This week on Let’s Talk Black Arts, Rachael catches up with proud Birpai, Dunghutti and Kamilaroi architectural designer, editor and artist, Georgia Birks. Georgia is passionate about art, architecture and design. She has written a number of reviews, curated industry conferences, participated as a guest university critic and lecturer, and has been a guest speaker on podcasts and panels across...

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Get ready for episode 3 of Let’s Talk Black Culture with your host, Nunukal, Ngugi, and Goenpul (Quandamooka) woman, Elizabeth Walker. If you’ve been listening to the series so far, you’ll know that Elizabeth has been talking culture & Country with her Dad – her first teacher – Joshua Walker. In the first two episodes, we learned a bit more about the power of kinship lore in guiding and protecting...

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Tune in for our monthly Black Power round-up with Ruby & Kevin, as they reflect on some of the big political questions of this moment. They talk through some of Ruby’s recent episodes, including the powerful two-part interview with Amatus & Beri from the Free West Papua movement here in so-called brisbane. They talk through the upsurge in radical political organising in this moment...

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Listen in this morning as Chelsea & David bring you the second part of their conversation with the iconic Aboriginal writer, songman, and scholar, Uncle Joe Geia. Last week, we heard a bit about Uncle Joe’s early life, and his experience growing up in the shadow of the Protection Acts in so-called Queensland. This week, we learn more about what drives his writing and storytelling practice...

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Tune in for another episode of Let’s Talk Black Arts with Rachael Sarra, as Rachael catches up with film-maker, photographer and Triple A icon, Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs. For this special ANZAC day edition of the show, Rachael & Siena begin by reflecting on the continuing erasure of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s contributions in wartime. Siena shares some of her Grandfather’s...

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Tune in for episode 2 of our brand new series – Let’s Talk Black Culture – hosted by the inimitable Nunukal, Ngugi, and Goenpul (Quandamooka) woman, poet, MC, cultural facilitator, model & public speaker, Elizabeth Walker. In this week’s show, Elizabeth and Joshua pick up where they left off last week, reflecting on the ways that kinship systems stretch far beyond human relations to encompass...

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Tune in this week as Ruby picks up where she left off last week with a rich and wide-ranging interview with Amatus Akouboo Douw & Beri Pahabol. Last week on the show, we heard from Amatus about the history of colonisation and resource extraction in West Papua, and the ongoing struggle for West Papuan freedom. This week, Beri and Amatus give us a bit more context for the current atrocities being...

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Tune in this morning as Chelsea & David bring you the first part of their rich and wide-ranging conversation with the iconic Aboriginal songman, Uncle Joe Geia. This beautiful conversation draws on Uncle Joe’s long-standing career as a musician and songwriter, and the role that his songs have played in shaping generations of Black Knowers. Chelsea and David learn a little about Uncle Joe’s early...

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Tune in today as Rachael catches up with Wiradjuri, Scottish, & Czech person, and long term resident of Papua New Guinea, Anna Borzi to learn about the First Nations Writers Festival and the work they’re doing to amplify Indigenous writers across the Pacific. Anna tells us a bit about the origins of the First Nations Writers Festival, and what makes her passionate about building spaces for...

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Welcome to our brand new series – Let’s Talk Black Culture – with our incredible new host: Nunukal, Ngugi, and Goenpul (Quandamooka) woman, poet, MC, cultural facilitator, model & public speaker, Elizabeth Walker. To introduce this new series, Elizabeth takes us across the bay to her country, Quandamooka country, to sit in the sand and talk culture, care, and kinship with her first teacher...

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Tune in for the first part of a special 2-part series on the ongoing struggle in West Papua. This week, Ruby catches up with Amatus Akouboo Douw to learn a bit more about the ongoing struggle to Free West Papua. Amatus introduces us to the history of West Papua and the long history of colonial invasion and occupation that West Papuans have endured. He talks us through the legacy and power of...

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