Accent of Women
287 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA program by and about women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
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Haboba's House
January 27, 2020 21:30 - 12.7 MBThis week we speak to writer and cultural producer Alia Gabres about her gorgeous children’s book, Haboba’s House.Haboba’s House tells the story of Iman - a young Eritrean girl staying at her Haboba’s (grandmother) House during the school holidays. It's the first book in Iman’s Really Really Big World! series.In this interview, Alia discusses the inspiration for Haboba’s House and explains why children of colour deserve to see themselves represented in books.To learn more about this exciting ...
Protest on Invasion Day!
January 20, 2020 21:30 - 11.3 MBJanuary 26. Australia Day. It marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson and the start of genocide against the original owners of this land. We should not celebrate Australia Day. It's a day that has been sanctified and sanitised. Instead, we should be protesting and fighting for land rights, sovereignty and self-determination for all Aboriginal people. This week's show features Celeste Liddle and Kim Bullimore
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home
January 13, 2020 21:30 - 38.2 MBAcross the Pacific and Torres Strait, rising seal levels are forcing many communities to seek a new home. And while climate change denialists bicker over the validity of the claims, people are being evacuated because their islands are uninhabitable.This week I chat to radio broadcaster Maureen Mopio about her documentary - No Land, No Livelihood, No Home.No Land, No Livelihood, No Home is a ten part series about what happens when communities are displaced by climate change. The series was di...
Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference
November 04, 2019 21:30 - 12.7 MBIn under 24 hours, a number of academics, community activists, artists and writers will gather at the University of Melbourne for a three day forum called ‘Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference’. To mark this historic event, I spoke to Irene Watson, a Professor of Law at the University of South Australia and Tasnim Sammak, a PHD candidate and an advocate for the rights of young people and women of colour.Produced by Ayan Shirwa
Alliance of MENA Socialists
October 28, 2019 21:30 - 25.6 MBOn today’s show we will broadcast just the first question of a panel discussion between women of colour involved in the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African socialists. You’ll hear when the compare introduces the panel, that the whole discussion goes for about two hours, but of course we don’t have time for all of it on Accent of Women. We will post a link to the whole call on our facebook page. The discussion took place in August 2019, which was at the height of the recent uprisings ...
State of Emergency in Chile
October 21, 2019 21:30 - 25.7 MBFor the first time since the fascist military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, tanks rolled into downtown Santiago, Chile, this weekend, deployed against protesters demonstrating against a drastic fare hike of the Santiago metro, from the equivalent of USD $1.12 to $1.16.On Saturday, the right-wing government of billionaire Sebastián Piñera invoked the still-standing 1980 Constitution established by Pinochet to declare a state of emergency across the country and to impose curfews.This is off...
Tamil refugees and 'Set The Tone'
October 14, 2019 21:30 - 12.7 MBThis week we look at the circumstances that bring Tamil refugees to Australia and in the second half of the show, two of the founders of the online talk show ‘Set The Tone’ discuss their pilot episode.GuestsNiro Kandasamy is a Tamil studies researcher at the University of Melbourne.Yar Biar and Adier Maluk are young women from the African diaspora and members of the platform Set the Tone.
Flesh, the law and black humanity
October 07, 2019 21:30 - 25.7 MBOn today’s program we continue with the broadcast of Flesh, the law and black humanity, that Ayan started on the program last week. Firstly, Flesh, the law and black humanity was an event hosted in Melbourne Victoria by the Feminist Book Collective, and particularly, by Nilmini Fernando, a Sri Lankan born woman living in Australia. According to the event description, Flesh, the law and black humanity aims to stand outside of white Western colonial frames to discuss, theorize and address the...
Trans and Gender Diverse communities + 'Flesh, the law, and black humanity’
September 30, 2019 22:30 - 12.7 MBThis week we look at some of the issues affecting trans and gender diverse communities in Australia and play a snippet from the event ‘Flesh, the law, and black humanity’.GuestsAmao Leota Lu is a proud Samoan Fa'afafine and trans woman of color. She is an international speaker, performing artist, writer, activist and storyteller who infuses the intersectionality of gender, culture and life experiences in her performance works and talks.Associate Professor Sandy O'Sullivan is a Wiradjuri (Abor...
Hong Kong needs revolutionary leadership
September 23, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBMassive civil society protests have continued in Hong Kong. Commencing on 9 June, we’ve seen millions of people march, originally against the introduction of the extradition bill, but now the movement has raised a number of demands including full suffrage for the people of Hong Kong. Accent of Women first covered this issue in June, and you can go back and listen to that podcast, which is posted to our page on 3CR’s website. Since that broadcast, much has happened in Hong Kong. We’ve seen the...
