Jamila Rizvi is a writer, commentator, former Labor staffer and political junkie. She was raised in Canberra by her immigrant public service parents, joined the Labor Party at 18 and has worked for the Rudd and Gillard governments.

In this frank and funny chat, Jamila reflects on her political pragmatism, the “Labor tragedy” that was the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years and what her passionate exchange with Steve Price on The Project revealed to her about trolls, debate and PC.

The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd

First Contact series 2 starts Tuesday November 29th on SBS

jamilarizvi.com.au

@jamilarizvi 

Jamila’s writing on Mamamia

Jamila’s writing on news.com.au

change.org petition: Call for The Project to apologise to Steve Price live on air 

A message to Steve Price and his supporters: grow up and get over it by Clementine Ford

Cause of the Week: CARE Australia (care.org.au)

On the dancefloor at Mardi Gras this year, I met Tim Rosenberger. He is a gay, conservative, Republican law grad from Ohio. And he has supported Donald Trump’s candidacy for President of the United States. That candidacy was successful. And now we’re here.

Here I have a lengthy chat with Tim via Skype about why he thinks Trump and Pence will be good for LGBTIQ+ Americans, racial politics, “pussy-gate”, the electoral college, Clinton, climate change PC, identity politics and much more. I listened. It was hard and frustrating. But useful. I hope. #MAGA

The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd

Boundless Plains To Share at Belvoir Theatre in January 2017

Boundless Plains to Share at Adelaide Fringe in February 2017

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@twinksfortrump

Article: Aftermath – 16 writers on Trump’s America in The New Yorker

Article: Trump warms to Electoral College, 4 Years After Calling it a “Disaster For Democracy”

Article: Reports of anti-LGBTQ extremists tapped for major roles on President-Elect Trump’s transition

Article: Trump’s Muslim register database – an explainer on Vox

Article: The Democrats are screwing up the resistance to Donald Trump by Jamelle Bouie

Article: Bursting the Facebook bubble – we asked voters on the left and right to swap feeds

Article: Virginia’s governor restores voting rights for 13,000 felons

Article: China will soon trump America: the country is now the global leader in climate change reform 

Article: Trump in the White House – an interview with Noam Chomsky

Cause of the Week: Safe Schools Coalition (safeschoolscoalition.org.au), Log Cabin Republicans (logcabin.org)

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In these times of uncertainty and fear, I speak to my mum and dad.

Neil and Judy tell me about their political beliefs, the changes they’ve seen in their lifetime, what they make of the election of Donald Trump and how they think progressive change can happen.

I learnt and laughed a lot. I hope you enjoy it.

The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd

Boundless Plains To Share at Belvoir Theatre in January 2017

Boundless Plains to Share at Adelaide Fringe in February 2017

Article: Where the Devil is in the Detail by Julian Burnside 

Like I’m A Six-Year-Old LIVE! with Adam Bandt, Sunday December 4th

Article: Stop asking me to empathize with the white working class by Kali Holloway

Article: Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph by George Monbiot

Article: We need to understand why Trump won to stop it happening again by Osman Faruqi

Cause of the Week: Amnesty International (amnesty.org.au)

It happened. Donald J. Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.

I am very sad.

I don’t know about you, but I want to help. I want to make things better.

Support queer rights by donating to allout.org

Support refugees by donating to UNHCR Australia

Support the fight against climate change by donating to 350.org 

Support gender equality by donating to Emily’s List Australia

Slate’s Trumpcast

The Republic Repeals Itself by Andrew Sullivan

It was the rise of the Davos class that sealed America’s fate by Naomi Klein

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit by Glenn Greenwald

The Terrorists Have Won – Keith Olbermann

The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear by Jonathan Freedland

Stephen Colbert tries to make sense of all this

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Nur Warsame is Australia’s first openly gay imam.

Yep.

He’s an incredible man with a fascinating story that I think is really important to hear. If you’re like me and want to call out and stand up against any religious bigotry towards queer people BUT you also don’t want to pile on to the current shitstorm of Islamophobia that’s swirling around this country at the moment, there’s a lot to be learnt here from Nur. Here we discuss his journey to coming out publicly, what it’s cost him, how he reconciles his faith with his sexuality and how we can have better conversations about this stuff.

The World Keeps Happening is being filmed for Stan at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday December 3rd

Boundless Plains To Share at Belvoir Theatre in January 2017

Boundless Plains to Share at Adelaide Fringe in February 2017

Meet Australia’s First Openly Gay Imam on SBS’s The Feed

Article: Nur Warsame: Australia’s First Openly Gay Imam

Article: The secret mosques opening their doors to LGBTI Muslims

Nur on SBS’s Insight: How Do People Make High Stakes Decisions? 

Fields of Blood: Religion & The History of Violence by Karen Armstrong

Article: New national snapshot finds 60% of Australians would be concerned if a relative married a Muslim 

Article: Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds

Cause of the Week: Marhaba (@marhaba_Melb)

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