Saharawi Resistance, Racerage, Sex Workers and My Health Record, Manus Recording Project Collective, Raquel Willis: Transgender Rights Activist.

Thursday, 17 January 2019 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018

Acknowledgement of Country

Gabby Alamin, Saharawi member of Australian Western Sahara Association, talks about Morocco's colonisation of the Saharawi people and the film Rifles or Graffiti

Racerage, an emerging politi-cute queer post-internet rapper based on Wurundjeri country.

Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers. NOTE since the interview the OPT OUTperiod has been extended to Jan 31st  2019

Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co- founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' which was on  the Ian Potter Museum of Art In 2018

Raquel Willis. African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist, Raquel Willis was in Melbourne town for FLCC’s Transforming Democracy 2018  and joined 3CR Breakfast  over a number of weeks for a broad discussion of rights including colonisation, race, gender and abolition.  At the time of interview she was a national organizer for the Transgender Law Center. Raquel is now the executive editor of Out Magazine

(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music tracks - removed owing to no music license for podcasting)

SONG: Cheikh Lo Degg Gui feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi, Cheiko Lo

SONG: Racerage: Burn

SONG: Racerage: Violence and Sapphires

SONG : The Merindas  - We Sing Until Sunrise

SONG: Sophiegrophy Purple Swag