Episodes
Published 09/23/24
Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 15 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani replayed Abolition in Community Practice - a conversation between Crystal, Loz, Witt, Tarneen and Anne-lise. Monday 24h June 11pm on 3CR 855am. Broadcasted on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people.
Published 06/24/24
Who will save the west from itself?Readings-Bhagat Singh-The Jail Notebook and other writingsChinua Achebe-Things Fall ApartAgainst White Feminism-Rafia ZakariaAmericannah-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Extra readings (not read on radio)Safe Haven-Shankari Chandran  Music-Paper Planes- MIAWhen You Come Back-Vusi MahlaselaMatalib-SammanyA piece of ground-Miriam MakebaMidnight Blues-Emily Wurramara
Published 05/06/24
Mia will be stepping back from presenting, at least for a little bit /3Tune in to their final show, a journey through the feelings that come up with goodbyes ~ those small and frequent endings that can stir bigger things within us :’)
Published 04/29/24
Published 04/01/24
Episode 10 of Halcyon Daze, a show about living in the end times.Tonight, Mia takes a break, and L takes the reigns, sharing some of their favourite punk, post-punk and rock tunes. DIY music for the end of the world.Enjoy 3
Published 03/25/24
This one's for everyone who feels like giving up.
Published 02/19/24
Lina is Lina and The Ali Family is its own Ali Family, From Hyderabad to Hyderabad House in Harris Park Sydney, Lina shares her experience of being a Muslim Indian Australian Woman.  Lina shares “I grew up one time of my life erasing all Indian and Australian part of my identity to be Muslim, that didn’t work. Even then it wasn’t good enough. And then you do that with the Indian part and then it’s still not good enough. Then you do it with the Australian part and they still for the life of...
Published 01/22/24
وطن/ watan (Homeland)  In this episode of Writing Home, Madhvi and Belal share their reflections on resistance and revolution, revisiting poems and music of resistance.  Mahmoud Darwish writes “Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.”  Poets-Mahmoud Darwish, Maya Angelou, Rafeef Ziadah, Noor Hindi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Hanan...
Published 11/20/23
Mia welcomes former presenter and all-round legend Bridget Chappell aka @hextape.wav back to the airwaves ~~ sharing a guest mix featuring favourite p.al.estin.ian tunes.
Published 11/13/23
Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 14 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani replay the online launch of Incendium Radical Library (IRL infoshop) Prison Solidarity Network. We hear from Steph, Nikita and Damien about how important it was for them to connect with people outside prison during their incarceration. Monday 6th November...
Published 11/06/23
We know that end-times despair is far from a new experience. In this episode of Halycon Daze, we trace a thread through the last forty years, one that weaves through the fringe and sometimes into the centre of pop culture – that says ‘we’re afraid’, ‘we’re getting it wrong’ and ‘things must change’. Featuring music and words that have forefronted the threat of ecological collapse, defying ceaseless efforts by oil bosses and their buddies to keep it in the background.Come as you are, let's...
Published 10/09/23
Halcyon Daze E6 with Mia - Rave SpecialIt’s 11pm on a Monday night, but I’ll be taking you back, deep, into the weekend, to a rave. These illegal party spaces are deeply connected with survival and resistance in the end-times. They are, at their heart, spaces of world creation; who do we want to be, how do we want to be, outside of the normative gaze?TRACKLIST:Wilson Tanner - Idleai yamamoto - Car Planting MachinesMaara - Spiral 2 the Other Side Sputnik One - GraftersIN2STELLAR - Baby BumpLB...
Published 09/04/23
Episode 5 of Halcyon Daze, a show about love and rage, joy and sorrow, resistance and acceptance in the end times.Tonight’s show is about place. As we witness the collapse of ecosystems and stare down the end of this civilization, connecting to our places is crucial. Where are we fighting for? What do we stand to lose? What fuels the fight? What makes us, and what can remake us as we need to be remade? The answers to many of today’s most pressing questons lie in deep listening to our...
