The Radio Reversal collective is a long-standing audio collective based in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane. It grew out of the live 4zzz radio program Radio Reversal, co-founded by Briohny Walker & Fern Thompsett in 2012. Across a variety of formats and timeslots, the live show has continued to anchor the work we do, and we remain committed to making community radio that amplifies community struggle and centres the resistance and resurgence of oppressed peoples everywhere.
We describe ourselves as a collective because so many people have shaped this project over time. As a radio program and podcast that involves recordings of community events and protest actions, interviews, and other collaborations with community groups, Radio Reversal inevitably includes a vast constellation of collaborators, co-conspirators and comrades. The collective is (loosely) coordinated by Anna Carlson, Natalie Osborne and Han Reardon-Smith, with regular presenters Lamisse Hamouda, Jonathan Sriranganthan, Ari Russell, Roshan Clerke, Marissa Dooris, and Shreya Singh all contributing in different ways to sustaining and growing the project.
In all its iterations, Radio Reversal is premised on a shared vision: that there is a need for community-led political education that is explicitly abolitionist, Indigenist, anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, disabled, queer, and feminist. As a collective, we are committed to using the tools of audio production and storytelling to platform and amplify grassroots community organising, critical theorising, & political art, music, and activism. For as long as we've been making radio, we have also been slowly building an audio archive of grassroots struggles for justice and liberation across this city and beyond; a partial and tentative record of some of the radical theorising, organising, mistake-making, re-thinking, and community building that happens across this city.
This long-standing project is an ongoing and humble experiment in public pedagogy; in thinking and learning out loud, together, over and over again. Here, we will share some of that archive, and the lessons we've learned from building it. You'll find standalone episodes, specialist podcast series, as well as semi-regular updates on our ongoing collaborations with the BFU Activist Research Collective, Justice for Palestine Magan-djin & other local groups.
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At this stage, none of the producers involved in the Radio Reversal Collective are paid for their labour on the podcast, and nor are any of our regular guests or creative contributors. As such, any subscription funds will be directed back to sustaining the project by covering essential costs and equipment upgrades.
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