Radio Reversal Podcast

In this first episode, we draw together speeches, interviews, public discussions and readings, to get a sense of what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023, and the relationship between the current atrocities and a much longer history of Israeli settler colonialism. In the second half of the episode, we listen to a reading from Dr. Jamal Nabulsi's formative essay "Righting the History of Palestine". You can read the full essay here: https://overland.org.au/2021/06/righting-the-history-of-palestine/

Like most of the episodes in this series, this carries a strong content warning for graphic descriptions of genocide, war crimes, racial violence, gendered and sexual violence. If any of this content is likely to be triggering, we recommend that you make a plan for supporting yourself in advance, including making sure you have friends or family to call if you need help or care, or contacting services like Lifeline (13 11 14) for free, anonymous counselling support.

In this episode, you’ll hear from staunch Palestinian organisers and community members, including (in order) Khawla, Malaak, Remah, Hidaya, Zayd, Jamal and Muntaser. You’ll also hear from Muslim comrade and organiser Binil, and Radio Reversal producer Anna.

If you’d like to access the full audio archive of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin struggle, please get in touch with us via substack and we’ll organise access to anything you need.One of the primary goals of this podcast series is to encourage listeners to become actively involved in the struggle for justice here in Magandjin, so-called brisbane, and wherever you're listening.

To get involved in so-called brisbane, sign up to the Justice for Palestine Magandjin mailing list here: https://facebook.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=852d9d811ba1f7225b7dd3570&id=5264e5d000Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforpalestinebrisbane/

Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justiceforpalestine.magandjin/

If you're further afield, find your local movement via the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network: https://apan.org.au/

We also encourage listeners who are concerned by the atrocities in Palestine to recognise the similarities between Israeli settler colonialism and the settler colonial occupation in so-called australia. As we learn each week at our protests, colonisation is a global system that must be defeated everywhere. To get involved in the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty on these lands, check out the following:

https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/

https://www.facebook.com/treatybeforevoice/

https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective/

If you haven't already, you should also try and follow independent Indigenous journalists and media makers, including:

https://www.blackjusticejournalism.com.au/

https://triplea.org.au/

Reversers! Welcome to Sunday morning and to the third episode of the Radio Reversal Podcast.

Today’s episode is the third and final instalment of our introductory mini series, Learning Out Loud, and it follows on from last week’s sampling of our joint podcast launch party with fellow fresh Zed-casters Paradigm Shift on Sunday 24th September 2023. For that event, we welcomed our incredible community of listeners and contributors to join the RR collective (Anna, Nat, Shreya & Han) and Paradigm Shift’s Andy Paine for a wholesome-as-heck live-radio-style mixtape, accompanied by the slightly chaotic fun of everyone’s favourite experimental house band, It’s Science And Feelings - aka Jodie Rottle, Matt Hsu, and RR's own Han Reardon-Smith.

The soundmaking-as-kinmaking continues throughout today’s episode, which features performances by protest-as-pedagogy singer-songwriters Phil Monsour and Andy Paine, along with Lamisse Hamouda performing a poem by Portuguese artist Grada Kilomba along with her own work.

To gear you up for the density of all this brilliance, Nat and Han got together to recap our favourite moments of the launch, and to engage with some of the thinking about making art that is entangled with politics. We dig into “companion thinking” - an extension upon Sara Ahmed’s idea of “companion texts” (found in her 2017 book Living a Feminist Life) - and the article by Han and their companion thinker & bestie Jodie Rottle, “Companion Thinking in Improvised Musicking Practice.” Other texts mentioned in this intro include Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series novels, Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, and the work of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Don’t worry, this is not the last substantial reading list you’ll get from us (you’re welcome)!

Following the performances, Andy and Lamisse sit down for a chat along with radical poet, musicker, and political nerd Jonathan Sriranganathan about making art and making change. This is a deep and insightful discussion not to be missed, exploring some of the challenges to making bold statements and experimental works in an age of Everything Is Forever On The Internet. Picking up the themes of fumbling through artmaking in public, It’s Science And Feelings close us out with some more sonic theory-making.