Published 07/31/23
Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 13 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani interview Mark and Nick from Crimes of Class.  Told through the lived experiences of the authors, Crimes of Class is an exploration of regional and rural working-class lives in the informal and black economies, and of crime, class struggle and class...
Published 07/24/23
A show about facing collapse – of ecosystems, civilisations, lifeways, worldviews.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~We’ve sat with grief. We’ve welcomed anger. Tonight, a different pace.  In the afterglow of a massive win for the native forest protection movement in Victoria, as well as of some incredible work by Blockade Australia last week, we take this opportunity for celebration. We attempt, as uncomfortable as it may be, to let ourselves feel joy, even as collapse continues around...
Published 06/26/23
Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 12 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani interview Mark and Nick from Crimes of Class.  Told through the lived experiences of the authors, Crimes of Class is an exploration of regional and rural working-class lives in the informal and black economies, and of crime, class struggle and class...
Published 06/19/23
Dan Tranh to Tinh and his family is like a teddy bear that comforts them, despite whatever distance to their homeland. Tinh Than plays on the đàn tranh , a  tradtional plucked zither of Vietnam, whose origins come from an ancient bamboo-tube zither in Southeast Asia. Tinh Than as Subject Δ(Delta), remembers the past yet pushes forward, combining traditional methods with modern musical elements and localised textures, exploring its sonic compatibilities.Tinh and I met at Cubby Art Parties...
Published 05/29/23
Halcyon Daze, a show about love and rage, joy and sorrow, resistance and acceptance in the end times.A space to stay with grief and loss; about everything that’s gone, and everything that’s going.Songs for teary times; poems that give voice to the lump in the throat; plus a conversation with a former hospital chaplain abut facing loss head-on. TRACKLIST:Everything Everything – Indigo Sparkes10 degrees C – Whatever the WeatherLess of a Stranger – Julia JacklinPass – Squirrel FlowerWhen Will...
Published 05/15/23
Anne-lise and Ani talk about community & individual responses to harm, transformative justice, accountability, safety, support & healing, within and challenging dominator culture. In episode 11 of Radio A & A Anne-lise and Ani explored collective spaces for support and healing as an anti-dote to experiences of violence that are often individualised and pathologising. Monday 8th May 2023 11pm on 3CR 855am. Broadcasted on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people.
Published 05/08/23
In episode 2 of What Your Seek Is Seeking You with Nadia Niaz on Writing Home, we continue exploring language, kinship, representation, and culture.  I’ve been reflecting a lot about language since I last saw Nadia, language that sometimes feels inadequate to give a description to the sensory, to memory, of the mundane, and also things that are extraordinary. Someone like me who speaks 4 and reads and writes three languages still feels inadequacy of vocabulary when it comes to English. I want...
Published 04/17/23
‘Halcyon Daze’ ANGRY SPECIALTune in to find out what a teacher said this week that has Mia fuming, and move through the end-times anger with poetry, music, and a very special interview with a bin chicken expert.Featuring timeless lyrics like "I wanna burn them" and "I'm thinking violence is the answer," tune in to get mad, feel sad and stay rad!Monday, March 27, 11pm-12am on 855am and on demand via the 3cr website.
Published 03/27/23
At Writing Home, I and Nadia who is my teacher, inspiration, and someone who shares home with me in language and our love for mountains came to the station to remind me of some very important things about writing, homesickness, kinship and nurturing.  I am certain the world is only there to alienate us from ourselves. It surely isn’t made for us but it is also incapable of accommodating the beauty of the nuances our cultures and identities bring. It is their lack and never us and no matter...
Published 02/27/23
"If these are the halcyon days, and we are in the midst of beauty and fresh air and fresh water, we need to lean into it. We need to call it forward, be in it, be present to the exquisiteness of the world so that we might call forward more of that." - Catherine IngramMia shares quotes, songs and poems that help carry her through these end-times. Plus, an interview with a Blockade Australia activist about organising in the collapse.Many worlds have ended, are ending, will end - we need to...
Published 02/20/23