#218 Came With Da Money

What do ballroom, Lil Kim, and Western Sydney have in common? The ruby of the scene: JUBAHLEE. The Western Sydney-based creative is joined by Ethan Lyons to talk about the arrival of her new era... RAHRAH. A child of both the ballroom and rap scenes, her presence is undeniable and she returns to R…

#217 Octavia Butler Told You This Would Happen

Paying homage to the stories written decades ago, by the mother of Afrofuturism, Octavia Butler, Race Matters' King, Tim Worton and Tristan Cornelissen chat to artists Atong Atem and Santilla Chingaipe about how their practices have been shaped by the ever expansive tenents of Afrofuturism. Togeth…

#216 A Different Kind of Seeing 2

A different kind of seeing - with Aja Monet   Grammy-nominated poet, musician and artist aja monet joins Race Matters for a conversation exploring the spiritual dimensions of poetry, the wisdom of ancestral knowledge and the unseen forces that shape how we move through the world. From the poet’s …

#215 A Different Kind of Seeing 1

A different kind of seeing - with Aja Monet  Grammy-nominated poet, musician and artist aja monet joins Race Matters for a conversation exploring the spiritual dimensions of poetry, the wisdom of ancestral knowledge and the unseen forces that shape how we move through the world. From the poet’s ey…

#214 Nodutdol

Striking against U.S. Imperialism in one territory will strike against U.S. Imperialism everywhere. When we wage and win the war against U.S. Imperialism in our homeland, that in turn positively impacts the fight for Indigenous sovereignty here. Yvonne Hong interviews Jamie Tyberg and Miyeon Jang …

#213 On carving out space for our stories

“Why be a sunflower and turn towards the sun? I myself am the sun” Ousmane Sembène ~ In this episode of Race Matters, kaapse South African sound-maker Tristan Cornelissen speaks with Safia Amadou, co-founder and co-director of Africa Film Festival Australia, about the importance of creating spac…

#212 In the wreckage of expectations

What does it mean to understand the personal and political as truly intertwined?  To know and to understand that the wins, griefs, losses, day-to-days and dreams of our lives are all shaped by political infrastructures?  And how can this knowing transform how we live our lives? On today’s show, …

#211 A Language We Learned / Basjia

“What kind of space allows people like us to fully exist? To be a Black, queer creative is to return to this question again and again, and, sometimes, to become the answer yourself.” Visionary performer, curator, founder of Pyramid, Basjia reflects on the language she discovered through movement, …

#210 A Language We Learned / Huda the Goddess

What languages do we inherit before we ever find the words for ourselves? Huda the Goddess traces the journey from the language of her childhood in Sudan and Egypt to the poetry that became her way of making sense of the world. Together, King and Huda reflect on ancestry, oral storytelling and the…

#209 After Eelam 2

after the floods, people. after the fires, people. not governments. not borders. not the soldiers  or rifles. not the state history or news or flag.  people, in masks, cooking food, sorting rubble  & burned wood, driving tonmng each other, asking are you  okay, baby? when the sky turned black,…