Tuesday Breakfast - Reclaiming the Name, Raquel Willis, Meena Singh, Naarm Imagining Abolition

Tuesday Breakfast

Tuesday Breakfast - 25 September 2018with Ayan, Lauren and Anya (we miss you George!) 7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7:02 am News Headlines7.10 am China Aleisse (Ah- lease) is a producer, director, writer and experience facilitator from Detroit Michigan, who settled here a few years ago. She is the founder of Floating Key - a curatorial platform that centers Black elevation and PoC Solidarity in Naarm. China returns to Tuesday Breakfast to discuss her exciting collaborative show, Reclaiming the Name: A Journey to our Unsung Stories.7.20 am Community Announcements7.30 am Raquel Willis is a powerful black transgender activist and writer from the U.S. who was recognised this year as one of America's most influential African Americans on The Root 100, alongside Solange Knowles, Tamika D. Mallory and Patrisse Khan-Cullors. She has also been named in ESSENCE's Woke 100 Women, which honors the women who are blazing trails for equal rights and inclusion for Black people in America.7.45 am Alternative News8.00 am Meena Singh is the Director Legal and Client Services of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and a proud Yorta Yorta woman. Meena joins us in the studio to discuss the recent Victorian Supreme Court decision that an Aboriginal man’s request to be sentenced by a Koori Court shouldn't have been denied. 8.15 am Idil Ali is a Senior Youth Practitioner at Drummond Street Services. A writer, performing artist, moderator and community organiser her work is centred in community autonomy, resistance and freedom. Idil alongside Meriki Onus of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR, created the Idil Ali is the co-founder of the fundraiser, Naarm Imagining Abolition. Idil joins Tuesday to share more information about the fundraiser. Songsartist: Satyameva Jayate, Neha Kakkar, Dhvani Bhanushali, Ikkasong: DILBARartist: Seinabo Setsong: I owe you nothingartist: Kaiitsong: Natural Womanartist: Sampa The Greatsong: FEMALEartist: Solange song: Cranes in the Sky