#179 Find Me at the Jaffa Gate

"... and in truth it is a story that is not mine nor hers; I am searching for the shape of what is ours." Hear  Sara and Joannie are in conversation with Palestinian writer and academic Micaela Sahhar. Together, they discuss Micaela’s gorgeous new memoir,  'Find Me At The Jaffa Gate,’ which aims t…

#178 A Cacophony of ancestors

How do we understand hope as something within ourselves, and not as a far off horizon? A conversation with anti-oppressive therapist and educator Leah Manaema Avene on their expansive practice rooted in abolition, love, repair and the strategies to transform harmful power dynamics in bodies, relat…

#177 77 Years of Resistance

"You have to speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" What does it mean to commemorate Nakba, not as a singular historical act, but as a way to honour the resistance that has continued long before October 7th?  A conversation with Dana Kafina from 3ain Radio and Toobs Anwar. This episode was …

#176 Unsettling Zionist Funding in the arts

Without truth, what ground is there to stand on? We started this piece into Creative Australia's appalling decision to rescind Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi's position from the Venice Bienele, however over many weeks this piece evolved beyond one act of silencing. We are watching the normalisatio…

#175 To be the songline that outlives the corroded disk

We’re not just data, we are storytellers. Sometimes, the most radical thing we can do is speak, loudly and deliberately, into futures we get to shape ourselves. Ethan and Janey are joined by Nyungar technologist and futurist Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker to traverse the world of machine tech and human a…

#174 Kanaky Rising

“We only have wood and stone to fight with to preserve our life” The words of young activists from Kanaky (so-called New Caledonia) who are engaged in fights to reclaim their land from French occupation, fighting for life and independence. Ethan and Shareeka speak to Roscoe, a special rapporteur f…

#173 Strength in prayer, in spirit

"We're holding hope for other people and each other, and that's what the peer model is." Content Note: this episode contains mentions of suicidality.  Queer Muslim baddie takeover ~ in dedication to Imam Muhsin Hendricks - Allah Yerahmo. The intersections of queerness, religion, and ethnic identi…

#172 A menace to our enemies

Can writing be a political practice? How do you write in a way that serves liberation, the making of better worlds?  Today Samantha and Bipasha are in conversation with Fabliha Yeaqub, a queer Bangladeshi writer, artist and community organiser based in so-called New York. We are talking about her …

#171 The Ruby of Western Sydney

It takes a femme queen.  Movement as liberation, and the spirituality of performance. Join Ethan Lyons and Tim Worton in deep kiki with the Ruby of Western Sydney, vogue diva from the House of Silky, Jubahlee talking the love and kinship within the ballroom scene. This episode was produced and ho…

#170 Redfern Renaissance

“I’m a child of the revolution”  Theatre as protest, storytelling as weapon. Fifty two years since the inception of Black Theatre - the subversive art form that spoke back to the colony and incited the beginning of community controlled services; resonates to this day. We’re so honoured to be speak…