This week on Race Matters, Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis are joined by writer Tyree Barnette, who is a part of the Western Sydney Sweatshop collective – a literacy movement devoted to empowering groups and individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Exploring his piece Being an African-American in Australia, we discuss the hierarchy of Blackness in Australia, comparing American and Australian notions of racism, and how to turn feelings of rage, violation and powerlessness into hope and resistance. Catch Tyree speaking as part of the Nick Cave x Sweatshop readings at Carriageworks on Saturday 2 March – 11am, and it's free! You can purchase writing from Sweatshop from their website.