Assimilate
September 16, 2019 22:30 - 25.5 MBCreative producer Daisy Nduta talks about her exciting new show - Assimilate. Assimilate is showing at Darebin Arts as part of Melbourne Fringe 2019. Tickets can be purchased here. Assimilate was created and produced by Daisy Nduta and is performed by Naomi Sepiso, Tamara Bailey, Anyuop Dau, and Daisy Nduta.
writing from the margins
September 09, 2019 22:30 - 38.1 MBVeteran broadcaster Namila Benson talks ghost-writing, community radio, and Jack Charles.Later in the show, cultural historian Samia Khatun discusses the inspiration for her book - Australianama.GuestsNamila Benson is a broadcaster, media trainer and national radio producer who works across multiple media platforms. She got her start in radio 26 years ago on 3CR. Most recently, she ghostwrote the memoir of respected actor, activist and Elder - Uncle Jack Charles. The book is called, “Jack Cha...
East Timor's independence - 20 years on
September 02, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBAugust 30, 2019 commemorates 20 years since the East Timor referendum on independence. In 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, beginning a brutal regime of occupation that would last until 1999. More than 200,000 East Timorese died and many more suffered during massacres, torture and starvation.Carla Chung is an organiser with the United Workers Union, she is East Timorese, and an East Timor independence activist. She both grew up in East Timor and is one of the younger generation of activists...
Siege on Kashmir
August 26, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBThirteen million people in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have spent the last three weeks under a regime of extraordinary repression and collective punishment at the hands of India’s Hindu supremacist BJP government. Freedom of speech and assembly have been abolished, with gatherings of more than four people outlawed. Critics who have denounced the repression to the media have been imprisoned. Public transport has been shut down, and the region’s economy has ground to a halt. So, what i...
Let's Talk Love
August 19, 2019 22:30 - 12.7 MBWhat comes to mind when you hear the word love? Is it romantic relationships? Friendships? Self-love? Community? Arts and cultural curator Bigoa Choul joins us this week to make sense of a concept that is so polarizing. Today’s episode is inspired by an upcoming event called ‘Let's Talk Love’ hosted by Bigoa Chuol and featuring the contributors of 'Growing Up African in Australia'. The event is part of the Melbourne Writers Festival.Artist bio: Bigoa is an arts and cultural curator, writer an...
Decolonising Environmentalism
August 05, 2019 22:30 - 11.2 MBThe face of the environmentalism movement in Australia is predominantly white. Why is this the case and how can the movement expand to include all voices?The Multicultural Greens Victoria hosted a panel that tackled those exact questions. We also spoke to Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Green's Senator for NSW, about islamophobia, decolonisation and why she continues to speak out against misogyny and racism. Panelists- Dr. Priya Srinivasan, Associate Professor Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and G...
A Voice and a Treaty
July 22, 2019 22:30 - 11.2 MBThe Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, recently announced plans to introduce an Indigenous voice to parliament. Some embraced the news as a positive step towards self-determination, while others were more skeptical.On today's episode we ask Gunnai-Kurnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpewhat she thinks about an Indigenous voice to parliament, and also get updates on Victoria’s exciting treaty negotiations. Lidia Thorpe is a human rights advocate and a former greens MP for the s...
Aboriginal Stolen Wages supposed settlement
July 15, 2019 22:30 - 25.8 MBNAIDOC week was 8 to 15 July. This week on Accent of Women, we bring you the voices of Aboriginal women in struggle. In the second part of the show, we play an exerpt from a public meeting held at Victoria’s Trades Hall. The public meeting was called Fighting for Black issues in a White Democracy.But first up on the show, the landmark announcement about the Stolen Wages settlement. A class action on behalf of an estimated 10,000 Indigenous workers in Queensland who had their wages stolen last...
Rwandan Genocide and Fighting for Black Issues in a White Democracy
July 08, 2019 22:30 - 12.7 MBIn 1994, close to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives in the Rwandan Genocide. We commemorate the 25th anniversary by bringing you stories of hope and resilience. In the second half of the program, you'll hear a snippet of the event Fighting for Black Issues in a White Democracy , organised by First Nations Workers Alliance and Victorian Trades Hall Council .
