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A program by and about women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Accent of Women connects political change to women's testimony, labour organising and feminist resistance across several countries.
Accent of Women builds political understanding through sustained interviews with women living inside struggles over state power, labour, race and gender.
A casino strike puts its union leader on the mic; your headline has to make room for her.
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Chim Sitar's prison release frames a focused account of union organizing and labor repression in Cambodia.
Chim Sitar's release from prison gives this Accent of Women episode its first charge. She returns to the Naga World hotel and casino dispute in Phnom Penh, where workers kept organizing after mass layoffs and a strike drew a violent police crackdown.
A measured interview on how personal anger can become political work through community radio.
Marisa Escozaro traces a life in community radio back to childhood: blindness, an Italian migrant family, limited access to books, and early feminist and activist instincts.
A measured account of the JVP's rural support, anti-corruption appeal, and uneasy record on minorities.
The JVP's election in Sri Lanka opens onto the harder question of what a supposedly Marxist party now represents when much of its backing comes from rural communities squeezed by economic crisis, climate change, and a limited state response.
A young Hazara woman's account turns the Taliban takeover into a close story of fear, family, and a medical dream at risk.
Faiza is preparing for medical university when the Taliban returns to power and bans education for women. Accent of Women keeps her account grounded in a single frightening day in Kabul: tanks and soldiers appear, a taxi becomes hard to find, and the trip home ends with a family…
A serious look at Iranian feminist resistance, framed by the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan.
The episode sets Iran's Woman Life Freedom movement alongside the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, using the anniversaries to track women's resistance across the Middle Eastern and Western Asian region.
Vietnamese culture, argued and remembered aloud.
Systems change, told through community experience.
Australian history, heard from the street up.
This episode features a speech by Cynthia Honohui on climate justice and the ICJ campaign, framed by the host's introduction to the show's focus on women from diverse cultures.
Host Ximena interviews writer Natalia Figueroa Barroso about her experience writing in Spanish and her involvement in Latin American storytelling workshops.
An interview discussing the importance of mental health conversations across generations, particularly within culturally diverse families.
This episode of Accent of Women acknowledges International Day of People with Disability through interviews with First Nations advocates June Reamer and Kelly Cox, discussing disability, solidarity, and leadership.
This episode celebrates the launch of a Spanglish novel by a Uruguayan-Australian writer, exploring themes of identity, memory, and women's voices within multicultural Australia.
This episode analyzes a paper on how right-wing actors use gender theory as a symbolic glue to form coalitions in Europe.
An interview with Dr.
An interview with Pilar Aguilera about the extradition case of former Pinochet agent Adriana Rivas.
Host Zoe interviews Marisa Sposaro, a blind activist who has hosted the Dreamtime show on 3CR Community Radio for 25 years.
Host Neeta interviews Faiza, a 21-year-old Hazara woman in Afghanistan.
Accent of Women pairs Frida Afari's account of Iran's "Woman Life Freedom" movement with Sahar Sabah's description of Afghanistan after the Taliban's August 2021 return.