Hello! Happy Sunday!

If you listened in last week, you would have heard some of the RR collective (Nat, Anna, Han & Shreya) setting out some of the central ideas and commitments that we bring into this new digital broadcast project. We reflected on some of our own experiences of learning out loud on the radio, and the formative role that Radio Reversal has played in our lives as organisers, activists, writers, artists, and academics.

If you’ve come across the live radio version of our show before, it will probably come as no surprise that we got so excited about these ideas that we decided that they deserved their own introductory mini-series. So this week, we’re back with the second episode of our three-part podcast intro series: Learning Out Loud.

We’re super excited about these next two episodes. In addition to giving us a bit more space to think through some of the central commitments and values of the Radio Reversal podcast, they also give us a chance to share with you recordings from our podcast launch party - co-hosted with the incredible Paradigm Shift - on Sunday 24th September 2023.

If you’re in so-called brisbane and you came along to our launch party, then you’ll already know that we trialed a cute live-radio-style mixtape event, bringing together a glorious line-up of scholars and poets and musicians and radio producers and friends and partners, all of whom have shaped the Radio Reversal project over the years. The conversations were so rich, and the soundscape of the event so unashamedly joyful, that we decided they needed a series overlay all to themselves.

So, in this second episode of Learning Out Loud, you’ll get to hear some of the live conversations we recorded during our launch party. Over the course of the episode, you’ll hear a conversation with our dear friend and host of the Paradigm Shift on 4zzz, Andy Paine, talking about why our long-standing broadcast radio programs are finally going digital. You’ll also hear a chat between Anna and one of the *unmatched stars* of Gogglebox, the current host of Let’s Talk - Social Justice, Kevin Yow Yeh about the space that community radio creates for critical, thoughtful, engaged and grounded work. Kevin also gives a shout out to a recent interview with the wonderful Gunggari person and National Director of the Change the Record Coalition, Maggie Munn, and particularly their just-for-the-joy-of-it podcast side project, Gay Football Friends. We are also very excited to share a gorgeous poetry performance by the extraordinary poet, writer, community organiser & politics nerd Jonathan Sriranganathan (you can find more of Jonno’s poetry via Rivermouth). As Jonno says in their set, we’ve been thinking and dreaming and organising together for so long now that it is impossible to find where each of our projects begin and others end. It remains such a privilege and a joy to be learning out loud together!And if that’s not already enough, we wrap up with a rich and playful chat about the power and possibility of community-controlled media with the unbeatable duo behind Let’s Talk - Black Politics, Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr David Singh. We talk about their experiences of Aboriginal community-controlled media, and their upcoming podcast project - Advance Black Knowing - the first season of which is due to be released in December. That season is titled Read the Play, and you’re going to want to set aside some time in your summer diaries to listen to it in full. You’ll also hear David mention a rich conversation that we had on the live version of Radio Reversal a few months ago about the idea of the present conjuncture, interpreting the crisis, and the importance of conjunctural analysis. You can dig into some more of that thinking here, and if you keep listening to the Radio Reversal Podcast, you’ll hear David’s interview in our upcoming series, Police State.

Over the course of this episode, you’ll also be hearing the joyful musical theorising of Matt Hsu, Jodie Rottle, and our very own Han Reardon-Smith, playing together as It’s Science And Feelings. This crew created a whole audio soundscape for the event, which you’ll hear in this recording, shot through with the joyful sounds of a community coming together to celebrate community controlled media and the things we can do together. It makes for the most incredible and joyful You can find some details about their other projects here, here, and here!

Phew! A huge second episode, setting the stage for much more to come! We hope there’s something here for you. And as always, we are excited to hear your reflections, thoughts, suggestions, concerns, and queries.

Let us know what you think!

In solidarity,

Anna (for the Radio Reversal Collective)

Just re-sending so the podcast is in the right place - transcript is beta version and has not been reviewed, apologies for any errors