Race Matters / Fracturing the language of empire

26.10.25
Shareeka, Tomym and writer Omar El Akkad stand together in the fbi music library with their arms folded. They are coincidentally all wearing t-shirts with resistance artwork on them.
Aired on 26.10.25, 10:00am

How do you ground your work in the sacredness of life while needing to speak back to the very powers destroying them?

Shareeka Helaluddin and Tommy Boutros speak to journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad, fllowing the release of his aching and relentless title "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against". The work pieces together words and narratives displaced by the violence of empire, while beckoning us to move beyond trying to find words but to move into actioned compelled by the desire to preserve the sacredness of human lives.

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