The Rap

Areej is joined by writer and Noongar woman Claire G. Coleman to discuss her essay for the Koorie Heritage Trust titled “COVID and Colonialism” as part of the KHT Voices series.

Plus, Dr. Victor Sojo Monzon, a lecturer and research fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership, Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, joins Areej on the line to chat about his piece in Pursuit; “The Toxic Spread of COVID-19 Racism”.

More reading:

The Toxic Spread of COVID-19 Racism - Dr. Victor Sojo Monzon

KHT Voices Project from Koorie Heritage Trust.

Terra Nullius from Claire G Coleman COVID and Colonialism

Creative Director of YIRRAMBOI festival and proud Yalukit-willam woman, Caroline Martin, talks to Areej about the commissions for the 2021 YIRRAMBOI festival closing and the launch of their Blak Bloggers Project.

Plus, local artist, musician and DJ, Hamishi discusses the release of his latest graphic novel, Airport Love Theme, COVID-19 rent strikes as well as dropping a guest DJ mix.

More Info:

Official YIRRAMBOI Website

Blak Bloggers Project

Airport Love Theme | Book Works UK

Airport Love Theme | Idea Books

Aus Rent Strike Site

COVID-19 Rent Strike Petition

Aboriginal lawyer descended from the Larrakia people of Darwin and legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, Shaleena Musk discusses with Areej why reducing the amount detainees within confined spaces at immigration and detention facilities lowers the risk that such institutions become epicentres in the midst of an outbreak and the new policing powers brought in due to Covid-19.

Plus, Sims from Sydney community radio station, Afrika Connexions chats to Areej about the history of the station as well as dropping a guest mix!

Director of the Migrant Workers Centre, Matt Kunkel, joins Areej to discuss the urgent need for migrant workers to be given access both healthcare and welfare support during the current pandemic and what can be done to solve this issue.

Also, Wergaia / Wemba Wemba woman and folk /indie singer, Alice Skye, phones up to have a nice chat plus share some of her favourite tracks.

Migrant Workers Centre Website

Wondering how to connect with others during the unique time of a Pandemic?  This week, Areej Nur is joined by racial and economic justice campaign Roj Ahmedi, to talk about everything from good TV to watch, how to organise and build communities in a crisis and the VIC police taskforce being activated around covid-19.

Also on the line with Areej is local DJ,event curator and radio broadcaster MzRizk for a check in on what they've been working on while practicing social distancing.

Turkish-Australian writer and scholar, Eda Günaydin phones in to talk about her latest piece, Your Life’s Work, an examination about how our lives have turned into our work. The piece, published on Lifted Brow, is an important read for creative people.
Also, Indigenous pop duo, The Merindas, join Areej in the studio to play some of their songs plus discuss their upcoming performance at the Brunswick Music Festival and their debut album, We Sing Until Sunrise (Ngaangk Nookertiny Ngala Warangka)

Read "Your Life's Work" | Lifted Brow

We Sing Until Sunrise | Spotify

This week on The Rap, Areej discusses the lack of of black, brown and femme voices editing and and contributing to Wikipedia with Caroline Phillips (Secretary of Women's Art Register) ahead of the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Melbourne, Australia event.

She's also joined by London-based artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist and broadcaster Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) who is in town for her lecture-performance 'Afrofuturism & Gesamtkunstwerk' at LOOP bar in the CBD.

Gunnai-Kurnai & Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe joins Areej for a conversation about Pay the Rent - a campaign and movement established to seek justice and reparations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.

On this episode, Areej is joined by Mimo Mukii, filmmaker and creator of I SEE YOU - a platform established in Melbourne, Australia to discuss and celebrate cinema from Africa and the diaspora - about their regular screenings and the film Faat Kiné. Also, community organiser and campaigner Ella Shi discusses her piece in Overland Literary Journal on the racialisation of the discourse surrounding the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

On this episode of The Rap, Areej is joined by Kamilaroi astrophysics student Krystal De Napoli to talk about her research into Indigenous astronomy. Also, Canadian drag artist Weird Alice Yankadic discusses their practice and show as part of the Midsumma Festival in Melbourne, Australia.