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Social Critique and Crass Language. Thursday mornings 9am - 10am, on 4zzz 102.1 fm. (www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/radio-reversal) It's fun!

Radio Reversal is a show that subjects aspects of everyday life to historico-political, theoretical, cheeky, irreverent, high brow, low brow, eye brow, warm-hearted analysis. Our aim is to see the world more clearly, think about what we'd like it to become, and how we can make that happen. We think that discussing these sorts of ideas is one way to ease the lessen the alienation that affects many

of us trying to make sense of a world that so often makes no sense of us. We also play loads of awesome music (sometimes thematic!) with great enthusiasm for requests and an emphasis on supporting local artists. Tune in on 102.1 fm, stream online from 4zzzfm.org.au, or listen to our podcasts:
http://radioreversal.podbean.com/

You can also listen to our more recent shows via 4zzz's on demand page:
http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/radio-reversal

Email us! radio.reversal(at)gmail.com

19/11/2025

Wake up Zedheads! It's Thursday morning and Radio Reversal is hitting the airwaves at 9am, and today on the show we are bringing you recordings of some of the speeches at Tuesday evening's Vigil to Remember People Who Died While Experiencing Homelessness. This Vigil, organised by the Anti-Poverty Network QLD and Kindness First - Housing Justice, brought people together in front of City Hall in KGS to remember and grieve the three unhoused people have died in the past few weeks in brisbane and redcliffe. This gathering refused to let this loss of life go unacknowledged and unfelt, and positioned these deaths as outcomes of a deeply unjust housing system, and of policies that fail people, that fail our communities.

We're grateful to have been permitted to record this event and share some of the speeches with you, dear listeners, and we'll be playing them from 9am, alongside lots of new and local music on 4ZZZ. Tune in!

12/11/2025

Good morro Zedpals! On the show today, Han's in the studio, sharing some excerpts from a podcast project that has long been in the works as part of their research alongside Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) at the Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies and the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures (Wallumattagal Campus, MQ), on Dharug Ngurra exploring the work and contributions to the public imaginary by q***r Indigenous creative artists. We've called it Q***R AS.

The Q***R AS podcast features expansive conversations with LGBTIQA+ Indigenous creative practitioners who share their work, lives, and processes of making. Partnering with IndigenousX, Q***R AS explores anti-colonial q***r-centred joy, practice, and the everyday acts of resistance. We’ve spoken with q***r Indigenous people who have challenged and represented across their artmaking, including Ben Graetz, Ellen van Neerven, Peter Waples-Crowe, Charlotte Allingham, Shaz Davis, and more. Q***R AS is hosted by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary creative artist and Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies Sandy O’Sullivan, with settler trans/non-binary researcher, musicker, and radio maker Dr Han Reardon-Smith. Theme music is also by Sandy and Han, and audio editing and podcast production is by Han. Cover art is by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary artist Dylan Barnes.

Two episodes are now available, and we'll play extracts from both of them on the show today: with Wiradjuri poet, writer, artist, and filmmaker Jazz Money, and with UK-based Black trans filmmaker Campbell X. Hear the full episodes, read the transcripts, and dive into all aspects of our research work at https://q***r-as.org/a-podcast/

Catch today's Radio Reversal by tuning in 9–10am on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, or go to https://4zzz.org.au/ to listen live or on-demand.

05/11/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

Today on Radio Reversal Nat and Marissa are in the studio with a couple of things for your listening ears. First up we have an interview with our friend Vi from the Anti Poverty Network - QLD, talking to us about the upcoming Vigil to Remember People Who Died While Experiencing Homelessness. Three unhoused people have died in the past few weeks in brisbane and redcliffe, and the folk at APN QLD and Kindness First - Housing Justice are organising this vigil in their memory, and to not let the death toll of housing policies (at local, state, and federal levels) go unacknowledged or unrecognised. The Vigil is on 18th November (Tuesday), 5pm at King George Square (see you there!).

In the second half of the show, Nat and Marissa will be talking through 'This Week in Moral Panics' - some of the confected outrage and fear-mongering bu****it we've come across in the last couple of weeks, and how these reveal the workings of the settler colony and capitalism.

Tune in on 4ZZZ from 9-10am for this, and lots of new and local music.

Image below is by Vi.

22/10/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

On this already-very-sweaty Thursday morning, Nat and Marissa are joined in the studio by friend-of-the-show and Radio Reversal's very own climate change correspondent, Dr Ed Morgan, to discuss the recent release of the National Climate Risk Assessment. In particular, we dig into what, if anything is new in the report, how we contextualise it alongside the Albanese Government's *many* fossil fuel development approvals and decades of inaction across all levels of government. We will talk a bit about how the report defines and understands 'risk', and what the implications of this are. We're also going to link these conversations back to the chats we've been having on and off all year about about crisis, disasters, and collective futures in the wake of Cyclone Alfred (to catch up on these discussions, find the Radio Reversal Podcast on all the podcasting apps!), and how we work together to build towards climate just futures.

Tune in 9-10am on 4ZZZ, or catch up later on demand. And stay cool!!!

