Race Matters

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 offeringWe honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of. Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran Race Matters is made possible thanks to the Community Broadcasting Foundation

Race Matters is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  #204 All the Best & Race Matters Present: 3CRs Beyond the Bars Prison Radio

  Jul 16, 20261h 9m

  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.

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  #202 Building new worlds on the grave of AI

  Jun 4, 202653 minS0

  <p>“Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient.” - Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Sara and Joannie discuss how they’re feeling in this moment as AI technologies are seemingly taking over. Sara reminds us of the sc...

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  #201 Palestine Is The Litmus Test

  May 28, 202627 minS0

  <p>'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?"</p> <p>- Black, queer poet and activist June Jordan in an interview for 'A Place of Rage' (1991) by Prabhita Parmar</p> <p>What are people willing to do for the Palestinian cause? This is a question that Sara sifts through with Lebanese activist Ahmad Khochaiche...

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  #200 They're Finally Looksmaxxing With the Rest Of Us

  May 27, 202634 minS0

  <p>Sehej, Leya and Yvonne hop into the studio today to chat about the history of looksmaxxing as an inherited tradition for all oppressed people.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This episode was produced by Ethan Lyons with help from Executive Producer Prinita Thevarajah.</p> <p>cw: eating disorders and body dysphoria</p> <p>Spoken from the personal experiences from our Race Matters hosts and recognise t...

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  #199 Mothering Thru Fascism

  May 21, 202645 minS0

  <p>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 childrearing and matrilineal care are often similar practices. One and a half years into raising a child and a lifetime into raising themselves in community, executive producer Prinita Thevarajah collages conversations with Vanessa Marian Varghese, Midori Mukai and Ella Noah Bancroft to reveal the ultimate truth: that the violence of modernity world was built off womb envy, and that carework is crucial to survive fascism.</p> <p>Vanessa Marian...

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