In Mexico and across Latin America, and Australia, a quinceañera is a celebration of turning fifteen. It’s usually a party, usually for a girl and you might have seen a version of one in Jane the Virgin, One Day at a Time, or even Sweet 15: Quinceañera. But there’s much more to this tradition than just pastel dresses and high heels. Though there are those, too. Doctor Gabriela Coronado is a Mexican-Australian anthropologist whose areas include the intercultural complexities of cultures. She’s been to a few quinces. Links for this episode: Support FBi Radio! We got lots of options for you at https://fbiradio.com/support/ Las Rosas launches September 29th on YouTube. Follow the show on Instagram, or join them at Casula Powerhouse for the series launch on October 6th. Adam Taub’s excellent documentary, La Quinceañera, follows one young girl and her family preparing for her quinceañera in Tijuana, Mexico. You can watch it online. Songs from Quinceañeras:La Cabezona — CumbiamuffinSon Huini — Los Hermanos RiosTe Recuerdo Amanda — Victor JaraLa Negra Tomasa — CaifanesSobre Las Olas — Juventino Rosas, performed by Alondra de la Parra & Philharmonic Orchestra of the AmericasSin Un Amor — Los PanchosLa Resistencia — Nahuatl Sound SystemLa Petenera — Colectivo MoyoloEl Cascabel — Waiting for GuinessSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People say some stupid stuff when they think they're among friends. "All Jews" are this, maybe. Or "all Muslims" are that. Do you confront casual racism when you hear it, in private places like the dinner table, from family or friends? Or do you bite your tongue? Two Sydney women weren't sure that straight up confrontation would work all by itself, so they helped write a play that worked it. Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk are part of the writing collective Abe's Babes, which wrote the play The Laden Table about casual racism around Sydney's Muslim and Jewish dinner tables. Links for this episode: Follow Abe's Babes on Facebook to keep up with future productions of the play.Bakehouse Theatre's production of the Laden Table has a short video of the production.Some short explainers, if you want to know more about the Nakba and the Holocaust. Songs from Dinner Table Racism: Poyeyu (feat. Mariela Gerez) — SelvaMir — MurcofKravchenko – Fair (Guitar Version) — Richard Patterson (Little Odessa soundtrack)The Song From Venus — Stephin MerrittCornfield Chase — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar soundtrack)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion shows doesn’t mean you don’t want good fashion of your own. There are great designers making clothes that include Fijian design, hijabs or Vietnamese fabric. And all of those just in Sydney’s western suburbs. Filmmaker Thuy Ngyuen made the documentary Against the Grain about the Western Sydney Fashion Festival. She also helped make the Festival happen in the first place. Links from this episode: Keep up to date with the Western Sydney Fashion FestivalSee some of the designers we were talking about in Thuy’s short doco about the Festival, Against the Grain.The designers mentioned in this episode were: Bayvick Designs Delina Amalina Aman Laksmhi-Bee Tiana Van Style of the Impressionism (Marky Dong) Songs from this episode: 2 6 4 — Body TypeNo Quiero Crecer (reprise) — EusebioWrench and Numbers — Jeff Russo & The Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra (Fargo Season 2 soundtrack)We Had Coffee— Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Luke Cage soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things going on as well. They’re already at work doing ordinary stuff: working in agriculture, in infrastructure, filming the news. Peter Robinson is a journalist at the ABC, and has been working on pioneering some of those moves for the organisation. Links from this episode: CASA’s Can I Fly There? app.Four Corners’ water theft story, with its drone-shot footage.The drone battery fire on board a plane at Melbourne airport.New York Mag writer Benjamin Wallace Wells described a drone as something that can move you “back and forth between the intimate and the vast.”Wanna buy a drone now? The Wirecutter has a guide to buying a cheapish one. Songs from This Episode: They Do They Don’t — Jack JohnsonHomesick — Pavrov StellarLa Kebradita — Mexican Institute of SoundS.T.A.Y. — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar soundtrack)A.C — ILJUS WIFMOLovely Raquel — Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption soundtrack)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
War in the news is kind of hard to watch. Conflict gets presented like sports — two sides: one wins, one loses. Advocates of peace journalism think that war can be covered better than this. And, by reporting more to us than just a zero-sum game, it can offer ways of dealing with conflict that aren’t just about violence and who’s committing it. Zainab Abdul-Nabi is a former journalist who’s especially interested in using peace journalism to look at Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Bahrain pro-democracy uprising in 2011, during the “Arab Spring”. Links from this episode: Zainab’s article looking at Bahrain’s uprising through the lens of Peace Journalism. Jay Rosen’s original piece on how some journalists seem to want to become political insiders. If want to know even more about peace journalism, the Peace Talks Radio podcast has a deeper dive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.