Race Matters FBi Radio

Content note: this episode contains mention of family violence, incarceration, houselessness, and visceral descriptions of some memories. It's not described in detail but please go gently if these will affect you. 

Samantha Haran and Bipasha Roy chat to Gomeroi writer, curator and scholar Dr Amy Thunig. A rich chat on memoir as a politcal act amid erasure, dismantling white supremacy in academia, finding wisdom by attuning to ancestral practices. 

Catch Amy at the Sydney Writers Festival from May 20 spanning their curatorial and literary output across a few events, for more details head to the Sydney Writers Festival website. 
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A spirit of protest and deep sensitivity echoes in this episode with two staunch First Nations activists and artists Jazz Money & Thea Anamara Perkins. Honored to have FBi broadcaster, writer and curator Levent Can Kaya take over Race Matters with an incisive and luminous chat. Hear Lev, Thea and Jazz on personal archives and joyous collective imagination as antidotes to colonial violence; and the politics of art-making as institutions try to stifle our resistance. 

Image: from Atherreyurre, by Thea Anamara Perkins
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Alicia Zhao and Joannie Lee are joined by artist, Dharma practitioner and co-founder of the Inner Fields collective - Elaine Su-Hui. Together they share a reflective chat on their relationships with Buddhism, what it is to come to a politicised reclamation of spirituality, decolonise Western appropriations of faith, and turn towards a practice that doesn't bypass injustice - but faces it with courage and loving action.  
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This week the Race Matters team settle in to have a deep chat about love. What is the role of love when we are witnessing the horrors, violence and apathy of the genocide of Palestinian people and the rise of facism? Join Alicia Zhao, Toobs Anwar and Samantha Haran unpack the politics of love and what it means to practice radical and political love in our everyday life.

Featuring excerpts from Saul Williams & James Baldwin. 
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how can we gather in non-hierarchical ways, form solidarities, resist shallow representation and form cultures of genuine reciprocity? ⁠


Upending the colonial building of artshouse during Dalit History Month, ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala (‘from the depths of one’s being’) brings together local and international artists to examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality through contemporary expression. Envisioned by Dalit curator-artist Vishal Kumaraswamy morphing conventional expectations through an anti-caste politics of curation. Hear Vishal in dialogue with artists Elyas Alavi & Jagath Dheerasekara making these ideas come to life. 


This episode was produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, and came together through the dedicated collaborative efforts of Vishal Kumaraswamy, Louana Sainsbury, Varsha Ramesh & Nithya Nagarajan. 
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MIGRANT SEX WORKER OF COLOUR DIARIES: WE SPEAK CLEARLY


〰️ this episode is in loving memory of dear friend and colleague, Venus ⁠〰️

A special episode this week as we delve into the second offering of our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries produced by Jasmine Raat-Ki-Raani. An intimate, extended dialogue with Natasha tracing her life from Brazil to so-called a̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶. Hear stories of navigating the workforce as an immigrant, joining the s^x industry and learning the value of labour, refusal, connection and perseverance. 

Listen back to the first episode of the series to learn more, and consider making a solidarity donation via BSB: 013040 & Account: 464120537


Series concept, produced and edited - Jasmine Raat Ki Raani | Series artwork - Katy Cao | Final mixing & sound design - Shareeka Helaluddin 

This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation. 
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