Thursday 8th July 2021

7:15am - We hear an excerpt from the 2021 Emerging Writers' Festival Late Night Literature: Imagining Abolitionist Futures event. The event is hosted by Nayuka and Witt Gorrie. We hear poetry from Flick Smith, and poetry & prose by Ashleigh Chapman and Stacey Stokes which is recited by Nayuka & Witt Gorrie. Rosalina Curtis also shares her story about growing up in the Northern Territory. 

7:30am - We hear a speech by Shams Moussa, a Palestinian activist, from the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July. 

7:45am - Tony Green & Neithan Newton from Dardi Munwurro join us to speak about their new show, Strong Spirit that airs on 3CR every Monday from 1pm. This show features interviews with community members from a First Nations perspectives and focuses on having discussions about cultural healing and inter-generational trauma. 

8:00am - Fayen d’Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country, Australia. Her projects are often collaborative, and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks. Fayen joins us to talk about her solo exhibition opening at West Space this saturday 10th July. The exhibition is titled "We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates…" Online elements of the exhibition can be found here.

8:15am - Yves Rees, writer, podcaster and historian based at La Trobe University, joins us to speak about the recently released special issue of Bent St journal, 'Soft Borders, Hard Edges'. This issue, co-edited with Sam Elkin and Tiffany Jones, contains a collection of pieces by members of the trans and gender diverse community. Soft Borders, Hard Edges is available widely online, as well as at Hares and Hyenas in Fitzroy and The Bookshop Darlinghurst.

Songs 

Indigenous land - Drmngnow 

Smoking Ceremony - Skinnyfish Sound System, B2m, Birdz, Tasman Keith