Sehej, Leya and Yvonne hop into the studio today to chat about the history of looksmaxxing as an inherited tradition for all oppressed people.

Inspired by texts on the 'Politics of Being Ugly', digressions include Jia Tolentino's 'The Age of Instagram Face', the distinctions between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and looksmaxxing as self-surveillance for brown Women of Colour.

This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah.

cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria

Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise this is different for all experiences of gender, culture and bodies.

Sehej, Leya and Yvonne hop into the studio today to chat about the history of looksmaxxing as an inherited tradition for all oppressed people.
Inspired by texts on the 'Politics of Being Ugly', digressions include Jia Tolentino's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face">'The Age of Instagram Face'</a>, the distinctions between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and looksmaxxing as self-surveillance for brown Women of Colour.
This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah.
cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria
Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise this is different for all experiences of gender, culture and bodies.

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.

Listen back to all our episodes on fbi.radio including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our instagram 

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 

Race Matters is made possible thanks to the Community Broadcasting Foundation

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>

Conversations about the values and complexities of race, culture, identity

Race Matters

Beyond representation. Anti-racist radio with in-depth interviews and unique story telling spanning arts, music, global politics, local events + more

Beyond representation. Anti-racist radio with in-depth interviews and unique story telling spanning arts, music, global politics, local events + more

#201 They're Finally Looksmaxxing With the Rest Of Us

This episode is a love letter to everyone mothering on stolen land, in displaced bodies, in the precarity of modernity. It is a reminder that queer and Indigenous ways of childrearing and matrilineal care are often similar practices. One and a half years into raising a child and a lifetime into raising themselves in community, executive producer Prinita Thevarajah collages conversations with Vanessa Marian Varghese, Midori Mukai and Ella Noah Bancroft to reveal the ultimate truth: that the violence of modernity world was built off womb envy, and that carework is crucial to survive fascism.

Vanessa Marian Varghese is a writer, movement director and community builder exploring movement, identity and contemporary culture through film, live performance and immersive experiences

Midori Mukai is a Tkaronto/Toronto based artist and arts facilitator — her creative practice explores ceramics and fine craft. Informed by ancestry, her work highlights traditional approaches off-centre from the Western lens

Ella Noah Bancroft is a descendent of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation and has bloodlines to England, Poland and Scotland. Australian born artist, storyteller, mentor and founder of “The Returning”. Ella Noah Bancroft is a pioneer for The Decolonisation movement. Through her writing and work Ella has been promoting re-wilding, the rise of the female energy, as way back to deep relationship nature and decolonizing of personal, social and ecological well-being for 10 years.She is widely respected amongst her community and believes in local communities with local economies as a way to find hope for the health of our planet and people.

For more on The Returning visit: https://www.thereturning.com.au/

This episode is a love letter to everyone mothering on stolen land, in displaced bodies, in the precarity of modernity. It is a reminder that queer and Indigenous ways of childrearing and matrilineal care are often similar practices. One and a half years into raising a child and a lifetime into raising themselves in community, executive producer Prinita Thevarajah collages conversations with Vanessa Marian Varghese, Midori Mukai and Ella Noah Bancroft to reveal the ultimate truth: that the violence of modernity world was built off womb envy, and that carework is crucial to survive fascism.
Vanessa Marian Varghese is a writer, movement director and community builder exploring movement, identity and contemporary culture through film, live performance and immersive experiences
Midori Mukai is a Tkaronto/Toronto based artist and arts facilitator &mdash; her creative practice explores ceramics and fine craft. Informed by ancestry, her work highlights traditional approaches off-centre from the Western lens Ella Noah Bancroft is a descendent of the peoples of the Bundjalung nation and has bloodlines to England, Poland and Scotland. Australian born artist, storyteller, mentor and founder of &ldquo;The Returning&rdquo;. Ella Noah Bancroft is a pioneer for The Decolonisation movement. Through her writing and work Ella has been promoting re-wilding, the rise of the female energy, as way back to deep relationship nature and decolonizing of personal, social and ecological well-being for 10 years.She is widely respected amongst her community and believes in local communities with local economies as a way to find hope for the health of our planet and people.
For more on The Returning visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thereturning.com.au/">https://www.thereturning.com.au/</a>

#200 Mothering Thru Fascism

For this special episode of Race Matters, we are joined by Boe Spearim from Frontier War Stories, Gamilaraay and Kooma activisit and Dad who has been archiving so called Australiaʼs first wars since 2020. Frontier War Stories is a podcast that details across the continent, the wars waged by the colonising British, the massacres and horific dehumanisation that was used as a strategy of genocide by the settling empire and the profoundly dedicated resistance held by Aboriginal warriors.

