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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

  1. 2d ago

    #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 Matters brilliant & special 3 Shout out to our other new vols Day & Malaak, to Shareeka Helaluddin who carved the way in expanding the Race Matters ecology, and to our beloved EP Prinita Thevarajah.   Produced by Samantha Haran See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #207 Forging possibility together

  2. Sep 10

    #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 sprawling connections between sexuality, techno-development, autonomy and innovation, desire and extraction. This is a convo that embarks on the labour history project of the internet while exploring the embodied approach of these technologies, identifying the way folks including activists, sex workers and artists have subverted the resource allocation of the internet. In search for a more liberated, erotic and queer internet. Produced by Janey Li, Sehej Kaur and Prinita Thevarajah See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #206 Comp/Ute/Ost

  3. Aug 28

    #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 devotional recitation meets collective voice, and ritual becomes a site of both grounding and action. We are also guided by Aunty Rhonda, whose life and work speak to the inseparability of ceremony, Country, and resistance. This episode is a reflection on spirituality as a living, breathing force within solidarity movements.A content note for First Nations listeners, this piece mentions ancestors who have passed and there is brief mention of death in custody.This episode was produced by Alicia Zhao, with supervision and creative advice from Shareeka Helaluddin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #205 The Poetics of Chanting

  4. Jul 17

    #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 during NAIDOC Week 2026 . This special episode is a syndication of Monday July 6ths broadcast from Dame Phyllis Front Centre in greater Victoria, hosted by Shiralee Hood, Tash Norris and Nayuka Hood Special thanks to the labour and love of Juliet Fox, Michaela Stubbs and the 3CR team, Samantha Haran and Shareeka Helaluddin.  Hosted by Gabriella Accaria and Leya Kim Produced by Kwame Slusher and Prinita Thevarajah  Sound Design by Leya Kim Graphics by Malaak ACAB Betty and Piggy Patrol by Rubyrose Bancroft @rubyrosebancroft See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #204 All the Best & Race Matters Present: 3CRs Beyond the Bars Prison Radio

  5. Jul 2

    #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, and how these structures continue to shape the worlds we inherit. Together, they explore racial capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, solidarity across occupied lands, and the role of art and language in imagining futures beyond colonialism. Spanning Turtle Island and so-called Australia, this is a conversation about refusing inherited narratives and creating new ways of seeing, speaking and belonging. This episode was produced and hosted by Wiradjuri baddie, Ethan Lyons for Race Matters on FBi Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #203 Wall Street, Boundary Street: Saul Williams & DRMNGOW on Empire, Music and Liberation

  6. Jun 4

    #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 and Samantha Haran come together to map this new genAI tech within the longer history of capitalist-imperialist surveillance and exploitation. Sara and Joannie discuss how they’re feeling in this moment as AI technologies are seemingly taking over. Sara reminds us of the science fiction of our childhoods that mirror the moment we are now living, and Joannie speaks to her recent experiences in community organising against the planned data centres in Western Sydney. Together, they reflect on strategies of organising, resistance and imagination. They listen through an interview that Janey and Samantha did with digital surveillance researcher and organiser, D.R. Sooriya. D reflects on and illuminates the fact amidst the outrage and uncertainty around what this new age of AI means, what we should most be focused on is the way it forms part of a longer, larger and deeper project on the part of tech billlionaries to force us into a certain kind of future. Most importantly, D reminds us that we are not helpless against this tirade - we can resist these techno-fascist futures, and build our own worlds in their place.  Produced by Joannie Lee and Samantha Haran Episode artwork by Janey Li HOPECORE: ANTI-AI ORGANISING FROM AROUND THE WORLD The Luddite Club No Tech for Apartheid Data Workers Inquiry Recent win - Boorloo/Perth data centre plan revoked Get involved with Stop the Slop! Campaign to stop the data centres in Western Sydney (join the Whatsapp channel) Upscrolled (social media platform built by Palestinian organisers)   FURTHER RESOURCES  Hell is Empty and the Devils Are All Here: AI and Imperialism in the Current Crisis  Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence - Kate Crawford  AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference - Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future - Roberto Gonzales Imagination: A Manifesto - Ruha Benjamin Glitch feminism: A Manifesto - Legacy Russell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #202 Building new worlds on the grave of AI

  7. May 29

    #201 Palestine Is The Litmus Test

    'There are two issues of our time really, that I think amount to a litmus test for morality as far as I'm concerned. One is what you're prepared to do on behalf of the Palestinian people and the other is what are you prepared to do on behalf of gay and lesbian people?" - Black, queer poet and activist June Jordan in an interview for 'A Place of Rage' (1991) by Prabhita Parmar What are people willing to do for the Palestinian cause? This is a question that Sara sifts through with Lebanese activist Ahmad Khochaiche and comrade to Maxime Camo, the spokesperson for the Australian arm of 'A Thousand Madleens' the freedom flotilla dedicated to organising civilians to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. Amidst the conflicting emotions of rage and survival, in holding the privilege of existing removed from the bombings, Sara invites us to expand our perspective on our personal agency, like embarking for a journey right to Gaza, that will alchemise our grief for the Palestinian cause. This episode was hosted by Sara El Youghun, produced by Yvonne Hong with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah. Huge thanks to Ahmad Khochaiche and Maxime Camo for being guests on today's show. Resources: ★ Donate to A Thousand Madleens here. ★ Donate to Australian Palestine Advocacy Network here. ★ Buy After the Last Sky, a compilation album by Al Gharib dedicated “For the Children of Gaza” (a record label based in Tripoli, Lebanon). Proceeds go to the Dalia Association. ★ Read June Jordan's 'Poetry For Palestine' here. ★ Read how humanitarian aid has been transformed into a political instrument of coercion and control in Gaza here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    #201 Palestine Is The Litmus Test

  8. May 28

    #200 They're Finally Looksmaxxing With the Rest Of Us

    Sehej, Leya and Yvonne hop into the studio today to chat about the history of looksmaxxing as an inherited tradition for all oppressed people. Inspired by texts on the 'Politics of Being Ugly', digressions include Jia Tolentino's 'The Age of Instagram Face', the distinctions between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and looksmaxxing as self-surveillance for brown Women of Colour. This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah. cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise this is different for all experiences of gender, culture and bodies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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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  • Creator
    FBi Radio
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
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    Explicit
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    © 2026 FBi Radio
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