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What does accessibility to sexual liberation really mean?
Content warning: this interview contains mention of sexual violence.
Alicia Zhao shares an intimate dialogue with friend, artist and advocate Dakota Quin. Facing the question of the body no longer being a productive vessel for capitalism, Dakota’s artistic and activist work seeks to find the pleasure and possibilities of embodied liberation. We learn about their story and how it culminated in the upcoming film, Unspeakable, a body of work in collaboration with Esther Bridget Joy.
Read more about and support the Unspeakable documentary: Rediscovering Sexual Liberation After Sexual Violence, and follow their instagram for updates.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A tale of two Dilwale's: Mateo and Bipasha move through the phenomena of Bollywood cinema and its grasp on broader subcontinental culture. Specifically, a classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and it's less-regarded not-so-classic Dilwale (2015), both starring the inimitable SRK and Kajol.
They trace their relationships with growing up with Bollywood cinema, recount watching these films five hours back to back; and reflect on the depths and contradictions of these cultural outputs.
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Race Matters as found family, as a liberation practice, as a space to play. Settle into a grounded and cosy episode hearing the newest voices on air and behind the scenes: Yvonne, Hong, Aysenur Kara, Janey Li guided in conversation by Alicia Zhao.
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"The people’s blood won’t stain our hands" - the words decried from a recent direct action in Athens where the port workers took industrial action to stop the shipment of Israeli arms. This is an example of a way we can boycott, divest and sanction in our everyday lives.
We're joined by staunch, third-generation Palestinian organiser and advocate Rand Khatib to take us through the legacy of resistance in her blood, and the power of collective action through BDS actions that Palestinians have long-called for. Every day, there are non-violent, material ways we can commit to the end of occupation.
We also also hear from those in our local community practicing BDS and what their experiences of learning this, have been.
Join us: BDS actions is so-called AustraliaNational week of BDS Action
National Day of Action against Caltex November 16
Global BDS updates
This piece was produced by Toobs and Joannie Lee, with voice notes from Betty, Christie and Jess edited by Joannie Lee; and Supervising Producer Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Your feelings are your responsibility.
Content Note: this episode contains mention of explicit sexual content and swearing.
A final sharing from our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries, hosted by Jasmine Raat Ki Raani. A sensual and galvanising take down of white feminism and fragility. We hear the intimate experiences of workers Natasha, Tamil King and Korie, on the pleasures and truths of navigating different spaces in the sex industry. The series artwork is by Katy Cao.
In the introduction, Jasmine is reading from Against White Feminism: Rafia Zakaria
This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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COVID is not over. It is still here. This is an invitation to understand that reality, and to let it transform you.
Grounded in disability justice, and brought to you by a chorus of staunch disabled voices: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Darcy from Sick/Sovereign, Tori Hobbs and Julia Rose Bak from The Disability Justice Network and Li from COVID Solidarity ‘syd.’
Produced by Samantha Haran, Shareeka Helaluddin & Sehej Kaur. Additional thanks to Justin Chen, Allison Chan and Juliet Fox.
Episode artwork by Li @eternallyuncomfortable
Arundhati Roy on ‘The pandemic is a portal’: https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
COVID resources:
Let Them Eat Plague! (Intro to COVID politics and basic COVID myth busting): https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-plague/ You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence (Mia Mingus) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/ How to do COVID Conscious events resource (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kf1AKdE0j5k2hqIOvIjeS4tYzxgsoar6SOot6JklLE4/edit NSW COVID safer venues database (by COVID Solidarity ‘syd’): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAN1QE_4_b5JSzwooQSEXwlM995UusdU9w4rswRecZ0/edit?gid=1146046115#gid=1146046115 What to do if you have COVID (by The Peoples CDC - US based): https://peoplescdc.org/2023/01/10/what-to-do-if-you-have-covid/Support the rich chorus of voices that made this episode possible:
Read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s latest book: https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/ Read the Sick/Sovereign zine: https://www.yacvic.org.au/ydas/policy-and-events/policy/covid-19/resources/first-nations-zine/ Darcy’s work with Blackfulla Alt2Su: https://instagram.com/BlackfullaAlt2Su Join the Disability Justice Network facebook group (disabled people only): https://www.facebook.com/share/g/zYoTbvvRLkQYYSJz/?mibextid=adzO7l Donate to the Disability Justice Network mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/disability-justice-network-mutual-aid-fund Follow COVID Solidarity ‘syd’: https://www.instagram.com/c0vidsolidaritysyd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Would you make a good revolutionary leader? What would you do when the playable revolution corrupts? Mateo and Sara are joined by Berlin-based revolutionary game designer and artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, to question the role of video games in possibility and conversation.
