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Race Matters.

You're listening to Race Matters on FBI Radio and across the country on the Community Radio Network and on Koori Radio.

This is a show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture, and identity.

My name is King.

This land has been in the hands of generations of Gadigal custodians for thousands of years before us, and it will continue to be in their hands long after us.

It's a meeting place for sharing knowledge, stories and song.

And we are privileged to be part of that storytelling today and every day on FBI radio.

I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present.

Hello, everyone.

You're listening to Race Matters on FBI Radio and across the country on the Community Radio Network and on Koori Radio.

This is a show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture, and identity.

My name is Tim.

and it will continue to be their land long after us.

That's right.

It's a meeting place for sharing knowledge, stories, and song, and we are privileged to be part of that storytelling today and every day at FBI Radio.

I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present.

Proudly supported by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

You're listening to All The Best from FBI Radio 94.5. I'm Gabriella Accaria.

A few weeks ago, we featured one of our five audio corpses, a challenge where producers had 48 hours to make a three-minute story in response to 10 seconds of the previous person's story.

I was born with a little red fish on the back of my hand.

This time, maybe something more wholesome, like stitching, because an audio corpse is like an audio tapestry made with many hands.

The line of the stitch in the stories is a reminder that we're all connected.

And I want to start by acknowledging that we're connected to Stolen and Gadigal land by broadcasting here from FBI Radio in Redfern.

I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present, and also recognise that the area where FBI Radio is situated has long been a place of storytelling, strength, resistance and resilience for First Nations communities.

You're listening to All The Best from FBI Radio 94.5. I'm Gabriela Acarillo.

Do you like scary stories? This week, we gather around the campfire with a torch to our face and tell spooky stories.

But before we get into this week's stories, I want to acknowledge that I'm recording from stolen and Gadigal land, and I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present.

I also recognise that the area where FBI Radio is situated, Redfern, has long been a place of storytelling, strength, resistance and resilience for First Nations communities.

I'm sure a lot of us as kids were told to be scared of monsters under your bed.

As a kid, I was drawn to them.

I'm like, I'm not doing that.

You could be having, like, I don't know, like a heart attack or something like that.

This place is a meeting place for sharing knowledge, stories, and song.

And I want to, I guess, carry that into the storytelling that we do here at FBI Radio every day, and especially today.

And so I would like to pay my respects to the Gadigal elders of past and present and Red Fern historically is, you know, a place of black theatre, of storytelling as an act of resistance and radio is not divorced from that context and is in fact fundamental to that context.

Date, what are we covering on today's episode?

And speaking of Australia from the Cold Meat band there, and related to the themes of Funding Drive, I just wanted to share a fun little story about the power of community radio online.

About two summers ago, I went to Italy with some friends, and at a hostel in Florence, I met a lovely person named Tanya, who is a radio host at FBI Radio in Sydney, Australia.

And like CJSW, FBI Radio is also an independent, not-for-profit community radio station.

And I don't know, it felt so crazy in such a small world that in that moment, so far from both of our homes...

We just had this instant connection over community radio.

You're listening to All The Best from FBI Radio 94.5, proudly supported by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

I'm Gabriela Acario.

For the month of October, we've been sharing stories from the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship, which is an incredible initiative that honours Jesse Cox's legacy.

It's a meeting place for sharing knowledge, stories, and song.

And we're privileged to be part of that storytelling today and every day at FBI Radio.

I pay my respects to Gadigal elders past and present.

We're broadcasting from Redfern right now, the birthplace of black theatre, where sovereign organising and art-making serves as preservation of black culture and ways of knowing, and a site for resistance and resilience for First Nations peoples.