Race Matters

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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

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Episodes

Episode 116: History, Unwoven: The Complex Threads of a Sri Lankan Uprising

Content note for mention of violence and genocide. We turn towards Sri Lanka, and the ongoing economic and humanitarian crisis unfolding right now. In a piece produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, she speaks to people on the ground in Sri Lanka and its diaspora to unravel the very complex and oft-unknown histories that led to the critical point, the shadow of colonialism that still impacts, what the diaspora should be mindful of and what a meaningful, people-centred accountable future of Sri Lanka co...

Aug 01, 2022•42 min

Beyond Borders Part Three: Conversations Exploring Blackness Across Borders by Binta Yade

Story-telling and deeply-rooted creativity flows well into today’s episode, with the third instalment of the Beyond Borders series produced by artist Binta Yade. In this episode, Binta explores story-telling through the art practices of film, theatre, photography and dance - both, the long lineages these forms have within black diasporic experiences – whilst continuing to radically evolve, and be a a reclamation and process of self-determination. You’re going to hear from screen writer and radio...

Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min

Episode 115: From Gadigal to Gaza, Until We Are All Free (with Amal Naser and Mell Chun)

Palestine has long been described as a ‘litmus test’ where solidarity with Palestine is not just about our individual choices, but also about our collective ability. There’s the reality of a global narrative - that has legitimated oppression for many decades. This week we were honoured to speak to third-generation Palestinian refugee and organiser Amal Naser , and independent journalist and audio editor for the The Sunday Paper , Mell Chun. Together they delved into a rich and detailed conversat...

Jul 18, 2022•44 min

Episode 114: A NAIDOC Special

Content Note: some of these excerpts contain mention of trauma, impacts of racist and colonial violence, and conversations on mental health challenges. Today on the show we’re tracing the long lines of conversations we’ve had with First Nations guests over the last little while, to amplify the plurality of their stories. You'll hear from a compilation of First Nations voices speaking to their experiences to go beyond any homogeneous and typical storytelling including Tasman Keith, Nayuka Gorrie,...

Jul 12, 2022•54 min

Episode 113: Building Towards Radical and Just Futures (with Yassmin Abdel-Magied)

Yassmin Abdel-Magied : she’s someone who seemingly needs no introduction. A Sudanese-Australian writer and advocate, chastised by mainstream Australian media for speaking truth to inequity and violent systems of oppression. Whether through literary essays, educational tik toks or live TV, Yassmin is an assured and intelligent voice, analysing society’s systemic challenges, reframing established narratives and making complex ideas accessible to all. Her new collection of essays, Talking About a R...

Jul 04, 2022•39 min

Beyond Borders Part Two: Conversations Exploring Blackness Across Borders by Binta Yade

Kojey Radical , Blessed and Chanel Loren - they’re all creatives who have established their music careers not only in spite of the racial injustices that proliferate in the industry, but unapologetically find ways to express and redefine their cultural outputs. In the second episode of the Beyond Borders series by Binta Yade , they all shared their experiences to unpack what it is to perceive and create amid the differences between the music industry here and in the UK. We’ll hear them speak abo...

Jun 14, 2022•42 min

Episode 112: The Practice and Politics of Food in the Chinese Diaspora (With Sim Cheuanghane)

Sim Cheuanghane is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and DJ who recently wrote an anthropology thesis entitled " Food as Practice: Navigations of Chinese Diasporic Identity Through Food Making and Sharing ". This work explores the Chinese diaspora and the role of food in the process of re-connecting and re-constructing individual and collective identities and forging solidarity. Through their work, we learn how food takes on meaning beyond nourishment — to signify movement, pleasure, connectio...

Jun 06, 2022•34 min

Episode 111: Through the Depths of Sound and Friendship (with Divide and Dissolve)

Ahead of their performance as part of Sydney's Vivid Festival, we spoke to multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed - she’s one half of doom metal band Divide and Dissolve . The band have long held a politic of destroying and dismantling the colonial state, creating sounds that reverberate with this power and spirit. Sara chatted to Takiaya about all this, the depths of their friendship and love for one another, and how this shaped their sound. Divide and Dissolve will be performing at Carriageworks f...

Jun 02, 2022•30 min

Episode 110: Ate Lovia, An Act of Remembering (with Happy Feraran)

Ate Lovia is a new Filipino-Australian theatre piece written by Jordan Shea presented by Red Line Productions . Set in the 90s, the story follows the resilience of family, and is an incisive examination of our country’s deep-rooted racism, amid a conservative government and its anti-immigrant sentiment. In a piece guest-produced by Eric Jiang, we hear from improviser and playwright Happy Feraren about her work as the translator and community consultant for the play, and how it serves as an act o...

May 30, 2022•29 min

Episode 109: A Legacy of Resistance (with Anakbayan Sydney)

Today on the show we are joined by Genesis and Carielyn, two organisers part of Anakbayan Sydney , a national democratic movement of Filipino youth.You’ll hear them speak to the current political climate and dangers in the Philippines, how it got to this, what they feel the diaspora’s responsibilities are, and the dissonance of talking to parents and elders who have been swayed by propaganda and disinformation. They also spoke about preserving story and memory, and the ways in which a collective...

May 23, 2022•27 min

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