Find out more about Muriel Tramis
Play Danielle’s work:
Black Trans Archive
I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU ANYMORECo-host and Interview: Sara El Youghun and Mateo Baskaran
Produced by: Janey Li
Executive Producer: Shareeka Helaluddin
Additional music and visuals from Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley courtesy of the artist.
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What comes to mind when you hear “language under occupation”? We're joined by Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator, Hasib Hourani to move through this question and making language a vessel for critique, resistance and play.
Liminal Festival is happening at The Wheeler Centre (Victoria) and online from August 2-4. To learn more about this ground-breaking literary festival, visit this site. Hasib will appear at the event Language Under Occupation alongside Evelyn Araluen and Mykaela Saunders.
This episode was hosted and co-produced by: Alicia Zhao & Toobs Anwar
Supervising Producer: Shareeka Helaluddin
Podcast and CRN Edit: Mateo Baskaran
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What is it to hold the heartbreak of facing a world of systemic injustice, and turn it into energy and meanignful action?
We're joined by Inez, a radio broadcaster on 3CR's Thursday Breakfast, community organiser and mental health worker. An intimate chat on navigating hurt and anger of dealing with systemic injustice, processing the recent Indian election and its impact, and how a solidarity with Falasteen has nurtured a retuning to their Sikh faith.
In this spirit, Inez has shared some foundational texts and further reading - "these thoughts and sentiments follow a long lineage of radical Black, Indigenous, and/or Muslim female writers, organisers, and revolutionaries - long before me"
Dr Ayesha Khan: Care, Relationships and Direct Action Audre Lorde: Your Silence Won't Protect You Palestinian Narrative Therapy book - "Responding to Trauma That is Not Past" written by Palestinians trauma counsellors and psychologists and ex-detainees.Support
Gaza Mutual Aid Sudan Updates Focus Congo Dhadjowa Foundation Incarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community Fund (National)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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There are no universities left in Gaza.
Alicia Zhao & Samantha Haran take us through the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza, a soundscape of the Student Intifada. Field recordings from across so-called australia and a foundational teach in by Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung, Dunghutti educator and poet Lizzie Jarrett.
Even in lulls and in the quiet, you can hear it. You can hear the possibility of another world brewing.
In the spirit of collective action there were many people that made this piece possible. This piece was produced by Samantha Haran & Alicia Zhao; Scripting, USYD & UNSW recordings by Samantha Haran; Soundscapes by Alicia Zhao & Mateo Baskaran; Teach in by Lizzie Jarrett, co-organised and recording assisted by Rand Khatib; UQ recordings by Anna Carlson; Creative direction and final mixing and sound design by Shareeka Helaluddin
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Full house on Race Matters today as we welcome the amazing crew from Jam for Justice - a community fundraiser happening on June 22 raising funds for PARA (Palestine Australia Relief and Action) to support Gazans on the ground, and Palestinians seeking asylum in australia. Hear from artists and organisers Wytchings (Jenny), Zeadala (Zainab), Tru (Sara), Emad (Jafar) and Wasiela (an.other collective) about this upcoming event and collective resistance and care in this moment.
