Radio Reversal
Anna, Natalie, Han, Lamisse, Aleea, Jonathan and Helen
Thursday
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Radio Reversal is a show that subjects aspects of everyday life to historico-political, theoretical, cheeky, irreverent, high brow, low brow, eye brow, warm-hearted analysis. Our aim is to see the world more clearly, think about what we'd like it to become, and how we can make that happen. We think that discussing these sorts of ideas is one way to lessen the alienation that affects many of us trying to make sense of a world that so often makes no sense of us. We also play loads of awesome music (sometimes thematic!) with great enthusiasm for requests and an emphasis on supporting local artists. It's fun!
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20 February, 2025
Interrupting the War on Kids w Necho Brocchi
Tune in this morning for another jam-packed episode of Radio Reversal, as Anna is joined in the studio by SUPER SPECIAL GUEST Necho Brocchi. Necho is a youth worker and a police and prison abolitionist who is currently working at Open Doors Youth Service here in Magan-djin. She joins Radio Reversal to talk through the Queensland government's recently proposed ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people experiencing gender dysphoria in queensland.
Following on from our show last week, this week we're taking a deeper dive into these recent announcements in queensland, to have a bit of a think about how this new wave of regulations targeting young trans people in queensland is connected to the broader “war on kids” that we’ve seen playing out over the past few years. We'll be talking about the way that young people have been scapegoated and targeted by successive government's in queensland - from the draconian "Adult Crime, Adult Time" legislation passed in December last year, through to these most recent announcements. And we have a bit of a think about why it's useful to see the current ban on puberty blockers as part of a broader pattern of targeting some of the most vulnerable people in the state as a way to distract attention from the crisis conditions of the present.