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 Australiaʼs first wars since 2020. Frontier War Stories is a podcast that details across the continent, the wars waged by the colonising British, the massacres and horific dehumanisation that was used as a strategy of genocide by the settling empire and the profoundly dedicated resistance held by Aboriginal warriors.

Joined by King, a Ghanian/Wiradjuri creative and newest member of the RM team, these episode dives deeper into the lore of Pemuwluy and Dundali. Pemulwuy, being the first resistance fighter against the colony, organising and leading mob to retaliate against the genocidal regime. Dundali, being the last publicly hung warrior, a symbol of the colonisers to others considering resistance.

Over a weekend that memorialises one version of history that seemingly erases the Truth about what happened on this land, this episode reminds us of the ways colonising nation states utilise propaganda and dehumanise resistance.

With a special thanks to Clothing the Gap for sponsoring this episode. We are so grateful to be joined by Boe as we attempt to subvert the revisionist history of so called Australia.

Audio including sound bites of Malabar Beach, Parramatta and Magandjin CBD

Marcia Langton on Pemulwuy for the ABC
Uncle Coco at the 2020 Dundali Remembrance Day in Magandjin
Pray by DRMNGNOW

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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 Sunday of Philippines liberation movement Anakbayan on yearning itself can be a weapon, and that until the diaspora can return, they must continue to fight the struggle of the people no matter where they are. Then, Virginia Barahona with Yung Prodigy cofounder Maia Ihemeje on the ripple effects of parental/kinship incarceration and how their work with young people is guiding us towards a more free and connected world from the ground up.

𖡼 Join YP and their freedom on the line campaign to make prison calls free.

𖡼 Follow Anakbayan Syd for more on their movement building

𖡼 Stay updated with the Thousand Madleens flotilla getting aid to occupied Gaza, and their fundraiser in April

SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.

𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.

𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi ⁠and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo

𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong

𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao

𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran ⁠

𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Thevarajah

𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney

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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 collaboration with abolitionist youth organisation Yung Prodigy, after a mentorship exploring radical radio from the roots up. Two debut works by Lucy Norton and a newfound colalbroation between Leya and Sehej Kaur Sehmbhi. The many sounds, textures and frays that tether us to place, family or memory.

SOIL was a radio mentorship designed for young people through the model of liberatory radio and community-centred wellbeing. It spanned 6 workshops, shared meals, new friendships and audio ventures.

𖡼 Thank you to our teachers Aunty Angeline Penrith, Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, DOBBY, Tan Safi, Dr Nakad.
𖡼 Program co-dreaming and coordination by Lil Barto, Maia Onyenachi ⁠and Shareeka Helaluddin with support from Natalie Chiappazzo
𖡼 Digital Coordinator and video editor Yvonne Hong
𖡼 Artwork by Leo Tsao
𖡼 Documentation by Samantha Haran ⁠
𖡼 Additional broadcast support by Samantha Haran, Yvonne Hong, Prinita Theverajah
𖡼 SOIL has been made possible by City of Sydney

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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 aka Society of Cutting Up Men (S.C.U.M); it’s been a vital source of place-making and connection.

Alongside artists Rosa / Making Out and Yvette Ofa Agapow, she brings us an interstate perspective on the purpose of noise in the face of identity politics, and the possibility of noise as a transmission for freedom.

This episode was produced by Carmen Mercedes Gago Schieb with creative direction and final audio production by Shareeka Helaluddin. Image of Carmen by Valerie Joy, songs courtesy of the artists.

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A bittersweet send off to Executive Producer Shareeka Helaluddin who has metamorphed Race Matters into the ever abundant, ever expansive program that it is.

Previous producers Darren Lesaguis and Tanya Ali bear witness to Shareeka's shepherding of the show, bringing to mic the unheard and the unseen.

Also hearing from six of the Race Matter's current producers, Sara El Younghun, Toobs, Joannie Lee, Sehej Kaur, Yvonne Hong and Samantha Haran who reflect on the legacy of Shareeka, and her embodiment of anti racist community organising though radio as craft.

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We know that what we do today is intiamtely connected with what has been done before.

Samantha Haran and Tim Worton reflect as kinfolk on their journey with Race Matters, and expanding into their queerness.

They pay tribute to the episodes and producers that drew them into community, and challenged them into evolving and unfurling their embodiment of queerness in so called Australia, as two young queer people of colour. With reverence and gratitude to those who created space for us here: Tanya Ali, Darren Lesaguis, Sara Khan, Rhyan Clapham, Georgia Mokak & Shareeka Helaluddin.

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Sehej Kaur and Wen Pei Low share a tender and vulnerable episode about their friendship and celebrate queer and crip kinship together.

They share stories of navigating sterile, western medical systems and how they found and held each other through it all. They dream of crip futures that move beyond simply surviving and toward thriving.

Sehej reads a poem by Dom Kelly that is titled “an elegy for a crip friend (thank you alice). You can find it here

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRHzspHEYGq/?img_index=4

You can find Wen Pei on instagram @_waterclover.

This podcast was edited by Prinita Thevarajah.

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"We have been doing this because we love our people”

Joannie Lee and Sara El Youghun welcome Moh, a community builder and organiser from Myanmar to talk about her peoples’ fight for freedom, self-determination and justice from brutal military imperialism. Together they talk about taking pride in our solidarity and what it takes to keep our collective movement for liberation alive and interconnected. We honour the people fighting on the ground in Myanmar and look to them to hold steadfast here in this colony.

The people of Myanmar will not be forgotten. You can check out more info here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/all-in-one-piece-movement-sydn/4291906044463956

Many thanks to Janey Li for producing this episode and our beloved Executive Producer, Shareeka Helaluddin for all her support. Podcast mixed by Janey Li.

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