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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 turn positively impacts the fight for Indigenous sovereignty here. Yvonne Hong interviews Jamie Tyberg and Miyeon Jang from Nodutdol, a NYC based diasporic Korean organisation that organise for a world free of imperialism and for Korea's reunification and national liberation. Together, Yvonne and Anakbayan Sydney member Day Soriano reflect on both Korea and the Phillipines' struggle against American imperialism.   Reading list: ★ Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong, Jai-eui Lee, and Jeon Yong-Ho ★ Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo ★ Nodutdol's official statement 'US Out of Korea'   To keep up to date and get involved with Nodutdol and Anakbayan Sydney: ★ @nodutdol on Instagram ★ @anakbayan.sydney on Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“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 with Safia Amadou, co-founder and co-director of Africa Film Festival Australia, about the importance of creating space for African and African-diaspora filmmakers to tell their own stories. From the histories of colonial representation, to the growing audiences for African cinema in so-called Australia, we ask what becomes possible when people have the space and means to decide not only what stories are told, but how they are told, and who they are told for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 all shaped by political infrastructures?  And how can this knowing transform how we live our lives? On today’s show, Samantha Haran is in conversation with Lebanese writer Sheree Joseph about her new memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations. This memoir takes us on a journey through Sheree’s own reckoning with being unable to fulfil what she thought was expected of her by her mid 30s: a husband, motherhood, children, a home, a neat plan. Coming to terms with these expectations-lost required her to re-think everything about what it means to live a meaningful life. Together, Samantha and Sheree talk through how Sheree has been reconceiving everything from motherhood to writing to grief, and finding a new paradigm for how to live in this ever-changing, ever-heartbreaking - but also, ever-beautiful - world. Buy Sheree Joseph’s memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations Follow Sheree on instagram: @shereewriter  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“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.” Visionary performer, curator, founder of Pyramid, Basjia reflects on the language she discovered through movement, tracing the journey from a body shaped by expectation to one that became a site of freedom, pleasure and expression. Together, King and Basjia explore what it means to move through a world that celebrates Black creativity and how performance can transmute into a practice of resistance.A Language We Learned is a month-long Race Matters residency led by King Baba, centring Black Afro-diasporic creatives across so-called Australia through storytelling, conversation and music. The series is supported by technical producer and creative collaborator Prinitha Theverajah, with creative mentorship from Shareeka Helaluddin and Binta Yade, and artwork by Tim Worton. Content warning: this episode contains discussion of eating disorder and dysmorphia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 that became her way of making sense of the world. Together, King and Huda reflect on ancestry, oral storytelling and the wisdom carried through memory before turning toward the communities that teach us how to belong. Through Black Inc, ballroom and chosen family, Huda shares a vision of care rooted in softness, truth and collective responsibility. A reminder that the most powerful legacies are the ones that make space for others to flourish.A Language We Learned is a month-long Race Matters residency led by King Baba, centring Black Afro-diasporic creatives across so-called Australia through storytelling, conversation and music. The series is supported by technical producer and creative collaborator Prinitha Theverajah, with creative mentorship from Shareeka Helaluddin and Binta Yade, and artwork by Tim Worton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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, sorting rubble & burned wood, driving tonmngeach other, asking are you okay, baby? when the skyturned black, when the sun went into the ocean,when ash fell instead of rain. Fatimah Asghar, al-haq After Eelam is a patchwork of voices, struggles, solidarities that ask what does a Tamil homeland look like, feel like, breathe like, outside of a man made agenda? Outside of borders, class, caste, gender? What does Tamil liberation on the island of so called Sri Lanka mean if it includes not just the North Eastern Tamils, but also our Malayaha and Muslim kin? And where does queerness fit in Tamil nationalism? Thank you to Angel Queentus, Hazel Tetteh, Imaad Majeed and Krish for sharing your stories. Sound design Fr3sh by Kareem Lofty Produced by Prinita Thevarajah See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 in human shapes because humans cannot occupy the spaces held by all other life or to see to the end of connections Ambelin Kwaymullina After Eelam is a patchwork of voices, struggles, solidarities that ask what does a Tamil homeland look like, feel like, breathe like, outside of a man made agenda? Outside of borders, class, caste, gender? What does Tamil liberation on the island of so called Sri Lanka mean if it includes not just the North Eastern Tamils, but also our Malayaha and Muslim kin?  Thank you to Brahmi, Aunty Kalyani Inpakumar, Thinesh Thillai, Sanjana Ravi and Uncle Ana Parajasingham for sharing your stories. Produced by Prinita Thevarajah See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 drawn to joining this community, some of their favourite and most formative tracks, and what makes a place like Race Matters brilliant & special 3 Shout out to our other new vols Day & Malaak, to Shareeka Helaluddin who carved the way in expanding the Race Matters ecology, and to our beloved EP Prinita Thevarajah.   