Every 10 minutes, Australians throw away 15 tonnes of fashion waste on the planet. This amounts to 800,000 tons per individual a year. With the increase in buying and producing fashion products, about 148 million tonnes of fashion waste is expected by 2030. This is fuelled by a relentless pursuit of up-to-datedness but is being…
Featured February 25th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Suleiman Thomas •Saphire Gaskas • Anna Royals • Dress by Eudeamonnia The product pride and artistry And craftsmanship that used to be Are vanishing before our eyes As trash today’s consumer buys. Creations that are works of art In modern commerce have no part. To businesses their sole concern Is how much profit will it…
Racism is more entrenched and systemic than most of us realise. Using a range of practical case studies, Jonathan shows how Australia’s white supremacist history continues to influence present-day political, legal and cultural institutions. Mainstream conversations about racism too often focus on overt bigotry, rather than covert structural oppression. The deeper issues are ignored and…
During the 90’s and leading into the early 2000’s, there was a society wide expectation that racism was largely over. Although many forms of explicit racism had vanished from the primary social view, racism still occurred and occurs in the realms where its most damaging effects manifested; economic and cultural. The banishing of explicit iconographic racism should be seen…
Featured January 26th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Alain Pottier • Joey • Violet Spencer • IIluka • • Dress & jewellery by Paul McCann We see the land, we see inside, our dreams show the light that you tried to hide. The rain has gone, trees are on fire, the Black Cockatoo is lost to the choir. Our blood runs through rivers, our…
This episode takes a look at the origins of race and the building of a caste system in the US based largely on the lessons from Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontent”. During a time when race-based science and the eugenics movement were becoming mainstream, they sought to prove that race…
This episode uncovers the economic side of systemic racism in the United States throughout history and how it led to the uncomfortable reality where Blacks in America have been locked out of every period of wealth accumulation by design. The show also challenges conventional economic wisdom within the Black community and draws a conclusion that…
To understand and eradicate racist thinking, start at the beginning. That’s what journalist and documentarian John Biewen did, leading to a trove of surprising and thought-provoking information on the “origins” of race. He shares his findings, supplying answers to fundamental questions about racism — and lays out an exemplary path for practicing effective allyship.
Featured October 27th 2022 • Jaya Prisco • Alain Pottier • Kahlii Morrison •Saphire Gaskas • Yalani Johnson • Anna Royals • Barasa Remijò • We see a person that dresses different,Not something we would wear,Their music is strange to our earsAnd they have to us weird hair! The words they use make no sense,So we think it must be wrong,They don’t conform to our attitude,So…
I grew up as a non-white, Australian. Specifically, I grew up as a South Korean, Asian. I have to say this was an odd experience. Australia is a known multicultural society that values a fair go for everyone and generally has disdain for overt and explicit racism, like most other western countries. Despite this, I grew up…