Race Matters / The poetics of chanting

What role does spirituality play in our solidarity movements? What is spirituality without accountability?

Alicia Zhao traces the connection between ritual, chanting and protest, joined by Joannie Lee. We hear from artist, organiser and Buddhist practitioner Elaine Su-Hui, who reflects on how devotional recitation meets collective voice, and ritual becomes a site of both grounding and action. We are also guided by Aunty Rhonda, whose life and work speak to the inseparability of ceremony, Country, and resistance. This episode is a reflection on spirituality as a living, breathing force within solidarity movements.

A content note for First Nations listeners, this piece mentions ancestors who have passed and there is brief mention of death in custody.

This episode was produced by Alicia Zhao, with supervision and creative advice from Shareeka Helaluddin.