Joined by King, a Ghanian/Wiradjuri creative and newest member of the RM team, these episode dives deeper into the lore of Pemuwluy and Dundali. Pemulwuy, being the first resistance fighter against the colony, organising and leading mob to retaliate against the genocidal regime. Dundali, being the last publicly hung warrior, a symbol of the colonisers to others considering resistance.

Over a weekend that memorialises one version of history that seemingly erases the Truth about what happened on this land, this episode reminds us of the ways colonising nation states utilise propaganda and dehumanise resistance.

With a special thanks to Clothing the Gap for sponsoring this episode. We are so grateful to be joined by Boe as we attempt to subvert the revisionist history of so called Australia.

 

Audio including sound bites of Malabar Beach, Parramatta and Magandjin CBD

Marcia Langton on Pemulwuy for the ABC
Uncle Coco at the 2020 Dundali Remembrance Day in Magandjin
Pray by DRMNGNOW

For this special episode of Race Matters, we are joined by Boe Spearim from Frontier War Stories, Gamilaraay and Kooma activisit and Dad who has been archiving so called Australiaʼs first wars since 2020. Frontier War Stories is a podcast that details across the continent, the wars waged by the colonising British, the massacres and horific dehumanisation that was used as a strategy of genocide by the settling empire and the profoundly dedicated resistance held by Aboriginal warriors.
Joined by King, a Ghanian/Wiradjuri creative and newest member of the RM team, these episode dives deeper into the lore of Pemuwluy and Dundali. Pemulwuy, being the first resistance fighter against the colony, organising and leading mob to retaliate against the genocidal regime. Dundali, being the last publicly hung warrior, a symbol of the colonisers to others considering resistance.
Over a weekend that memorialises one version of history that seemingly erases the Truth about what happened on this land, this episode reminds us of the ways colonising nation states utilise propaganda and dehumanise resistance.
With a special thanks to Clothing the Gap for sponsoring this episode. We are so grateful to be joined by Boe as we attempt to subvert the revisionist history of so called Australia.
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Audio including sound bites of Malabar Beach, Parramatta and Magandjin CBD
Marcia Langton on Pemulwuy for the ABC Uncle Coco at the 2020 Dundali Remembrance Day in Magandjin Pray by DRMNGNOW

#198 Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars

We are bound by the same chains, therefore we must forge the same key. Two stories of interconnected struggles and how we can forge the tools towards freedom. 

Day Soriano chats to Sunday of Philippines liberation movement Anakbayan on yearning itself can be a weapon, and that until the diaspora can return, they must continue to fight the struggle of the people no matter where they are. Then, Virginia Barahona with Yung Prodigy cofounder Maia Ihemeje on the ripple effects of parental/kinship incarceration and how their work with young people is guiding us towards a more free and connected world from the ground up. 

𖡼 Join YP and their freedom on the line campaign to make prison calls free. 

𖡼 Follow Anakbayan Syd for more on their movement building

𖡼 Stay updated with the Thousand Madleens flotilla getting aid to occupied Gaza, and their fundraiser in April 

SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.

 

𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.

𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi ⁠and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo

𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong

𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao

𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran ⁠

𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Thevarajah

𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney

We are bound by the same chains, therefore we must forge the same key.&nbsp;Two stories of interconnected struggles and how we can forge the tools towards freedom.&nbsp;
Day Soriano chats to Sunday of Philippines liberation movement Anakbayan on yearning itself can be a weapon, and that until the diaspora can return, they must continue to fight the struggle of the people no matter where they are. Then, Virginia Barahona with&nbsp;<a href="https://yungprodigy.org/">Yung Prodigy</a>&nbsp;cofounder Maia Ihemeje on the ripple effects of parental/kinship incarceration and how their work with young people is guiding us towards a more free and connected world from the ground up.&nbsp;
𖡼 Join YP and their&nbsp;<a href="https://yungprodigy.org/campaigns">freedom on the line campaign</a>&nbsp;to make prison calls free.&nbsp;
𖡼 Follow&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/anakbayan.sydney/">Anakbayan Syd</a>&nbsp;for more on their movement building
𖡼 Stay updated with the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thousand.madleens.australia/">Thousand Madleens flotilla</a>&nbsp;getting aid to occupied Gaza, and their fundraiser in April&nbsp;
SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.
&nbsp;
𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.
𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi ⁠and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo
𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong
𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao
𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran ⁠
𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Thevarajah
𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney

#201 They're Finally Looksmaxxing With the Rest Of Us

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