ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode, Chelsea & David ask: what can we learn from paying attention to the work that Blackfullas are doing across diverse frontlines in the war on race? From racial complaints processes, to suing the racists; working to redistribute their resources, or refusing to participate in their systems: Kevin Yow Yeh, Dr. Steven Hagan, Angela Barney-Leitch, and Senator Lidia Thorpe each offer unique insights into the scale of the war on race in the colony, and the many frontlines that Blackfullas and other racialised people are fighting on.
Reading list
Watego, Chelsea. ‘Always Bet on Black (Power): The Fight against Race’. Meanjin (Melbourne, Vic) 80, no. 3 (2021): 22–33.
Macoun, Alissa, Chelsea Watego, David Singh, Elizabeth Strakosch, and Kevin Yow Yeh. ‘The Human Rights Commission Has Handed down a Report on Racism at Australian Universities. Here’s Why It Fails’. The Conversation, 16 January 2025. http://theconversation.com/the-human-rights-commission-has-handed-down-a-report-on-racism-at-australian-universities-heres-why-it-fails-246422.
Singh, David, Chelsea Bond, and Helena Kajlich. ‘Racial Complaint and Sovereign Divergence: The Case of Australia’s First Indigenous Ophthalmologist’. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (Cambridge, UK) 49, no. 2 (2020): 145–52.
Ahmed, Sara. Complaint! Duke University Press, 2021.
Hagan, Stephen. ‘The Nexus between Judicial Bias against Indigenous Australians and Community Xenophobia’. Phd, University of Southern Queensland, 2016.
Credits
Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country’s Let’s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute’s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson.
Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of ‘Live, Laugh, Decolonise’ and ‘Eat the World’
Production & Sound Design: BlakCast Productions
Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm.
This podcast was supported (partially) by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Projects funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.
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