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 normalisation of this genocide, enabled by imperial mechanisms of censorship, and as creatives how do we grapple with our responsibilities to this while honoring the fight of Palestinian liberation?

This episode brings together four artists, organisers and truth-tellers, who have been sounding out the call of institutional collapse so we can see these structures for what they are, and resist. Each conversation offers us clarity on the humanity that is at stake and strategies to ground in resistance, alterity and refusal.

Episode credits
Sehej Kaur and Sara El-Youghan speaking with Palestinian artist Feras Shaheen, and poet Omar Sakr
Alicia Zhao with illustrator and organiser Matt Chun
Toobs Anwar in conversation with poet, educator, and arts worker Hasib Hourani
Scripting and narration by Janey Li
Supervising Producer Allison Chan
Creative direction, final mixing and additional Sound design by Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin

Above all we honor the martyrs, the fighters and the families of Palestine. We remain committed to the sacredness of all Palestinian life and liberation. We hear the Palestinian call - “We will not be silenced"

Image: Samar Abu Elouf via The Sunday Paper

Without truth, what ground is there to stand on?
We started this piece into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/02/khaled-sabsabi-says-creative-australia-decision-was-kneejerk-reaction-that-is-dismantling-his-career-ntwnfb">Creative Australia's appalling decision to rescind Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi's position</a>&nbsp;from the Venice Bienele, however over many weeks this piece evolved beyond one act of silencing. We are watching the normalisation of this genocide, enabled by imperial mechanisms of censorship, and as creatives how do we grapple with our responsibilities to this while honoring the fight of Palestinian liberation?
This episode brings together four artists, organisers and truth-tellers, who have been sounding out the call of institutional collapse so we can see these structures for what they are, and resist. Each conversation offers us clarity on the humanity that is at stake and strategies to ground in resistance, alterity and refusal.
Episode credits Sehej Kaur and Sara El-Youghan speaking with Palestinian artist Feras Shaheen, and poet Omar Sakr Alicia Zhao with illustrator and organiser Matt Chun Toobs Anwar in conversation with poet, educator, and arts worker Hasib Hourani Scripting and narration by Janey Li Supervising Producer Allison Chan Creative direction, final mixing and additional Sound design by Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin
Above all we honor the martyrs, the fighters and the families of Palestine. We remain committed to the sacredness of all Palestinian life and liberation. We hear the Palestinian call - &ldquo;We will not be silenced"
Image: Samar Abu Elouf via The Sunday Paper

Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.

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Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands series - an experimental, queer audio offering

We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.  

Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran 

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Race Matters is an anti-racist&nbsp;show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.
Listen back to <a href="https://www.fbi.radio/programs/race-matters">all our episodes on fbi.radio</a> including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/">instagram</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/race-matters-sol-dar-ty-synd">Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series</a> - sharing across airwaves and borders and our&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/racematters_liquid-homelands">Liquid Homelands</a> series - an experimental, queer audio offering
We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran&nbsp;
Race Matters is made possible thanks to the&nbsp;<a href="https://cbf.org.au/">Community Broadcasting Foundation</a>

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