What would it mean to consider the radical potential of love, empathy, and pleasure— as an antidote to oppression and disconnection? 

Mimi Zhu doesn't want to romanticise love. Their debut title "Be Not Afraid of Love" is devoted to answering this, sharing in a way that is intimate and heart-tugging. Our conversation with them maps the pain and violence that can stop us from knowing how to enact and receive love, intimacy, queer kinship, and how loving action can be a tool for social change. 

Mimi references some works of radical Black feminist and First Nations thinkers including bell hooks and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 

What would it mean to consider the radical potential of love, empathy, and pleasure— as an antidote to oppression and disconnection? <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mimizhuxiyuan/"></a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mimizhuxiyuan/">Mimi Zhu</a> doesn't want to romanticise love. Their debut title "Be Not Afraid of Love" is devoted to answering this, sharing in a way that is intimate and heart-tugging. Our conversation with them maps the pain and violence that can stop us from knowing how to enact and receive love, intimacy, queer kinship, and how loving action can be a tool for social change. 
Mimi references some works of radical Black feminist and First Nations thinkers including bell hooks and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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

Episode 130: To Love, Courageously (with Mimi Zhu)

We know that what we do today is intiamtely connected with what has been done before. 

Samantha Haran and Tim Worton reflect as kinfolk on their journey with Race Matters, and expanding into their queerness.

They pay tribute to the episodes and producers that drew them into community, and challenged them into evolving and unfurling their embodiment of queerness in so called Australia, as two young queer people of colour. With reverence and gratitude to those who created space for us here: Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, Rhyan Clapham, Georgia Mokak & Shareeka Helaluddin. 

We know that what we do today is intiamtely connected with what has been done before.&nbsp;
Samantha Haran and Tim Worton reflect as kinfolk on their journey with Race Matters, and expanding into their queerness.
They pay tribute to the episodes and producers that drew them into community, and challenged them into evolving and unfurling their embodiment of queerness in so called Australia, as two young queer people of colour. With reverence and gratitude to those who created space for us here: Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, Rhyan Clapham, Georgia Mokak &amp; Shareeka Helaluddin.&nbsp;

#193 To those who came before us

Sehej Kaur and Wen Pei Low share a tender and vulnerable episode about their friendship and celebrate queer and crip kinship together.

They share stories of navigating sterile, western medical systems and how they found and held each other through it all. They dream of crip futures that move beyond simply surviving and toward thriving.

Sehej reads a poem by Dom Kelly that is titled “an elegy for a crip friend (thank you alice). You can find it here

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHzspHEYGq/?img_index=4

You can find Wen Pei on instagram @_waterclover.

This podcast was edited by Prinita Thevarajah.

Sehej Kaur and Wen Pei Low share a tender and vulnerable episode about their friendship and celebrate queer and crip kinship together.
They share stories of navigating sterile, western medical systems and how they found and held each other through it all. They dream of crip futures that move beyond simply surviving and toward thriving.
Sehej reads a poem by Dom Kelly that is titled &ldquo;an elegy for a crip friend (thank you alice). You can find it here
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHzspHEYGq/?img_index=4">https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHzspHEYGq/?img_index=4</a>
You can find Wen Pei on instagram @_waterclover.
This podcast was edited by Prinita Thevarajah.

#192 On Queer and Crip Kinship 

"We have been doing this because we love our people”

Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghun welcome Moh, a community builder and organiser from Myanmar to talk about her peoples’ fight for freedom, self-determination and justice from brutal military imperialism. Together they talk about taking pride in our solidarity and what it takes to keep our collective movement for liberation alive and interconnected. We honour the people fighting on the ground in Myanmar and look to them to hold steadfast here in this colony. 

The people of Myanmar will not be forgotten. You can check out more info here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/all-in-one-piece-movement-sydn/4291906044463956

Many thanks to Janey Li for producing this episode and our beloved Executive Producer, Shareeka Helaluddin for all her support. Podcast mixed by Janey Li. 

"We have been doing this because we love our people&rdquo; Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghun welcome Moh, a community builder and organiser from Myanmar to talk about her peoples&rsquo; fight for freedom, self-determination and justice from brutal military imperialism. Together they talk about taking pride in our solidarity and what it takes to keep our collective movement for liberation alive and interconnected. We honour the people fighting on the ground in Myanmar and look to them to hold steadfast here in this colony. The people of Myanmar will not be forgotten. You can check out more info here:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/s/all-in-one-piece-movement-sydn/4291906044463956">https://www.facebook.com/events/s/all-in-one-piece-movement-sydn/4291906044463956</a>
Many thanks to Janey Li for producing this episode and our beloved Executive Producer, Shareeka Helaluddin for all her support. Podcast mixed by Janey Li.&nbsp;

Episode 130: To Love, Courageously (with Mimi Zhu)

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