Women on the Line

This week on Women on the Line we chat to Inez Trambas about Negro Speaks of Books. Negro Speaks of Books is an online platform created to host conversations about books written by authors of Colour. Taking its name from the poem ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ by Langston Hughes, Negro Speaks of Books celebrates the diversity of Bla(c)k literature across the Diaspora, and recognises the necessity of...

On this episode of Women on the Line we look at the recent Trump legislation SESTA/FOSTA and how it impacts sex workers and internet censorship. We chat with Daisy who is the co-founder of All Sex Workers Go To Heaven (ASWGTH) and Sandy who who is a cam model and freelance artist who has studied performance and video art. They chat with us about representation of sex workers on the internet, in fe...

Medically Supervised Injecting Centres have been proven to be an effective way of preventing deaths from from drug overdoses, and helping people to access safe injecting equipment and support services. Late last year a trial of a medically supervised injecting centre for North Richmond in Melbourne was announced by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and is due to start in June this year. This week o...

Mental health advocates have increasingly called for the need to reinstate female-only psychatric wards. These campaigns are about improving the safety and experience of women in crisis, including reducing incidents of sexual assault. This week’s edition of Women on the Line features an interview by Hope Mathumbu with Prof of Psychiatry Jayashri Kulkarni, director of the Monash Alfred Psychiatry R...

On this week's Women on the Line we head to the Bay Area in California and Hong Kong to hear from two artists chat about zines, DIY culture, and making art in their respective hometowns. Multidisciplinary artist and curator Renae Moua chats with us about their art practice, DIY culture, their teaching philosophy and zines! Later in the show, we hear from Elaine W.Ho who chats to us about 展銷場 Di...

On Women on the Line we look into the language of distance. How do we navigate both visible and invisible borders? Where is home and who gets to feel at home? We chat with artist and curator Talia Smith about her upcoming exhibition,I Can See for Miles, held at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Later in the show, we hear from artist Lana Nguyen who walks across invisible borders everyday. S...

Today on Women on the Line, we look at some research that’s being done in the space of revenge porn, more accurately labelled, image based abuse. Recent research has found that one in five australians has experienced image based abuse, mostly in an online environment. 20 per cent had experienced the non-consensual creation of nude or sexual images11 per cent had experienced the non-consensual dist...

Her Sound, Her Story is a documentary about the personal experiences, histories, and the significant social impact of women in the music industry across Australia, featuring many well-known names and influential artists. Made by Michelle Grace Hunder and Claudia Sangiorigi Dalimore,Claudia joins us for Women on the Line this week to tell us how it's made and what she learned from the process. Late...

On this week's Women on the Line we chat with Annie Humphrey, Anishinaabe singer and song writer living on Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Annie chats with us about her latest album "The Beast and the Garden", music and activism, the impact of line 3 pipeline on Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and whether or not she has hope for the future. You can listen and support her latest album at anniehumphre...

This week we bring you a very special episode of Women on the Line featuring selections from our annual fundraiser held in late 2017 at the Yarra Hotel in Melbourne. You’ll hear from musicians and poets who performed in support of the show, including P-Unique, Soreti, Manisha Anjali, Infraghosts and Hardata. P-UniQue https://soundcloud.com/p-uniqueSoreti https://www.facebook.com/soretik/Manisha An...

Today on Women on the Line, highlights from the Melbourne Invasion Day Rally. The 26th January, 2018 saw some of the biggest rallies across Australia in solidarity, defence and struggle with Aboriginal people.  You’ll hear the following voices, in this order:Aunty Jenny Monroe, Gwenda Stanley, Aretha Brown, Ruby and Celeste Liddle

We speak to Rasheedah Phillips and Moor Mother from Black Quantum Futurism about the intersections of justice and science fiction as well as the beauty of community building through an Afrofuturist lens. Moor Mother - KBGK

As we move into 2018, and the dust settles on the Marriage Equality Bill which has now moved into law, and a few more wedding bells have started ringing, this week’s show looks to what’s next for LGBTIQ plus communities across Australia, and the campaigns, struggles and celebrations ahead. We speak to Karen Field from Queerspace on future health campaigns for LGBTIQ+ communities, highlighting link...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Australian -founded International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Norway on International Human Rights Day on December 10th. Australian campaigners and supporters gathered in Melbourne Town Hall to celebrate and watch the ceremony. In this week’s show, we’ll first hear from The Nobel Prize chairperson Berit Reiss-Andersen. 3CR’s Judith Peppard th...