Uprisings in Hong Kong
June 17, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBTwo million people took to the streets in Hong Kong last week and they were joined by the organsied labour movement days later, in a general strike on Monday 19 June, in massive protests opposing a proposed extradition bill. These are the biggest protests in Hong Kong with approximately 2 thirds of the entire city participating.But what is the extradition bill, and why has this proposal brought so many people to the streets? What do these demonstrations say about Hong Kong’s relationship to C...
Sudan's Uprising and AFP raids
June 10, 2019 22:30 - 14.3 MBRai Ismail and Abuk Nyandeng discuss Sudan's uprising & Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, the managing editor at Crikey, looks at last week's AFP raids and their implications for press freedom
Stop the genocide in Yemen
June 03, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBYemen is being described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, but hardly anyone knows or understands what’s going on. The Houthi movement, an Islamic religious-political-armed movement that emerged from Sa'dah in northern Yemen in the 1990s, took the capital, Sana’a in 2014. But who are they are? Is the war about them? To discuss this issue and the complexity of the Yemen war and catastrophic humanitarian crisis, I am joined by Kamillia el-Eriani. Kamillia is originally from Yemen a...
Siblings of the Yam
May 27, 2019 22:30 - 12.7 MBThis week we bring you some interesting conversations about healing, self-compassion, and healthy egos.These conversations were part of the Siblings of the Yam workshops organized by Aisha Tramabas and Inez Tramabas of Negro Speaks of Books.The workshops are part of a month-long series called Black Tourmaline.
10 year anniversary of the Tamil genocide
May 20, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBMay 18 is the anniversary of the Tamil genocide and the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This year, 2019, marks 10 years. On today’s program, we look at the situation for Tamils in Sri Lanka.On today's program, Nilanthi Kanapathipillai, a Tamil activist based here in Melbourne Victoria. and Shivani Jegarajah, human rights activist and barrister in Sri Lanka.
Samsung's Union Busting in South Korea
May 13, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBSamsung is a vehemently anti-union company. It has avoided all attempts to be held to account for the occupational deaths in its factory, a direct result of the chemicals used in the production of microchips that go into its electronic products.A compensation claim that is currently before the courts accidentally revealed that Samsung has been running surveillance on unionists and activists as a part of their union-busting campaign.To talk about all of this, on today’s program I am joined by ...
Repression against women in Iran on May Day
May 06, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBInternational Workers Day – May Day, is both celebrated used as a day of continuing struggle right across the world. In some parts of the world, taking to the streets is, in itself, an act of dissent and of resistance, and workers risk their lives just doing that. Iran is one such country where workers’ organising is heavily and brutally repressed. Hana is a labour movement activist, originally from Iran and now based in melbourne, victoria. She has recently returned from Iran and on today’s ...
Sovereignty, Treaty and Constitutional Recognition
April 29, 2019 22:30 - 12.8 MBThis week we listen to a panel discussion hosted by Allies Decolonising.The event, Sovereignty, Treaty and Constitutional Recognition brought together Aboriginal community members to discuss the treaty process and Aboriginal sovereignty. PanelistsLidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne’s north. She is a community worker, mother and grandmother. Lidia has spent decades fighting for Aboriginal rights and the environment, including fighting to succes...
Trans Day of Visibility
April 08, 2019 22:30 - 25.6 MBMarch 31st is Trans Day of Visibility, so today on Accent of Women, we are going to hand over to Sally Goldner, and her show Out of The Pan. On Sunday 31 March, Out of The Pan held a special, Trans Voices of Colour, and that’s what we bring you today.
Women of Colour Speak Out on Climate Change
March 25, 2019 21:30 - 25.6 MBWomen of Color Speak Out is a collective of five climate justice, racial justice, gender justice and intersectional movement activists that came together in 2015 in Seattle during the ShellNo campaign. Those women formed Women of Colour Speak Out, out of a desire to create a space for women of color in the climate movement which, according to them, is dominated by white, cis men. In December 2015, they spoke at a public meeting.On today’s show, we feature the speeches of Sarra Tekola, scienti...
Community Activators
February 25, 2019 21:30 - 12.7 MBThis week we speak to Abbey Mag and Awak Kongor about their contributions to the South Sudanese community in Melbourne and the ethical risks of creating for/about community.Abbey Mag is a proud Dinka Bor woman of Junub Sudan, now formally known as South Sudan. Abbey’s interest lay in the use of social media and how it can be utilised as means of telling stories and changing narrative. Awak Rech Kongor is a South Sudanese young black woman in Narrm, Melbourne Victoria. She is the founder of Pr...
