Race Matters

"⁠An experimental and (non)fictional invitation to see myths and mythmaking as a form of queer storytelling.

Home dwells in the languages we keep."

Darren Lesaguis is of Bisaya and Tagalog descent, a…

"⁠A journey through time, and gender- exploring Dalit womanhood and Dravidian masculinity through an anti-caste and trans lens. Bounded and centred by an all-Dalit & Tamil Greek chorus consisting of …

"⁠How do you find your place in a world that was never built to accommodate you? An intimate memoir, unravelling the shifts in a body and the world around them in a world before and during the global…

"⁠What is it that you call home? For a queer Palestinian in diaspora the answer can be complicated. From Beiti to Beitak, Chicago to Naarm, I try to find out. Featuring interviews with Nourah of Salo…

Broadcasting from the 24/7 sit-in at the PM's office, we hear from two core organisers from Families for Palestine - Sarah Shaweesh and Zuzia. We chatted about the collective power of staking a picke…

A sprawling, expansive chat with two artists who embody a DIY ethos interconnected with spirituality and poetry. 

Two chats with musician, sculptor Lonnie Holley and poet Moor Mother (Camae Awaye) ch…

Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer. 

"We are watching genocide, a lot of us come from lines of attempted genocide. we can't 'self care' our wa…

Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer. 

Hear Toobs and community herbalist Salma Yassien speaking through community practices of collective care,…

Conversations at the intersection of healing, justice and anti-racism happening this summer. 

Hear Tanya Shukla in conversation with narrative therapist Sekneh-Hammoud Beckett. In an intimate and rec…

We are honored to offer this bonus episode with gratitude and soldiarity with The Red Rattler Theatre, Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) & Blak Caucus. This is as much a talk as it is a com…

Xuan and Marina from Amplify Bookstore are back for another episode of anti racist book club! Hear their recommendations of Palestinian authors across all genres of books. This is by no means a compr…

Alicia Zhao and Toobs Anwar chat to poet and Fulbright scholar Stephanie Niu, about her expansive research on Christmas Island with the local community, weaving together poetry, stories and community…

Where would Race Matters be without Tanya Ali? Honestly, we probably wouldn't exist.

As well as being one of the founding co-hosts of the show, Tanya was a luminous compass for the show’s vision and …

We take some reprieve amid the heaviness of the world to bring you some of the new(ish) voices of Race Matters. Over the last six months, every week, our new volunteers have been coming together to h…

Meet some of our newest co-hosts and producers Samantha Haran and Alicia Zhao. They’ve been working together on this new series to reimagine and explore the possibilities of what ‘education’ can be a…

We are very excited and honored to bring forward the first episode of Migrant S3x Workers of Colour, a series of intimate dialogues produced by Jasmine Raat Ki Raani

"The views, thoughts and opinion…

On today’s show we seek to continue to uplift the ongoing resistance and interconnectedness of displaced peoples on these lands, in Palestine and occupied territories. Tracing settler colonial roots …

As the noise continues and racist rhetoric unfolds across the continent, Race Matters will be deferring our platform entirely to First Nations activist and community groups to amplify nuances beyond …

Tahlia Palmer's work grapples with tensions of the weight of colonial trauma and finding comfort in recovering ancestral practices. She's an artist of Murri and European lineage, working in a variety…

BEYOND THE BARS X RACE MATTERS SOLIDARITY SYNDICATE

From Gadigal to ... those on the inside, with love. 

This week we dedicate our airwaves to the trailblazing, radical output of Beyond the Bars Pris…