In episode one of Shifting Subjects, Lisa explores her love/hate fascination with Australian Rules Football by speaking with three Asian Australians who live and breathe it.
What drew them in? What keeps them coming back? As racialised people, how do they find space within sporting cultures that have a well-documented history of racism?
In this episode you’ll meet Geelong Cats superfan Shamsiya Hussainpoor; Collingwood AFLW midfielder Joanna Lin; and player manager Jamie Pi, who once personally commentated a game for Xi Jinping.
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Credits
Written, cut and hosted by Lisa Divissi
Supervising production and mixing by Jon Tjhia
Fact checking by Mell Chun
Theme music by Marcus Whale
Additional music, including original compositions by AnSo
Published by Leah Jing McIntosh
Executive production by Lisa Divissi
Special thanks this episode to Joe Sullivan and Timothy Miller
Shifting Subjects is a LIMINAL podcast and a proud member of the Broadwave podcast network. It is supported by City of Melbourne Arts Grants and Creative Victoria.
Links and further reading, listening and watching…
Podcasts
The Outer Sanctum has sadly hung up its boots, but it doesn’t take away from the amazing achievement of its contributors in delivering warm, thoughtful, smart and passionate analysis of footy, both on an industry and spectator level. The back issues are worth combing through
To continue your sports + audio journey, Pink Card is part memoir, sports drama, social history and caper tracing the role of women and soccer in Iranian history; told by Shima Oliaee (Dolly Parton’s America, RadioLab) I’m on episode three so far and it’s sooo good
Film and TV
The Australian Dream (2019) tells the story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. This is a great place to start when learning about race relations in Australia’s history and sporting cultures
Reading
Lin Jong speaks with Robert Wood for an interview in Liminal magazine (2021)
Rana Hussain on her role as a diversity consultant for the AFL by Marnie Vinall in the Saturday Paper (2021)
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