Image of heatwave map from Brisbane Times.

15/10/2025

Morning Zedthreaders, Han in the studio with you today, with a challenging but vital show for you, featuring speakers from last weekend's Justice for Palestine Magan-djin protest gathering as part of the nationwide 12 October March for Palestine. First up is Wangerriburra and Birri Gubba activist Sam Woripa Watson, asserting the need to continue fighting alongside the news of a so-called ceasefire. Next up is Dr Saya Aziz, Australian anaesthetist, describing the horrors she witnessed whilst working at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on behalf of PANZMA (Palestinian Aust NZ Medical Association). Finally, former Freedom Flotilla participant, Gold Coast grandmother and Uni of Qld educator Helen O'Sullivan, reflects on the Sumud Flotilla and the pause in bombing, along with the ongoing fight that stretches before us.

As always, these words are accompanied by some brilliant tunes by local and international artists. Tune in to 102.1FM 4ZZZ live or catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au, and for more go to our podcast page https://www.radioreversal.org/

08/10/2025

Good morning zedly ones! We hope these summery spring days are treating you well. Today on the show, we are continuing our intermittent series on fascism, and its contemporary expressions and drivers in politics, in media, in the streets, and in pop culture.

In recent weeks, we have seen fascists on the street here in Magan-djin, and that has no doubt been on many people’s minds. We have also witnessed the staunch counter-protests organised and led by First Nations peoples. And, of course, this action on the streets is also all taking place as we pass two years of openly brutal genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and, in more subtle forms, across Palestine. The ongoing presence on the streets of Magan-djin to demand liberation and justice for Palestine and Palestinians is at the front of our minds as we’re thinking about fascism.

Today we're bringing you a conversation Marissa had earlier this week with Dr Anastasia Kanjere, friend of the show (listeners would have last heard from Anastasia in a series a couple years back on transformative union organising). Anastasia is a settler scholar based in Naarm, an anti-fascist, deep thinker and all-round amazing human. In this conversation, we’re thinking with Anastasia about the links between fascism and the broader political realities in so-called australia. We explore how the academic work about fascism and anti-fascist resistance has been slower to make links across struggles, and discuss some of the affective and intellectual lies that fascism tells about itself, particularly the marginality of fascism in a settler colonial society structured by white supremacist logics and violence, and how fascism weaponises feelings of vulnerability to obfuscate the harm they perpetrate and call for.

This conversation builds on the work that Anastasia has written, and specifically Anastasia’s chapter published in the 2023 book Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia. The text is linked below for anyone who'd like to take a look!

Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ 102.1FM for all this and lots of new, local music. And see you on the streets at the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin Nationwide March for Palestine this Sunday, 1pm, Queens Gardens.

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24/09/2025

Good morning Zedly ones! Hope you're having a beautiful morning.

On last week's show we played a recording of a keynote by Dr Emmy Rākete (Ngāpuhi), co-founder and spokesperson of People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and critical Marxist scholar at University of Auckland, whose work bridges activism and academia and is grounded in struggles for liberation for incarcerated Māori and q***r people.

Today we are brining you PART 2 of this excellent event, ‘Organising for Prison Abolition’ held back in June at Trades Hall in Naarm, hosted by Flatout, People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA), and Dr Emma Russell as part of her 'Reconceptualizing Risk' ARC DECRA research project.

Part 2 is a phenomenonal panel discussion chaired by Nina from Flatout, and featuring Kelly Flanagan, who is a proud Wiradjuri woman, lived experience advocate and FIGJAM member, alongside Stacey Stokes, writer and member of the Beyond Bricks and Bars steering committee (see link to her substack below), and founding members of People Against Prisons Aotearoa Dr Emmy Rākete and Dr Ti Lamusse.

This is a rich, warm, informative, transformative conversation about prison abolition, and how we can build safety and care for and with each other, in our communities. It features some topics and language that might not be right today for all listeners, including some discussions of state violence, violence experienced while incarcerated, sexual assault, death by su***de, and the occasional swear word. If you're not in the right place for those topics today but would like to listen back another time, you will be able to listen to this week's show (and Emmy's keynote from last week) via the 4ZZZ website for a few weeks, and (eventually) we will release both parts in full on the Radio Reversal Podcast (available on all good podcast platforms and some bad ones).

It'll be a packed show, tune in to 102.1FM from 9-10am for these big chats alongside some new and local music.

Image below from one of Flatout's campaigns, created by the brilliant Sam Wallman (who else?!)

17/09/2025

Zedheads! I am so excited for today's show, I am lucky enough to be bringing you a recording of a keynote by Dr Emmy Rākete (Ngāpuhi), co-founder and spokesperson of People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and critical Marxist scholar at University of Auckland, whose work bridges activism and academia and is grounded in struggles for liberation for incarcerated Māori and q***r people. (See links below to find out more about Emmy's work, and about PAPA).

This keynote was part of an event called ‘Organising for Prison Abolition’ held back in June at Trades Hall in Naarm, hosted by Flatout, People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA), and Dr Emma Russell as part of her 'Reconceptualizing Risk' ARC DECRA research project.

