Race Matters

A tale of two Dilwale's: Mateo and Bipasha move through the phenomena of Bollywood cinema and its grasp on broader subcontinental culture. Specifically, a classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) a…

Race Matters as found family, as a liberation practice, as a space to play. Settle into a grounded and cosy episode hearing the newest voices on air and behind the scenes:

Yvonne, Hong, Aysenur Kara,…

"The people’s blood won’t stain our hands" - the words decried from a recent direct action in Athens where the port workers took industrial action to stop the shipment of Israeli arms. This is an exa…

Your feelings are your responsibility.

Content Note: this episode contains mention of explicit sexual content and swearing.

A final sharing from our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries, hosted by Ja…

COVID is not over. It is still here. This is an invitation to understand that reality, and to let it transform you.

Grounded in disability justice, and brought to you by a chorus of staunch disabled …

Would you make a good revolutionary leader? What would you do when the playable revolution corrupts? Mateo and Sara are joined by Berlin-based revolutionary game designer and artist Danielle Brathwai…

What comes to mind when you hear “language under occupation”? We're joined by Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator, Hasib Hourani to move through this question and making lan…

What is it to hold the heartbreak of facing a world of systemic injustice, and turn it into energy and meanignful action?

We're joined by Inez, a radio broadcaster on 3CR's Thursday Breakfast, commun…

There are no universities left in Gaza. 

Alicia Zhao & Samantha Haran take us through the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza, a soundscape of the Student Intifada. Field recordings from a…

Full house on Race Matters today as we welcome the amazing crew from Jam for Justice - a community fundraiser happening on June 22 raising funds for PARA (Palestine Australia Relief and Action) to su…

Censorship in the arts has been rampant across our galleries, theaters, airwaves and screens. As the genocide devastates across Palestine in its seventh month, we witness sites of art-making cower aw…

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 wi…

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 cur…

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 …

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 th…

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 Hist…

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…

A stunning and expansive world conjured by Aaqila aka halalbutch

Aaqila is a writer, artist, DJ and community organiser based on Whadjuk land and sometimes Gadigal land. Their habitude operates towar…

"Space is scared. We often think that space is related to the physical and the tangible but also the metaphysical. To hold space for someone is a great gift. In today's world, we all have these pocke…

an audio vignette exploring the past and future of pasifika music and what it means to make forward-thinking music as a pasifika artist. narrated by conversations with experimental producer ripley ka…