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 — Cumbiamuffin Son Huini — Los Hermanos Rios Te Recuerdo Amanda — Victor Jara La Negra Tomasa — Caifanes Sobre Las Olas — Juventino Rosas, performed by Alondra de la Parra & Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas Sin Un Amor — Los Panchos La Resistencia — Nahuatl Sound System La Petenera — Colectivo Moyolo El Cascabel — Waiting for Guiness See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL

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) — Selva Mir — Murcof Kravchenko – Fair (Guitar Version) — Richard Patterson (Little Odessa soundtrack) The Song From Venus — Stephin Merritt Cornfield Chase — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk)

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 Festival See 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 Type No Quiero Crecer (reprise) — Eusebio Wrench 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.

Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen)

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 Johnson Homesick — Pavrov Stellar La Kebradita — Mexican Institute of Sound S.T.A.Y. — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar soundtrack) A.C — ILJUS WIFMO Lovely Raquel — Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson)

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.

Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi)

Almost three hundred years ago, a woman called Mary Toft was interrogated a bunch of doctors in London. She was interrogated after having given birth to a litter of rabbits. Or so she claimed. But, in that era, one of the strangest things about the case wasn’t just the rabbits: it was that doctors — “male midwives” — were muscling into the giving birth business. Amelia Dale teaches at Sydney University and talked about Toft in her PhD thesis. Links from this episode: Learn more about Mary Toft here, or listen to the BBC’s take on her story. What Hogarth print where? William Hogarth was a visual satirist, who made fun of the scandal around Toft with this engraving   Songs from Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits: Ojos Del Sol — Y La Bamba Akogare — Super Magic Hats Copza Luca — Adrian Simionescu and Orchestre Marin Ioan (Gajo Dilo soundtrack) Slip Away — Kim Boekbinder See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits (Amelia Dale)

There’s this thing that’s disappearing in cities across the world: the entire Milky Way. Light pollution means that more and more people can’t see our own galaxy in the sky. A view which used to be a fundamental human experience. Angel Lopez-Sanchez is an astronomer at the the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and Macquarie University who knows what we’re missing and what we can do about it. Links from this episode: Angel’s blog, the Lined Wolf and his post on light pollution. Find a good piece of dark sky to find the Milky Way on with the Dark Sky Map. Or read about Australia’s recently-declared, first Dark Sky Park. Songs from this episode: Human Orchestra — Mark Bradshaw (Bright Star soundtrack) As You Wish — stackhat Still Unbeaten Life — Gang of Youths Chi Glow — Fishing Honest — Little Earthquake Lux Aeterna — Clytus Gottwold (2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez)

It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we have a lot to learn from this (often) threated variety of amphibians. Not just about how frogs work, but also for human benefit as well. Jodi Rowley curator of amphibian and reptile conservation biology for the Australian Museum and the University of New South Wales. She knows frogs. Links from this episode: Jodi has SO MANY FROGS on her website. You can hear more frog calls on the Australian Museum website. There's more about singing frogs, missing frogs or vampire frogs there, as well. Jodi's pictures of a caecilian. The Amphibians of the World online reference. The lowdown on Amphibian Chytrid Fungus. Songs from this episode: No Hablo Español — Fea Batonga — Angelique Kidjo I've Got a Fang — They Might Be Giants Say Sun — Y La Bamba Orca — Y La Bamba Pure & Easy — The Dining Rooms (Six Feet Under soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)

It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we have a lot to learn from this (often) threated variety of amphibians. Not just about how frogs work, but also for human benefit as well. Jodi Rowley curator of amphibian and reptile conservation biology for the Australian Museum and the University of New South Wales. She knows frogs. Links from this episode: Jodi has SO MANY FROGS on her website. You can hear more frog calls on the Australian Museum website. There's more about singing frogs, missing frogs or vampire frogs there, as well. This is one of Jodi's pictures of a caecilian. The Amphibians of the World online reference. The lowdown on Amphibian Chytrid Fungus. Songs from this episode: No Hablo Español — Fea Batonga — Angelique Kidjo I've Got a Fang — They Might Be Giants Say Sun — Y La Bamba Orca — Y La Bamba Pure & Easy — The Dining Rooms (Six Feet Under soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

406: Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)

In 1978, Italy passed a law to shut down its Asylums. The asylums were ageing, horrfying institutions that weren’t so great at looking after people. Two people at the centre of the change were Franco Basaglia and his wife, Franca Ongaro Basaglia.  Historian John Foot accidentally discovered this story at a documentary screening, and wrote a book on them. He explains why what they did is such a big thing. Links from this episode: John’s book is available in all the places. The documentary that moved John was called San Clemente, by  Raymond Depardon and Sophie Ristelhueber. If you’re interested in how this ‘deinstutionalisation’ works with current mental health services, one of the best round ups is from the US (covering their system, but similar dilemmas). Of course, it’s by John Oliver. Songs from How to Close All of Italy’s Asylums: The Solist in the Living Room — Cold War Kids La Strada — Nino Rota 8 1/2 — Nino Rota Paris Mood — Tom Waits See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot)