Dr Emmy Rākete's keynote - which was, rare for an academic talk, both academically brilliant and genuinely funny - asked why movements for police and prison abolition (and, indeed, the room at Trades Hall!) are so full of q***r people. She also dug into the formation of People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA), the historical development of prisons in relation to capitalism, importance of class struggle, and what the work of collective liberation asks of us.

So tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ for this brilliant speech, and plenty of new and local music, or catch up later on demand at the 4ZZZ website (and subscribe to the Radio Reversal Podcast on whatever podcast app you use!)

04/09/2025

Morning Zedtolians! Han in the studio with you this morn, and I've got a great convo for you all with Gamilaroi scholar Dr Tamika Worrell, who lives and works on and was grown up by Dharug Ngurra (Country). She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Critical Indigenous Studies at Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University. Her research interests are in Indigenous representation, Indigenous higher education success, education more broadly and digital lives, including artificial intelligence. It's AI that we focus on in today's chat, digging into Indigenist critiques and understandings of this increasingly ubiquitous technology. We're on air 9–10amn Thursdays on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, or catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au/program/radio-reversal/2025-09-04%2009:00:00

AI: An Insect image by Lyric Morris-Latchaw: https://www.instagram.com/studio.lyric/

27/08/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

Today on the show we are very honoured to be bringing you an interview with the incredible Dr. Samah Jabr - د. سماح جبر, recorded on her recent tour of so-called australia.

Dr Samah Jabr is a Palestinian Jerusalemite psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer, and former Head of the Mental Health Unit in the Ministry of Health, Palestine. She has written columns about the psychological consequences of the Israeli occupation in Palestine since the 2000s. Inspired by anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, her areas of interest include mental health, colonialism and universal human rights.

In this interview, Anna speaks with Dr Jabr about the specific impacts of colonial violence and trauma, the inadequacy of mainstream western psychiatric approaches to understanding those impacts, and the issues in rendering deliberately inflicted collective trauma in the terms of individual illness or pathology. They also discuss what healing from colonial violence can look like, and the importance of agency and collective and community-based processes.

Dr Samah Jabr also spoke with Anna a bit about her new book, "Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The global reverberation of Palestinian historical trauma" (link below!) which you should absolutely check out. This collection of essays draws on Dr Jabr's years of experience working at the intersection of mental health and struggles for liberation.

It's a great interview, digging into difficult and important matters. Grab a cuppa, settle in, we'll be bringing you this and new, local music, from 9-10am on 4ZZZ.

13/08/2025

Good morning Zedly Ones!! It is RADIOTHON - 4ZZZ's annual subscriber drive, the time of year when we ask you to subscribe to 4ZZZ to support the work this station does. It's a particularly special Radiothon show this year because we are also kicking off 4ZZZ's 50th birthday celebration! That's right, 4ZZZ has been in your ears for 50 years, bringing you new and local music, and agitating, educating, organising, and amplifying brisbane.

Sign up to be part of the next 50 years of community powered radio (see link below). AND of course by signing up during Radiothon you are going in the running to win some fantastic prizes, and you'll also get a sub card that gives you rad discounts to sub discount outlets, cheap entry to 4ZZZ gigs and BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS, and, of course, the warm inner glow of supporting local, independent, community media.

For our RADIOTHON show today Anna and Nat are in the studio to lay some groundwork for a series we'll be running intermittently over the next few months on pop culture and fascist affects, and the ways that pop culture and media can circulate, launder, and normalise fascist ideas. Recognising how this happens, and excavating and unlearning these ideas where they've taken root, is, we think, part of the essential work that needs doing, as we look forward to what the next 50 years will demand of us.

SO! Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ 102.1FM, and head to the link below to SUBSCRIBE to 4ZZZ. We could not do this without you. Subscribe and help us celebrate the past 50 years of community-powered radio, and to be part of the next 50 years 🎙📻

06/08/2025

Wassup Zedheads! Tune in from 9am today, when Anna and Jonno will be talking about trans rights, the political evolution of the Queensland Greens, and transphobic conspiracy theories.

Recently, one of the founders of the Greens, Drew Hutton, was expelled from the party following a series of Facebook posts that attracted complaints of transphobia. So what should we do when people in our communities start sharing or platforming content that amounts to anti-trans dogwhistling? And what does it say about the evolution of the Greens that the party is taking such strong action in response to anti-trans rhetoric?

To dig into this, we’ll be catching up with Necho “Victory to the People” Brocchi, proud trans woman, trans and q***r advocate and law student, to talk about the impact of rising transphobia on trans young people, and how we can challenge transphobic dogwhistling whenever it crops up. And we'll be having a big think about how we can build movements and communities that allow space for people to learn and grow, to ask questions, and to change their mind...while still holding each other accountable for disingenuous, dangerous and dehumanising dogwhistling.

Lots to dig into, and as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Text us in the studio on 0420 626 733 or give us a call while we’re playing a track on 3252 1555.

Listen live on 4ZZZ 102.1FM or online via the links in the comments!

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