Palestinian activist Mai Hamed helps us unpack the recent statement US President Donald Trump made about Jerusalem becoming the capital of Israel. This statement was met with outrage from European and Arab leaders for its boldness, carelessness and the danger is poses. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movementAustralians for Palestine Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh - Shadia Mansour

On this episode of Women on the Line, Thanh Hằng Phạm chats with Odissi dancer and teacher Monica Singh Sangwan and her student, Yee Wen Soo about classical indian dance, passing on tradition and knowledge and how a classical indian art form should grow beyond its origins. Monica Singh Sangwan teaches the Sohamasi Odissi dance group at Dancehouse in Carlton. Catch the Sohamasi group's upcoming per...

As part of programming for International Day of Disabled Persons 2017 which falls this week, artist Larissa Mac Farlane joins me by phone to talk about disability and art practice, disability pride as practice and the hidden joys of handstanding and grandstanding. To see her work, see larissamcfarlane.blogspot.com.au. Music from this week's show is by Heidi Everett, http://www.heidieverett.com.au/

On this episode of Women on the Line Thanh Hằng Phạm chats to Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and writer Paola Balla on blak matriachy and powerful blak women making art. We also hear from Māori (Waikato, Tainui A Whiro, Ngaati Tahinga) artist Kirsten Lyttle on indigenizing photography and weaving.*Artwork "Twilled Work" by Kirsten Lyttle 

This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution – a momentous event in human history. In 1917, Russian women garment workers went on strike. They were protesting the desperate poverty caused by the first World War, symbolised in the infamous bread queues. On International Women’s Day, March 8, before the morning was out, tens of thousands of women textile workers were on strike....

New media has been central in modern activism, especially for people of colour who continue to be misrepresented and under represented by mainstream media. We listen to a panel discussion about the prominence of new media in asserting the voices of people of colour from Footscray Community Arts Centre's, 2015 West Writers: Our Stories Forum. We hear from founding editor of Future-Black Linda Kenne...

On today’s program, we bring you some coverage from the2017 Indigenous and Grass roots Movements Solidarity Gathering. The conference was held in Melbourne Australia, over the weekend of 7 & 8 October, and was hosted by the Latin American Solidarity Network. The two keynote speakers featured on today’s program, are Kristy Lee Horswood - Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) activist and memb...

We hear two incredibly fascinating and insightful interviews put together by 3CR’s Tuesday Breakfast team, Ayan Shirwa, Ruby Schwartz and George Maxwell. We first hear from Julie Kun, CEO of WIRE which is a women’s referral service in Victoria. Later we hear from Emma Barnard, who is conducting her PhD at the University of Melbourne on Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery.   She - Laura Mvula

Australia is in the midst of a Marriage Equality postal survey – asking the whole of Australia their opinion about whether people of the same sex are allowed to love each other. The Left and other civil rights activists are mobilising our forces to pull out a Yes vote, so the campaign is on! As would be expected, the campaign has been attacked by the right, but there are also some criticisms of th...

January 26, known officially as Australia Day, marks the beginning of the European colonisation of what would become known as Australia. While the date is celebrated as Australia's national day, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people January 26 holds the significance of marking the beginning of the invasion and theft of their lands by colonisers, and for many indigenous people the day is...

This week we chat with the inimitable Manal Younus about her work as a writer, educator and performer. We also chat about her upcoming collaborative show 'AMKA - Narratives from the African Diaspora' which is a "journey of being, becoming and existence" that uses spoken word, music, dance, theatre and projection to explore the "awakening of black bodies" from the African diaspora in Australia. AMK...