Lars Rutz grew up in the East Berlin bohemian scene in communist Germany in the 80s. Like a lot of people in the East, he wanted to leave. But East Germany was a police state, with an ever-present spy agency, the Stasi. What is it like to try to escape a place like that? And what is it like to read what the spies wrote about you, years later? Links from this episode: The Stasi really did have a library of smells. Snowden really did have a statue in Berlin, along with Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. Though they started in Berlin, the three statues are part of an art project, Anything to Say, which is touring the world. Lars' lawyer was Wolfgang Vogel, who was the other lawyer in Bridge of Spies. (Not the one played by Tom Hanks.) Lars was suggested, accidentally, by Cassie Findlay. Much of this story was originally presented by Lars at a talk for the Australian Society of Archivists. Songs in this episode: Love is Blindness — Jack White (Great Gatsby soundtrack) Brain Retractor — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis 10 Sola Gratia (Part 2) — SQÜRL (Only Lovers Left Alive soundtrack) La Valse Des Vieux Os — Yann Tiersan (Amelia soundtrack) Engel — Laurent Pettigrand (Faraway, So Close! soundtrack) Martha's Dream — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Oily Night — Tom Waits Chasing Down Sadness — Michael Giacchino (Inside Out soundtrack) Song For Jesse — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Os Quindins De Ya Ya — Stanley Black (Strictly Ballroom soundtrack) Drive Away — Thomas Newman (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reading What Spies Write About You (Lars Rutz)

Why is menopause a thing? Only three species really do it: short-finned pilot whales, killer whales and humans beings. It’s biologically strange. And it gives us another biologically strange thing: grandmas. Dr Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah) is the lead proponent of the Grandmother Hypothesis, which says that grandmas became a thing in human evolution because having them was a pretty good deal, evolutionarily speaking.   Links from this episode: Listen to Kristen’s full lecture at the Science Festival at Sydney Uni’s Sydney Ideas podcast. (She’s introduced by local collaborator, Peter Kim.) The Atlantic also has a bit more about the Grandmother Hypothesis. If you just want to know about other animals that do go through menopause, National Geographic has you covered.   Songs in This Episode: Green, Green Rocky Road — Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack) 1, 2, 3 — Camille Golden Valves — Orkestra Del Sol Il Principe — Eusebio Green, Green Rocky Road — Dave Van Ronk (Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack) Mis Dos Pequeñas — Orlando Cachaito Lopez (Six Feet Under soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grandmas (Kristen Hawkes)

Nowadays the Ex. Ex. is less famous that The XX. But in the early nineteenth century, it was one of the most ambitious journeys in history. The US Exploring Expedition (the Ex. Ex.), traveled the Pacific on a mission of non-violent exploration. But it was an ideal it didn't always exactly live up to. Will Scates Frances is writing a PhD about the expedition and the perspectives of its crew. He knows the Ex. Ex. Links from this episode: Read a whole lot more about the Ex. Ex. at the Smithsonian. Will's Twitter summary of why the Ex. Ex. is worth knowing about. Music from the Ex. Ex.: Reunion (Mistakes Are Ok Remix) — The XX Stranger in a Room — Jamie xx (ft. Oliver Sim) Hold Tight — Jamie xx Fiction (Marcus Worgull Remix) — The XX Sleep Sound — Jamie xx Reunion (Ame Remix) — The XX See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ex. Ex. (Will Scates Frances)

If you’re a fan of Serial, Law & Order, Making a Murderer, you’ve probably spent a bit of time watching TV police making people confess to their criminal acts and listening to witnesses place someone at the scene of the crime. But for the legal system, memory and confessions aren’t always as reliable as you think they are. Dr Celine Van Golde is the director of the Sydney Exoneration Project, which examines old convictions to look for wrongful imprisonment. Links from this episode: Read more about the Sydney Exoneration Project. Since we recorded this episode, Brendan Dassey’s conviction has been overturned. Music from this episode: Keep Running — New Venusians Single Serving Jack — The Dust Brothers (Fight Club soundtrack) Karle Pyaar Karle (from Sachaa Jhutha) — The Bombay Royale The Cold-Blooded Murder Of Deputy Vilmos Kovacs — Alexandre Desplat (Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack) Moving On — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford soundtrack) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Unreliability of Witness Testimony (Celine Van Golde)

  They're pretty much all guts, foot, teeth and maybe a bit of shell. Snails, limpets, octopuses or giant squid: they're all a kind of mollusc. You'll find one in almost every ecosystem in the world.  Sydney University's Professor Ross Coleman specialises in limpets and knows all his molluscs pretty well. He takes us from the Liverpool docks, to Blackwattle Bay, to the weirdest of mollusc sex. Links from this episode: The lowdown on molluscs of all kinds. Ross has written all sorts of papers, and most of them can be found here on Academia.edu. Read about cleaning up the Albert Dock in Liverpool, using mussels. (PDF) Music in this episode: River — Ibeyi Freedom Come — Gabriel le Mar Confessions of a Pig — Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett Back n Forth — Nimble Animal Sea of Love — Cat Power Space Monkeys — Dust Brothers See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Molluscs (Ross Coleman)

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