What is it to talk about race and racism in this country? What is really at stake for racially marginalised people to speak to the truths of injustice? For a lot of People of Colour and First Nations peoples, it can be really hard to reconcile that these are not far-off extreme things occurring in only political debate or right-wing rhetoric. It can be in our closest and intimate relationships, and our work places. So these conversations are charged with emotion and knowing that to speak to injustice can be at the loss of a friendship, a partner, a job, a social structure you once thought was safe and familiar. 

This week, we were joined by award-winning journalist, co-founder and co-chair of Media Diversity Australia  - Antoinette Lattouf. She has just released a book titled How to Lose Friends and Influence White People. It reads as a sort of guidebook, speaking to race relations in this country and the ways in which doing anti-racist and advocacy work has shifted her relationships and livelihood. Tanya Ali spoke to her ahead of her two appearances at Sydney Writers Festival this week. 

This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali, with special guest Antoinette Lattouf. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.  

What is it to talk about race and racism in this country? What is really at stake for racially marginalised people to speak to the truths of injustice? For a lot of People of Colour and First Nations peoples, it can be really hard to reconcile that these are not far-off extreme things occurring in only political debate or right-wing rhetoric. It can be in our closest and intimate relationships, and our work places. So these conversations are charged with emotion and knowing that to speak to injustice can be at the loss of a friendship, a partner, a job, a social structure you once thought was safe and familiar.&nbsp;
This week, we were joined by award-winning journalist, co-founder and co-chair of <a href="https://www.mediadiversityaustralia.org/">Media Diversity Australia</a>&nbsp; - Antoinette Lattouf. She has just released a book titled How to Lose Friends and Influence White People. It reads as a sort of guidebook, speaking to race relations in this country and the ways in which doing anti-racist and advocacy work has shifted her relationships and livelihood. Tanya Ali spoke to her ahead of her two appearances at <a href="https://www.swf.org.au/writers/antoinette-lattouf/">Sydney Writers Festival</a> this week.&nbsp;
This episode was hosted by Tanya Ali, with special guest Antoinette Lattouf. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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>

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