This week, we move beyond the university to engage with the diverse ways that communities are organising themselves in response to the persistent violence of racism, colonialism, and capitalism in this moment. Through a series of short excerpts from broader conversations with Sam Watson Junior, Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Dr. Crystal McKinnon, Dr. Jordy Silverstein, Dr. Lina Koleilat and Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chelsea & David ask what it will take to build solidarity movements that can confront the scale of the fight ahead. 

Reading list

Nabulsi, Jamal. ‘“To Stop the Earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation’. Antipode 56, no. 1 (2024): 187–205.

Radio Reversal podcast. Episode 6: Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity. n.d. https://www.radioreversal.org/justice-for-palestine-magandjin-podcast-44b/.

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Theory of Water. Haymarket Books, 2025.

McKinnon, Crystal. ‘Enduring Indigeneity and Solidarity in Response to Australia’s Carceral Colonialism’. Biography (Honolulu, United States) 43, no. 4 (2020): 691–704.

Flynn, Eugenia, Jordana Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, et al. ‘The QUT Symposium: Holding the Line against Rising Racism’. Overland Literary Journal, 31 January 2025. https://overland.org.au/2025/01/the-qut-symposium-holding-the-line-against-rising-racism/.

Credits

Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country’s Let’s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute’s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson.

Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of ‘Live, Laugh, Decolonise’ and ‘Eat the World’  

Production & Sound Design: BlakCast Productions

Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm.

This podcast was supported (partially) by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Projects funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.

This week, we move beyond the university to engage with the diverse ways that communities are organising themselves in response to the persistent violence of racism, colonialism, and capitalism in this moment. Through a series of short excerpts from broader conversations with Sam Watson Junior, Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Dr. Crystal McKinnon, Dr. Jordy Silverstein, Dr. Lina Koleilat and Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Chelsea &amp; David ask what it will take to build solidarity movements that can confront the scale of the fight ahead.&nbsp;
Reading list
Nabulsi, Jamal. &lsquo;&ldquo;To Stop the Earthquake&rdquo;: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation&rsquo;. Antipode 56, no. 1 (2024): 187&ndash;205.
Radio Reversal podcast. Episode 6: Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity. n.d. <a href="https://www.radioreversal.org/justice-for-palestine-magandjin-podcast-44b/.">https://www.radioreversal.org/justice-for-palestine-magandjin-podcast-44b/.</a>
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.&nbsp;
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Theory of Water. Haymarket Books, 2025.
McKinnon, Crystal. &lsquo;Enduring Indigeneity and Solidarity in Response to Australia&rsquo;s Carceral Colonialism&rsquo;. Biography (Honolulu, United States) 43, no. 4 (2020): 691&ndash;704.
Flynn, Eugenia, Jordana Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, et al. &lsquo;The QUT Symposium: Holding the Line against Rising Racism&rsquo;. Overland Literary Journal, 31 January 2025. <a href="https://overland.org.au/2025/01/the-qut-symposium-holding-the-line-against-rising-racism/.">https://overland.org.au/2025/01/the-qut-symposium-holding-the-line-against-rising-racism/.</a>
Credits
Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country&rsquo;s Let&rsquo;s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute&rsquo;s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson.
Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu&rsquo;s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of &lsquo;Live, Laugh, Decolonise&rsquo; and &lsquo;Eat the World&rsquo; &nbsp;
Production &amp; Sound Design: BlakCast Productions
Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm.
This podcast was supported&nbsp;(partially) by the Australian Government through the&nbsp;Australian Research Council's&nbsp;Discovery Indigenous Projects&nbsp;funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the&nbsp;Australian Government&nbsp;or Australian Research Council.

Join your favourite “nerds on the frontline” Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory. 

Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea & David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to “read the play” in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty. 

Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea & David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.

Join your favourite &ldquo;nerds on the frontline&rdquo; Professor Chelsea Watego &amp; Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory.&nbsp;
Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea &amp; David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to &ldquo;read the play&rdquo; in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty.&nbsp;
Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea &amp; David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.

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