Race Matters
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
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
#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, Ethiopian …
#182 Desire Made from Corpses
What does it mean that desire, even queer desire, is built on dead bodies? What happens when we realise that our desires, even our most intimate, erotic ones, may be rooted in specific, traceable vio…
#181 Holding Breath
“Breath. Something we all have in common, yet most take for granted”
An invitation to listen in, attune to, hold breath and be in solidarity with those in our community living with Long Covid. In co…
#180 The energy of the moment
"We are in a decolonial moment, we need the energy to keep going"
A conversation between Shareeka Helaluddin and astrologer, spirit worker for the liberation, Ra Life. Hear them on what it is to use …
#179 Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
"... and in truth it is a story that is not mine nor hers; I am searching for the shape of what is ours."
Hear Sara and Joannie are in conversation with Palestinian writer and academic Micaela Sahha…
#178 A Cacophony of ancestors
How do we understand hope as something within ourselves, and not as a far off horizon?
A conversation with anti-oppressive therapist and educator Leah Manaema Avene on their expansive practice rooted…
#177 77 Years of Resistance
"You have to speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
What does it mean to commemorate Nakba, not as a singular historical act, but as a way to honour the resistance that has continued long before…
#176 Unsettling Zionist Funding in the arts
Without truth, what ground is there to stand on?
We started this piece into Creative Australia's appalling decision to rescind Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi's position from the Venice Bienele, howev…
#175 To be the songline that outlives the corroded disk
We’re not just data, we are storytellers. Sometimes, the most radical thing we can do is speak, loudly and deliberately, into futures we get to shape ourselves.
Ethan and Janey are joined by Nyungar …
#174 Kanaky Rising
“We only have wood and stone to fight with to preserve our life”
The words of young activists from Kanaky (so-called New Caledonia) who are engaged in fights to reclaim their land from French occupat…
#173 Strength in prayer, in spirit
"We're holding hope for other people and each other, and that's what the peer model is."
Content Note: this episode contains mentions of suicidality.
Queer Muslim baddie takeover ~ in dedication to …
#172 A menace to our enemies
Can writing be a political practice? How do you write in a way that serves liberation, the making of better worlds?
Today Samantha and Bipasha are in conversation with Fabliha Yeaqub, a queer Bangla…
#171 The Ruby of Western Sydney
It takes a femme queen.
Movement as liberation, and the spirituality of performance. Join Ethan Lyons and Tim Worton in deep kiki with the Ruby of Western Sydney, vogue diva from the House of Silky,…
#170 Redfern Renaissance
“I’m a child of the revolution”
Theatre as protest, storytelling as weapon. Fifty two years since the inception of Black Theatre - the subversive art form that spoke back to the colony and incited t…
#169 Our voices together, bouncing off the walls
A collision of sounds and a system built through found materials transforming every space it enters.
Guest hosts (and fbi family) Madi Martin-Bygrave and Virginia Barahona chat to DJ, community-build…
#168 Hope is a knife
Not only is this Dunya temporary, it is also worth saving. Until we are all free.
Open your ears and hearts with Sara El Youghun and Attu Ngor as they have a vulnerable chat with artist, poet, and ki…
#167 The struggle is generational
Repping the Black Caucus and some of the staunch advocates he organises alongside, Wiradjuri organiser and creative Ethan Lyons joins us as guest host.
Stories that ode his matrilineal teachers, move…
#166 Did you come here to find history?
Objects tell their stories if you let them.
Bringing together inane objects, tapestries, Musiviri paintings and self portraits; Nusra Latif Qureshi work recognises the cracks within imperial institut…
#165 One day longer, one day stronger
Fourteen years too long, permanent visas and protection now.
Content note: this episode traces the cruelty of state violence and asylum seeking experiences, with mention of suicide. There is no graph…
#164 Unspeakable
What does accessibility to sexual liberation really mean?
Content warning: this interview contains mention of sexual violence.
Alicia Zhao shares an intimate dialogue with friend, artist and advocate…