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The Great Race Debate
Welcome to our final episode of Read the Play! This week, Chelsea & David bring together a whole bunch of content from the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Thory and Practice, offering us some final words on race, resistance, refusal and joy.
To start, you’ll hear the wonderful Vernon Ah Kee & Ghassan Hage speaking to the “affective” dimensions of anti-racist activism, and whether it is either ethical or possible to “be joyful at a time when racial violence has once again reached genocidal proportions.”
From there, we move into an edited recording of presentations made as part of The Great Race Debate: a joyful, satirical, incisive collection of the best worst takes on racism in the colony. This episode is a reminder that sometimes you just have to laugh in the face of the absurdity of race in the colony; and that it is in these moments of coming together and refusing the logics of racism that we find sites of solidarity and shared struggle to fuel the fight ahead.
And finally, we end the series with the sheer Black Joy of the 2025 Great Race Debate, hosted in Magan-djin earlier this year. In a series of short, brilliant presentations we hear from Kevin Yow Yeh, Huda the Goddess, Nasser Mashini, Ruby Wharton, Sarah Schwartz and David Singh, all of whom offer their “best worst takes” on race in the colony. In returning to an event that ruffled more than a few feathers, we remember that Black Joy is always a threat to the colony, and that finding spaces to laugh at the absurdity of racism is vital to sustaining communities that can keep on waging the war on race in this place.
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 to our final episode of Read the Play! This week, Chelsea & David bring together a whole bunch of content from the 2025 National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Thory and Practice, offering us some final words on race, resistance, refusal and joy.
To start, you’ll hear the wonderful Vernon Ah Kee & Ghassan Hage speaking to the “affective” dimensions of anti-racist activism, and whether it is either ethical or possible to “be joyful at a time when racial violence has once again reached genocidal proportions.”
From there, we move into an edited recording of presentations made as part of The Great Race Debate: a joyful, satirical, incisive collection of the best worst takes on racism in the colony. This episode is a reminder that sometimes you just have to laugh in the face of the absurdity of race in the colony; and that it is in these moments of coming together and refusing the logics of racism that we find sites of solidarity and shared struggle to fuel the fight ahead.
And finally, we end the series with the sheer Black Joy of the 2025 Great Race Debate, hosted in Magan-djin earlier this year. In a series of short, brilliant presentations we hear from Kevin Yow Yeh, Huda the Goddess, Nasser Mashini, Ruby Wharton, Sarah Schwartz and David Singh, all of whom offer their “best worst takes” on race in the colony. In returning to an event that ruffled more than a few feathers, we remember that Black Joy is always a threat to the colony, and that finding spaces to laugh at the absurdity of racism is vital to sustaining communities that can keep on waging the war on race in this place.
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.