#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,…

#208 After Eelam 1

Knowing means understanding there are things we can never know  All knowledge is limited by positionality and governed by relationships  The world cannot be fully understood by life in human shapes because humans cannot occupy the spaces held by all other life or to see to the end of connections …

#207 Forging possibility together

Today on the show, long-time Race Matters host Sara El Youghun interviews some of our new brilliant volunteers: King, Tristan and Leya. Together, they chat through why they were drawn to joining this community, some of their favourite and most formative tracks, and what makes a place like Race Matt…

#206 Comp/Ute/Ost

What Does It Mean To Be A Person Beyond the Body? In today's convo, Race Matters' Janey Li and Sehej Kaur chat with technologist, researcher, designer and writer of A Sexual History of the Internet's Mindy Seu. A day after Mindy's lecture performance of the same title, the trio touch on the spraw…

#205 The Poetics of Chanting

What role does spirituality play in our solidarity movements? What is spirituality without accountability? Alicia Zhao traces the connection between ritual, chanting and protest, joined by Joannie Lee. We hear from artist, organiser and Buddhist practitioner Elaine Su-Hui, who reflects on how devo…

#204 All the Best & Race Matters Present: 3CRs Beyond the Bars Prison Radio

The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded ~ Angela Davis Beyond the Bars is a Prison Radio broadcast by 3CR that aired…