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Playlist by Race MattersRace 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…Follow the podcast:
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#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, …
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#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…
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#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,…
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#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 …
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#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…
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#203 Wall Street, Boundary Street: Saul Williams & DRMNGOW on Empire, Music and Liberation
Poet, musician and cultural visionary Saul Williams joins Yorta Yorta artist, writer and activist Neil Morris for a conversation that traces the colonial logics hidden in plain sight. From Wall Street to Boundary Street, they unpack how empire is built through naming, branding, borders and memory, …
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#202 Building new worlds on the grave of AI
“Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient.” - Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood. The dawn of generative AI may seem like a whole new age - but in reality, it is part of an ancient history. Today on the show, Sara El Youghun, Joannie Lee, Janey Li a…
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