Other ways to show your support
DEiFY - action toolkit - comprehensive, updated actions
Gaza Mutual Aid Fund (instagram)
Operation Olive Branch
Palestine Action Group
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Censorship in the arts has been rampant across our galleries, theaters, airwaves and screens. As the genocide devastates across Palestine in its seventh month, we witness sites of art-making cower away from speaking out and silencing artists who do. In this tumultuous and heartbreaking climate - how do we understand the role of the artist? Hear from artists Lux Æterna, Alissar Chidiac and Nicole Barakat unpacking this, creating an intergenerational chat on the need for artists to be vigilant witnesses and creative resistors.
They’re part of an exhibition at The Cross Art Projects, Potts Point Forms of Censorship - gathering artists across forms and identity to query the culture of self-censorship on now, and has been extended until until June 15th 2024.
This bridge called my back - Writings by radical women of colour Mondoweiss - From the River to the Sea, history, meaing and power artists for Palestine 2023 - instagram campaign calling galleries into account, publishing responses (or lack of) from artistic boards
Other works referenced
This episode was hosted and produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, and was edited by Mateo Baskaran.
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Content note: this episode contains mention of family violence, incarceration, houselessness, and visceral descriptions of some memories. It's not described in detail but please go gently if these will affect you.
Samantha Haran and Bipasha Roy chat to Gomeroi writer, curator and scholar Dr Amy Thunig. A rich chat on memoir as a politcal act amid erasure, dismantling white supremacy in academia, finding wisdom by attuning to ancestral practices.
Catch Amy at the Sydney Writers Festival from May 20 spanning their curatorial and literary output across a few events, for more details head to the Sydney Writers Festival website.
This piece was co-produced and hosted by Samantha Haran and Bipasha Roy, with audio editing, supervising producer Shareeka Helaluddin.
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A spirit of protest and deep sensitivity echoes in this episode with two staunch First Nations activists and artists Jazz Money & Thea Anamara Perkins. Honored to have FBi broadcaster, writer and curator Levent Can Kaya take over Race Matters with an incisive and luminous chat. Hear Lev, Thea and Jazz on personal archives and joyous collective imagination as antidotes to colonial violence; and the politics of art-making as institutions try to stifle our resistance.
Image: from Atherreyurre, by Thea Anamara Perkins
This episode was produced by Levent Can Kaya, with final audio editing, supervising producer Shareeka Helaluddin.
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Alicia Zhao and Joannie Lee are joined by artist, Dharma practitioner and co-founder of the Inner Fields collective - Elaine Su-Hui. Together they share a reflective chat on their relationships with Buddhism, what it is to come to a politicised reclamation of spirituality, decolonise Western appropriations of faith, and turn towards a practice that doesn't bypass injustice - but faces it with courage and loving action.
This episode was co-produced and co-hosted by Alicia Zhao and Joannie Lee. Audio editing by Alicia Zhao, with supervising producing and final mixing by Shareeka Helaluddin.
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This week the Race Matters team settle in to have a deep chat about love. What is the role of love when we are witnessing the horrors, violence and apathy of the genocide of Palestinian people and the rise of facism? Join Alicia Zhao, Toobs Anwar and Samantha Haran unpack the politics of love and what it means to practice radical and political love in our everyday life.
Featuring excerpts from Saul Williams & James Baldwin.
This episode was co-produced and co-hosted by Alicia Zhao, Samantha Haran and Toobs Anwar. Audio editing and supervising producer was Shareeka Helaluddin.
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how can we gather in non-hierarchical ways, form solidarities, resist shallow representation and form cultures of genuine reciprocity?
Upending the colonial building of artshouse during Dalit History Month, ಒಡಲಾಳ Odalala (‘from the depths of one’s being’) brings together local and international artists to examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality through contemporary expression. Envisioned by Dalit curator-artist Vishal Kumaraswamy morphing conventional expectations through an anti-caste politics of curation. Hear Vishal in dialogue with artists Elyas Alavi & Jagath Dheerasekara making these ideas come to life.
This episode was produced by Shareeka Helaluddin, and came together through the dedicated collaborative efforts of Vishal Kumaraswamy, Louana Sainsbury, Varsha Ramesh & Nithya Nagarajan.
