devastates across Palestine in its seventh month, we witness sites of art-making cower away from speaking out and silencing artists who do. In this tumultuous and heartbreaking climate - how do we understand the role of the artist? Hear from artists Lux Æterna, Alissar Chidiac and Nicole Barakat unpacking this, creating an intergenerational chat on the need for artists to be vigilant witnesses and creative resistors. 

They’re part of an exhibition at The Cross Art Projects, Potts Point Forms of Censorship - gathering artists across forms and identity to query the culture of self-censorship on now, and has been extended until until June 15th 2024.

Other works referenced

•  This bridge called my back - Writings by radical women of colour
• Mondoweiss - From the River to the Sea, history, meaing and power
• artists for Palestine 2023 - instagram campaign calling galleries into account, publishing responses (or lack of) from artistic boards
  
  

Hosted and produced by Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN edit by Mateo Baskaran

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