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Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a white settler musicker, radio/podcast producer, community organiser, and thinker-scholar living on the unceded land of the Jagera, Yuggera Ugarapul and Turrbal Peoples.

Their work and thinking are rooted in queer/trans and disabled collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other “holobionts with history”—soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, complicities, and narratives, exploring the emergent possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community (soundmaking as kinmaking: “musickin”).

As a flutist and electronic musician, Han plays solo under the moniker cyberBanshee, and with Magan-djin’s radically inclusive symphonic pop collective Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, as well as improv experimentalism trios Rogue Three and It’s Science And Feelings. Recent performance highlights include OHM Festival of Other Music (2024), QMusic Awards (2024), BLEACH* Festival (2023), Easter at the Piano Mill (2017–2023), and Woodford Folk Festival (2021/22 and 2022/23). In 2019/2020 they curated the concert series Kin-Makers presented by Brisbane City Council and Arts Queensland through Creative Sparks. They have performed frequently at national and international festivals in Australia, Europe, South-East Asia, and the USA. Han has a PhD from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University (2017–2021) and an Advanced Master in Contemporary Music Performance at the School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium (2014–2016), and is sought after as a speaker on radically inclusive improvised musickin(g).

Han recently completed their postdoctoral fellowship (2021–2025), working alongside Wiradjuri trans/non-binary Professor Sandy O’Sullivan on their projects QUEER AS and Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQA+ creative artists in the Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies and the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures (Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, on Dharug Country). They are one of the community organising thinker-troublemakers behind the Brisbane Free University, its Radical Reading Group, and its 4ZZZ community radio and podcast offshoot, the Radio Reversal Collective.

Han is queer, trans-nonbinary, and multiply disabled (hEDS/POTS/ A[u]DHD/C-PTSD), and their creative and thinking practices are informed by Disability Justice, trans/queer liberation, Indigenous-led anti-colonial activism, ecological thinkings, mutual aid, abolition, transformative justice, and community.

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