Race Matters

RED RATTLER X RACE MATTERS PRESENTS: EMBERS

Listen back to a tender and generative conversation held at our live community gathering at the Red Rattler, Embers. Following a screening of Lizzie's Bor…

What are our responsibilities when it comes to sharing stories of vulnerable communities, and those that have been displaced?  What are ways that we can understand one story as ways to disrupt, to un…

DECODING RACE, AI, ALGORITHMS & AUTOMATION

The  tech we use  impacts  our  lives. They aren’t neutral objects but can have particular worldviews baked-in to the very operation of them. It can be ove…

On Race Matters we head to Damascus, Syria as we are joined by researcher and creative Mia Shouha, co-founder and director of Souq. In an intimate chat, she shares how artists create in a complex, po…

Content note: this talk will mention Black deaths in custody, policy brutality, grief and mention of torture. These are told from the lived experience of our guest and how this shapes their response …

RADIO SKID ROW X RACE MATTERS SOLIDARITY SYNDICATE

This week we dedicate our airwaves to the trailblazing, radical output of Radio Skid Row 88.9FM. An honor to be joined by Aaliyah-Jade Bradbury - sh…

Our friends Marina & Xuan at Amplify Bookstore are back for another anti-racist Book Club takeover!

The episode spans works around invisible labour and recovering knowledge systems. In the first half…

Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller from NSW’s North West freshwater plains. Her work has long been dedicated to breathing life into objects and story of the past through song, language reviva…

Everyday is a good day to support and buy from Black artists. 

Formerly known as Black Bandcamp - Black Artist Database has a simple premise: to get more Black people paid for their music. It’s a cr…

What is the balance of curation and community-consultation especially when cultural identities are so fraught and disparate? How can a community-rooted event still serve as an invitation for learning…

On today’s show we’re exploring what it is to continue to tell stories across evolving digital landscapes and the need to teach younger generations to care for, learn and grow alongside Country. That…

Race Matters were joined by Catherine Madviza, project lead of Codebreakers - an innovative output working alongside young people in Western Sydney to critically engage with social media, carving spa…

Content note: This talk describes instances of transphobia and a mention of black deaths in custody. These are told from the lived experience of our panelists and how this shapes their response to th…

Fjorn Bastos is someone who speaks and moves with intention. As an artist, Fjorn works primarily in sound and a style of narrativised performance under the name Papaphilia. Her 2021 album - ‘Remembra…

A very special guest host this week, Sezzo: kōtare/kingfisher turned proud Ngāpuhi DJ, writer, curator, and medical student. She stepped on to the mic bringing with her a profound and loving dialogue…

What would it mean to consider the radical potential of love, empathy, and pleasure— as an antidote to oppression and disconnection?

Mimi Zhu doesn't want to romanticise love. Their debut title "Be …

What does it mean to engage with the stories of the forcibly displaced? What happens when those people seek support in each other - and what does solidarity with that movement look like for queer peo…

An emotional one ... Sara's last show. Join us as we revel, celebrate, cry, remember the four formidable and inimitable years that Sara Khan has offered us. It’s hard to say what Race Matters would b…

Content note: this story revolves around racial trauma and has mention of trauma, anti-Asian racism, colourism and references to statistics on suicide and self harm. Whilst not discussed in detail, w…

Too many incredible writers of colour, not enough time to read and do them justice! We are excited to be airing the first episode of BOOK CLUB with our friends at Amplify Bookstore - a site dedicated…