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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#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…
#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…
#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',…
#199 Mothering Thru Fascism
This episode is a love letter to everyone mothering on stolen land, in displaced bodies, in the precarity of modernity. It is a reminder that queer and Indigenous ways of childrearing and matrilineal…
#198 Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars
For this special episode of Race Matters, we are joined by Boe Spearim from Frontier War Stories, Gamilaraay and Kooma activisit and Dad who has been archiving so called Australiaʼs first wars since…
#197 Justice is Love in Public
We are bound by the same chains, therefore we must forge the same key. Two stories of interconnected struggles and how we can forge the tools towards freedom. Day Soriano chats to Sunday of…
#196 Rivers of Memory
From the rivers of Chile, the mountains of Gyeonggi-do, to the Cumberland Highway, exploring what it means to be and live and remember in relation to place.Our first episode in collaboration with…
#195 The Politics of Noise
Extreme music for people with extreme experiences.Noise is a genre that can be misunderstood as anti-social and harsh, but for our guest producer artist Carmen Mercedes Gago Schieb aka Society of…
#194 Shareeka's Final Show
A bittersweet send off to Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin who has metamorphed Race Matters into the ever abundant, ever expansive program that it is. Previous producers Darren Lesaguis and…
#193 To those who came before us
We know that what we do today is intiamtely connected with what has been done before. Samantha Haran and Tim Worton reflect as kinfolk on their journey with Race Matters, and expanding into their…
#192 On Queer and Crip Kinship
Sehej Kaur and Wen Pei Low share a tender and vulnerable episode about their friendship and celebrate queer and crip kinship together. They share stories of navigating sterile, western medical…
#191 All in one movement for Myanmar
"We have been doing this because we love our people”Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghun welcome Moh, a community builder and organiser from Myanmar to talk about her peoples’ fight for freedom,…
#190 On forging community cinema spaces
"I want it to feel like you're in my living room including the chaos" On today's show, Alicia Zhao and Bruce Koussaba (of Liberation Cinema) are in conversation with the brilliant and staunch…
#189 Anti-caste science fiction
To be able to truly envision better world—not just in vague outlines, but vividly in all its colour and brilliance, so much so that you begin to taste on it on your tongue—is the first step to making…
#188 Joy as Discipline
How do we sustain ourselves for the revolution? Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is a multi award-winning novelist, human rights advocate, lawyer and sociologist researching Arab & Muslim social justice…
#187 How to build together
How do we rely on each other and take ownership of our collective liberation? Sehej and Janey take us through sites of DIY culture and alternative economies. From ad-hoc sound systems in Bengal, a…
#186 Reprezenting Community Radio
A love letter to the hearts and labour of community radio, beaming from a shipping container in Brixton, London aka Reprezent Radio. Binta Yade is a London-based poet, community builder, storyteller…
#185 Fracturing the language of empire
How do you ground your work in the sacredness of life while needing to speak back to the very powers destroying them? Shareeka Helaluddin and Tommy Boutros speak to journalist and novelist Omar El…
#184 Black Thoughts Matter
"I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth..." These poetic words by Black revolutionary Assata Shakur reverberate through the work of Munanjahli and South Sea Islander scholar, writer…
#183 Listening through glitch
Non-linear sounds, improvising as spiritual catharsis, computer coding as companion. Sehej Kaur & Alicia Zhao immerse into the sound worlds of naarm-based artist Nū. Utilising live coding,…
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Race Matters has published 100 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Arts, Education.
Race Matters is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.
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