Society & Culture
As more people than ever before begin to grapple with systemic racism around the world, we’re seeing organisations, institutions and even entire industries being rightly held accountable for their racist past and present. To mark our first one hour show on FBi Radio, we reflect on the long, painful road to get Race Matters to where it is today. Plus – last week, as part of a collective of Filipinx-Australian writers, poet Eunice Andrada penned an open letter to Australian arts journal Verity La following their publication of a creative non-fiction piece deemed by many (including now, the journal itself) to be racist and misogynistic. We chat to Eunice about institutional critique and accountability in the literary world, as well as her work co-organising online Filipinx literary festival The Digital Sala. Content warning: this interview contains mentions of sexual exploitation, sex tourism and abuse.