Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar, playwright, and dramaturg Dorinne Kondo about liveness, theater accessibility, and theorizing vulnerability.
Performance Studies Resources
Imagine Otherwise: Meghnaa Tallapragada on Science in the Public Sphere
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Meghnaa Tallapragada about science communication and interdisciplinary public engagement.
Imagine Otherwise: Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews journalist and educator Emilly Prado about writing across genre and Black and Brown artivism in Portland.
Imagine Otherwise: Sandra Ruiz on Resetting the Colonial Clock
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Sandra Ruiz about Puerto Rican anti-colonial resistance, performance, and radical curation.
Imagine Otherwise: Alix Olson on Transitioning from Performer to Professor
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews poet and professor Alix Olson about career transitions, pedagogy, queer kinship, and the limits of resilience.
Imagine Otherwise: Larisa Kingston Mann on DJ Dreams and Radical Publics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Larisa Kingston Mann about copyright law, Jamaican popular music, and activist accountability.
Imagine Otherwise: Nadine Hubbs on Listening Queerly
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Nadine Hubbs about listening queerly and Latinx millennials’ relationship to American country music.
Imagine Otherwise: Jian Neo Chen on Trans of Color Art and Activism
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Jian Neo Chen about transgender studies publishing and drawing academic inspiration from art and activism.
Imagine Otherwise: Tavia Nyong’o on Revolutionary Queer Imaginaries
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Tavia Nyong’o about the ongoing project of abolition and centering queer of color joy.
Imagine Otherwise: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Disability Justice
Host Cathy hannabach interviews Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about the history and present of the disability justice movement.
Imagine Otherwise: Manuel Cuellar on Dancing as Community Building
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Manuel Cuellar about queering Mexican folkloric dance and interdisciplinary teaching.
Imagine Otherwise: Shaka McGlotten on the Passion of Inquiry
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Shaka McGlotten about the passion of inquiry, drag as a political intervention, and imagining otherwise.