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 stor...
Latest episodes
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49 min
#214 Nodutdol
Striking against U.S. Imperialism in one territory will strike against U.S. Imperialism everywhere. When we wage and win the war against U.S. Imperialism in our homeland, that in t…
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33 min
#213 On carving out space for our stories
“Why be a sunflower and turn towards the sun? I myself am the sun” Ousmane Sembène ~ In this episode of Race Matters, kaapse South African sound-maker Tristan Cornelissen speaks wi…
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32 min
#212 In the wreckage of expectations
What does it mean to understand the personal and political as truly intertwined? To know and to understand that the wins, griefs, losses, day-to-days and dreams of our lives are al…
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35 min
#211 A Language We Learned / Basjia
“What kind of space allows people like us to fully exist? To be a Black, queer creative is to return to this question again and again, and, sometimes, to become the answer yourself…
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46 min
#210 A Language We Learned / Huda the Goddess
What languages do we inherit before we ever find the words for ourselves?Huda the Goddess traces the journey from the language of her childhood in Sudan and Egypt to the poetry tha…
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54 min
#209 After Eelam 2
after the floods, people. after thefires, people. not governments.not borders. not the soldiers or rifles. not the statehistory or news or flag. people, in masks,cooking food, sort…
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52 min
#208 After Eelam 1
Knowing means understanding there are things we can never know All knowledge is limited by positionality and governed by relationships The world cannot be fully understood by life…
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35 min
#207 Forging possibility together
Today on the show, long-time Race Matters host Sara El Youghun interviews some of our new brilliant volunteers: King, Tristan and Leya. Together, they chat through why they were dr…
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38 min
#206 Comp/Ute/Ost
What Does It Mean To Be A Person Beyond the Body? In today's convo, Race Matters' Janey Li and Sehej Kaur chat with technologist, researcher, designer and writer of A Sexual Histor…
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36 min
#205 The Poetics of Chanting
What role does spirituality play in our solidarity movements? What is spirituality without accountability?Alicia Zhao traces the connection between ritual, chanting and protest, jo…
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1 h 08
#204 All the Best & Race Matters Present: 3CRs Beyond the Bars Prison Radio
The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures…
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40 min
#203 Wall Street, Boundary Street: Saul Williams & DRMNGOW on Empire, Music and Liberation
Poet, musician and cultural visionary Saul Williams joins Yorta Yorta artist, writer and activist Neil Morris for a conversation that traces the colonial logics hidden in plain sig…
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53 min
#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 n…
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27 min
#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…
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34 min
#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…
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45 min
#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 childrear…
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42 min
#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 Australiaʼ…
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46 min
#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…
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39 min
#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 col…
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55 min
#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…