Produced by Samantha Haran See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 History of the Internet's Mindy Seu. A day after Mindy's lecture performance of the same title, the trio touch on the sprawling connections between sexuality, techno-development, autonomy and innovation, desire and extraction. This is a convo that embarks on the labour history project of the internet while exploring the embodied approach of these technologies, identifying the way folks including activists, sex workers and artists have subverted the resource allocation of the internet. In search for a more liberated, erotic and queer internet. Produced by Janey Li, Sehej Kaur and Prinita Thevarajah See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What role does spirituality play in our solidarity movements? What is spirituality without accountability?Alicia Zhao traces the connection between ritual, chanting and protest, joined by Joannie Lee. We hear from artist, organiser and Buddhist practitioner Elaine Su-Hui, who reflects on how devotional recitation meets collective voice, and ritual becomes a site of both grounding and action. We are also guided by Aunty Rhonda, whose life and work speak to the inseparability of ceremony, Country, and resistance. This episode is a reflection on spirituality as a living, breathing force within solidarity movements.A content note for First Nations listeners, this piece mentions ancestors who have passed and there is brief mention of death in custody.This episode was produced by Alicia Zhao, with supervision and creative advice from Shareeka Helaluddin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 in which racism continues to be embedded ~ Angela Davis Beyond the Bars is a Prison Radio broadcast by 3CR that aired during NAIDOC Week 2026 . This special episode is a syndication of Monday July 6ths broadcast from Dame Phyllis Front Centre in greater Victoria, hosted by Shiralee Hood, Tash Norris and Nayuka Hood Special thanks to the labour and love of Juliet Fox, Michaela Stubbs and the 3CR team, Samantha Haran and Shareeka Helaluddin.  Hosted by Gabriella Accaria and Leya Kim Produced by Kwame Slusher and Prinita Thevarajah  Sound Design by Leya Kim Graphics by Malaak ACAB Betty and Piggy Patrol by Rubyrose Bancroft @rubyrosebancroft See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 sight. From Wall Street to Boundary Street, they unpack how empire is built through naming, branding, borders and memory, and how these structures continue to shape the worlds we inherit. Together, they explore racial capitalism, Indigenous sovereignty, solidarity across occupied lands, and the role of art and language in imagining futures beyond colonialism. Spanning Turtle Island and so-called Australia, this is a conversation about refusing inherited narratives and creating new ways of seeing, speaking and belonging. This episode was produced and hosted by Wiradjuri baddie, Ethan Lyons for Race Matters on FBi Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“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 new age - but in reality, it is part of an ancient history. Today on the show, Sara El Youghun, Joannie Lee, Janey Li and Samantha Haran come together to map this new genAI tech within the longer history of capitalist-imperialist surveillance and exploitation. Sara and Joannie discuss how they’re feeling in this moment as AI technologies are seemingly taking over. Sara reminds us of the science fiction of our childhoods that mirror the moment we are now living, and Joannie speaks to her recent experiences in community organising against the planned data centres in Western Sydney. Together, they reflect on strategies of organising, resistance and imagination. They listen through an interview that Janey and Samantha did with digital surveillance researcher and organiser, D.R. Sooriya. D reflects on and illuminates the fact amidst the outrage and uncertainty around what this new age of AI means, what we should most be focused on is the way it forms part of a longer, larger and deeper project on the part of tech billlionaries to force us into a certain kind of future. Most importantly, D reminds us that we are not helpless against this tirade - we can resist these techno-fascist futures, and build our own worlds in their place.  Produced by Joannie Lee and Samantha Haran Episode artwork by Janey Li HOPECORE: ANTI-AI ORGANISING FROM AROUND THE WORLD The Luddite Club No Tech for Apartheid Data Workers Inquiry Recent win - Boorloo/Perth data centre plan revoked Get involved with Stop the Slop! Campaign to stop the data centres in Western Sydney (join the Whatsapp channel) Upscrolled (social media platform built by Palestinian organisers)   FURTHER RESOURCES  Hell is Empty and the Devils Are All Here: AI and Imperialism in the Current Crisis  Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence - Kate Crawford  AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference - Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future - Roberto Gonzales Imagination: A Manifesto - Ruha Benjamin Glitch feminism: A Manifesto - Legacy Russell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'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 people and the other is what are you prepared to do on behalf of gay and lesbian people?" - Black, queer poet and activist June Jordan in an interview for 'A Place of Rage' (1991) by Prabhita Parmar What are people willing to do for the Palestinian cause? This is a question that Sara sifts through with Lebanese activist Ahmad Khochaiche and comrade to Maxime Camo, the spokesperson for the Australian arm of 'A Thousand Madleens' the freedom flotilla dedicated to organising civilians to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. Amidst the conflicting emotions of rage and survival, in holding the privilege of existing removed from the bombings, Sara invites us to expand our perspective on our personal agency, like embarking for a journey right to Gaza, that will alchemise our grief for the Palestinian cause. This episode was hosted by Sara El Youghun, produced by Yvonne Hong with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah. Huge thanks to Ahmad Khochaiche and Maxime Camo for being guests on today's show. Resources: ★ Donate to A Thousand Madleens here. ★ Donate to Australian Palestine Advocacy Network here. ★ Buy After the Last Sky, a compilation album by Al Gharib dedicated “For the Children of Gaza” (a record label based in Tripoli, Lebanon). Proceeds go to the Dalia Association. ★ Read June Jordan's 'Poetry For Palestine' here. ★ Read how humanitarian aid has been transformed into a political instrument of coercion and control in Gaza here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Being Ugly', digressions include Jia Tolentino's 'The Age of Instagram Face', the distinctions between gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia, and looksmaxxing as self-surveillance for brown Women of Colour. This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah. cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise this is different for all experiences of gender, culture and bodies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.