Race Matters

About 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 (https://www.fbi.radio/programs/race-matters) including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our instagram (https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/) Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series (https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/race-matters-sol-dar-ty-synd) - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands (https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/racematters_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 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 (https://cbf.org.au/)

Publisher

FBi Radio

Category

arts · education · news · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2020

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

160 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026

   #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, 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 (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

2. 

   17 Jul 2026

   #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 in which racism continues to be embedded ~ Angela Davis Beyond the Bars (https://www.3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2026) 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 (https://www.rubyrosebancroft.com/) @rubyrosebancroft See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   2 Jul 2026

   #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 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 (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Who has been a guest on Race Matters

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ra Life
• Micaela Sahhar
• Leah Manaema Avene

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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