Defy Your Destiny
February 18, 2019 21:30 - 25.7 MBOn today’s program, we speak with Fiori Giovanni motivational speaker, social commentator, and author of the about to be released life memoir, Defy Your Destiny. Fiori is a woman who uses her own story of survival to help others. Born in war torn Eritrea, in north east Africa, Fiori defies a destiny of being a child bride, being a child soldier, and eventually being a refugee, to make it in Australia.
Hands Off Venezuela!
February 11, 2019 21:30 - 25.6 MBOn January 23, the US government sponsored a political coup in Venezuela, with right-wing politician Juan Guaidó’s self-swearing in as “interim president,” a stunt worked out in advance with the Trump administration. Washington immediately recognized Guaidó, an operative of the extreme right, US-funded Voluntad Popular party, who had been suddenly elevated to the presidency of the opposition-controlled National Assembly on the eve of the coup. The Trump administration at the same time declare...
7 Days of Resistance - Decolonising Solidarity - What Can I Do?
January 28, 2019 21:30 - 12.8 MBA recording of a fundraiser organised by Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance. The panel, Decolonising Solidarity - what can i do, was part of WAR's 7 days of resistance campaign.Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Tanya Day's family in the lead up to the Deaths in Custody trial in March. PanelistsCaroline Martin is a descendant of the Briggs family and Custodian of Boonwurrung Country, and the 2019 Creative Director of the Yirramboi Festival. Crystal Mckinnon is Yamatji woman and resear...
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance
January 21, 2019 21:30 - 11.9 MBMeriki Onus, is from the Gunai and Gunditjmara nations and one of the co-founders of Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR).Meriki discusses the Invasion Day Rally and the legacy of Aboriginal activism. Check out WAR's website - Invasion Day, for information about events, resources and how to donate/support.
International Day of People with Disability
December 03, 2018 21:30 - 25.6 MBInternational Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) is held on 3 December each year. This year’s theme is ‘Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality’. To mark this important date, Marisa Sposaro spoke to Jiselle Hanna about meaningful inclusion, self-determination and the accessibility of activist spaces. Marisa Sposaro, is a broadcaster at Community Radio 3CR, and produces a radio show called Doin Time about prisoner rights and advocacy.
Accent of Women - Naarm Imagining Abolition
November 26, 2018 21:30 - 12.7 MBAyan Shirwa sits in on a debriefing session organized by Naarm Imagining Abolition.Naarm Imagining Abolition was organized by Meriki Onus and Idil Ali to address the inequity of capital. Through a series of fundraisers they were able to send a group of young people to Brisbane for the Imagining Abolition Conference organised by Sisters Inside.
Accent of Women - Free Speech and Social Media
November 05, 2018 21:30 - 12.2 MBCan you say whatever you want on social media? On today's program I chat to Tarneen Onus about the cost of speaking out against instituional racism. Later in the show Areej Nur sits down with me to make sense of our rights and responsibilities on Facebook.Areej Nur is a radio producer and educator Tarneen Onus is a Yigar Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Bindal and Torres Strait Islander. She has been a sexual health and consent educator, social worker, activist and rally organizer. Interview by Ayan...
Accent of Women - For Us By Us
September 24, 2018 22:30 - 12.9 MBFor Us By UsThis episode is a recording of a keynote speech by Antoinette Braybrook, who's an Aboriginal woman and the CEO of Djirra. Antoinette spoke at the Tranforming Democracy conference organized by the Federation of Community Legal Centres. Antoinette discusses why Aboriginal led organizations are better placed to address complex and multilayered issues like family violence. Content warning :This episode contains descriptions of torture, sexual violence, rape, phsyical violence and ment...
Equal Pay for Early Childhood Educators
September 10, 2018 22:30 - 12.4 MBOn today’s episode of Accent of Women, we look at the leading causes of gender inequality in the Australian workplace and why female dominated sectors are underpaid.We speak to Kara Keyes, the Australian Council of Trade Union’s Campaign Director, and Achut, who is an early childhood educator in Victoria.If you want to know more information about the Change the Rules Campaign, go to https://changetherules.org.au/Music: http://www.purple-planet.com
Schools not Prisons
August 20, 2018 22:30 - 13.5 MBThis week on Accent of Women we speak with Corallanne Pohlman, a proud Murri woman from Far North Queensland. Corallanne is a Youth Justice Worker in custodial settings whose late ADHD diagnosis as a young adult led her to question the effectiveness of the current education system for Aboriginal children.Corallanne looks at the way the current schooling system impacts Aboriginal children and reimagines a radical approach to education.