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MIGRANT SEX WORKER OF COLOUR DIARIES: WE SPEAK CLEARLY
〰️ this episode is in loving memory of dear friend and colleague, Venus 〰️
A special episode this week as we delve into the second offering of our Migrant Sex Worker of Colour Diaries produced by Jasmine Raat-Ki-Raani. An intimate, extended dialogue with Natasha tracing her life from Brazil to so-called a̶u̶s̶t̶r̶a̶l̶i̶a̶. Hear stories of navigating the workforce as an immigrant, joining the s^x industry and learning the value of labour, refusal, connection and perseverance.
Listen back to the first episode of the series to learn more, and consider making a solidarity donation via BSB: 013040 & Account: 464120537
Series concept, produced and edited - Jasmine Raat Ki Raani | Series artwork - Katy Cao | Final mixing & sound design - Shareeka Helaluddin
This series was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
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A stunning and expansive world conjured by Aaqila aka halalbutch
Aaqila is a writer, artist, DJ and community organiser based on Whadjuk land and sometimes Gadigal land. Their habitude operates towards providing tools for collective liberation beyond the tools of the institution; which manifests in different ways from the dinner table to the gallery. Their threads of research are drawn from Malay-Anglo subjectivities and move slowly through contemporary and ancestral understandings of gender, collective healing and embodied ritual. They have written for numerous publications across so-called Australia including Disclaimer Journal, un Magazine, Granville Centre Art Gallery, sweet pea and several more. They recently participated in the Muslim Poetry Project with Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the Asia Pacific Exchange Program with Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Grey Projects in Singapore. They also perform and DJ semi-regularly under varying pseudonyms.
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Leon Bridges - Brown Skin Girl
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK I WORK IT (Morning Mix)
SOPHIE - Pretending
Ariel Zetina - Have You Ever (feat Cae Monãe)
Ch4ins4w - Future Borg
Chris Cobilis - This Is You
Chris Cobilis - Opening Sequence
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK II WORK IT (Afternoon Mix)
Jack and Jill - FIERCE TALK III WORK IT (Evening Mix)
Fauxe - Go Figure
Erozia - Sentimental Flex
Aaqila - Mirage
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer [intermission on a finished vinyl record]
Pupa - Waveless
Aaqila - God is in my mouth
Uncle Woozee - Accidental Theremin
Aaqila - Each member of my family is cackling
Uncle Woozee - Black Ring Transmission
Aaqila - Same name
Rita Revell - X-12
Aaqila - Time will bring us back࿐ ࿔
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond. theme sound design - wytchings
series artwork - tyberius larking
design & art direction - tim worton
series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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"Space is scared. We often think that space is related to the physical and the tangible but also the metaphysical. To hold space for someone is a great gift. In today's world, we all have these pockets of existence, but we rarely and genuinely hold space for others that is more than just superficial. To hold space for another is to exist with them at that moment - to share breath and existence. If we want to build the bridges between ignorance and discrimination, we must share breath. australian Indigenous culture is defined by how we are connected. Even before we are born, we have already been given a song- a story. We were born with a place in this world and, with that, a legacy. Through this legacy, we as a people know that we are a part of this land and everything and everyone inhabiting it. We were born to hold space and share breath."
With roots in the Larrakia Nation of Garamilla (Darwin) and Erubam Le peoples of Meriam Mir. A trailblazing filmmaker, broadcaster and community-builder.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭
Bangarra Theatr Co - Fire from Ŋathu - ONES COUNTRY - the spine of our stories
Patrick Jonsson - Painting Clouds (Scrapper OST)࿐ ࿔
𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 a queer, experimental radio project that traces eight unique sonic worlds from different creators across this continent and beyond.
+ theme sound design - wytchings
+ series artwork - tyberius larking
+ design & art direction - tim worton
+ series concept & gatherer - shareeka helaluddin, title inspired by the work of Ruby Sircar
𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆.𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝑩𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚
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