Stop racist reporting
August 06, 2018 22:30 - 12.3 MBOn today’s episode of Accent, we ask the old adage: can sticks and stones break our bones?We look at the impact biased reporting has had on African youth in Australia. We also speak to Amy Maquire, a Darumbal/South Sea journalist and researcher about anti-blackness and lessons African communities can learn from First Nation people.
Newstart - is it a liveable wage?
July 23, 2018 22:30 - 12.4 MBIs Newstart a new beginning?On today’s episode of Accent, we ask, does Newstart allowance provide for a basic living wage - or should the payment be raised to meet the changing living standards.To help us understand the challenges faced by job seekers on Newstart allowance, we spoke to Gemma Mahadeo, a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Gemma's family emigrated from England to Australia in 1987. She's a committee member for the Women's Melbourne Network, and has performed her work with the...
New Trade Union Law Cambodia
April 16, 2018 22:30 - 25.6 MBThe Cambodian Food and Service Workers’ Federation has a newly elected President – Ou Tep Phallin who was formerly herself a beer promotions worker. Listeners might recall the major campaign run back in 2016, in defence of women in teh beer promotions industry in Cambodia – this is where women are required to encourage tourists in night clubs to keep drinking, and are compelled to drink themselves, putting them in very dangerous situations.
Stolenwealth not Commonwealth
April 09, 2018 22:30 - 25.6 MBThe British Empire is again celebrating it’s world wide colonial conquests in the form of the Commonwealth Games, currently underway on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Indigenous activists and their supporters are conducting a protest campaign against the Commonwealth Games, under the title of the “Stolenwealth Games”. They are demanding land rights and recognition that Aboriginal sovereignty has never been ceded.
Palestinians and the Great Return March
April 02, 2018 22:30 - 25.6 MBIsraeli troops killed at least 15 Palestinians and injured more than 1,400 on Friday 30 March, during demonstrations along Gaza’s border with Israel and in cities throughout the Palestinian enclave. The demonstrations were scheduled to take place for six weeks along the border of Gaza, and have been called the “Great Return March”. This area has been subject to an 11 year illegal blockade by Israel and Egypt. Today's program features visiting Palestinian activist and militant, Huwaida Arraf.
The economic crisis in Venezuela
March 26, 2018 21:30 - 25.7 MBOn today’s program, we look at the economic crisis in Venezuela. Despite the billions of dollars available to Venezuela because of its oil industry, the country is in the throes of an economic crisis, resulting from US sanctions. Venezuela is heavily dependent on food imports just to feed the population. The media is reporting that hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the country into neighbouring Brazil and Colombia, in order just to eat.On today’s program, I speak with visiting activ...
No War on Syria
March 12, 2018 21:30 - 25.6 MBEastern Ghouta, located just east of Damascus, has become the recent focus of a fierce offensive by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Health officials have also accused the Syrian government of using chlorine gas in their aerial bombardment campaign on Eastern Ghouta. The UN has called the situation in the enclave "hell on earth". Mariam Salameh, one of the women that has been organising rallies and marches in defence of the Syrian people is featured on today's program.
Manufacturing a gang crisis
February 26, 2018 21:30 - 25.7 MBToday on Accent of Women, we revisit the issue of African gangs and the vilification of Sudanese youth by the conservative media, and the Victorian state opposition.We feature the voice of Sudanese community campaigner, Nawal Ali, addressing a public meeting in Flemington – a western Melbourne suburb with a large Sudanese community. And then in the second part of the show, we revisit our interview with Sajda Yaccoub from the Peer Advocacy Team of the Police Accountability Project at Flemingto...
Opium of the masses
February 12, 2018 21:30 - 25.7 MBThis week's Accent of Women looks at apostasy – the practice of changing or leaving your religion.Apostasy is a critical demand for the international workers movement – it goes to the heart of collective consciousness, especially working class consciousness. It is about breaking the chains of religion that suppress and oppress, particularly women.But it is also an extremely difficult conversation to have, in this political climate. Atheism and the rejection of religion entirely, arises with s...
Defend Public Housing
February 05, 2018 21:30 - 25.7 MBOn Today’s Accent of Women, we will learn more about the Labor Victorian government’s plans in relation to the Public Housing Renewal project, and the social impacts that this will have.We hear from Yasemin Shamsili of the Public Housing Defence Network and Ayan Mohamud, a community activist and public housing tenant