Imagine Otherwise
A podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futuresOn each episode, host Cathy Hannabach interviews the scholars, dancers, authors, artists, and filmmakers imagining collective freedom and creating it through culture.
Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla on Cite Black Women
Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla about the Cite Black Women movement.
Liat Ben-Moshe on Community beyond the Carceral State
Cathy Hannabach interviews Liat Ben-Moshe about the intersections of disability justice and prison abolition.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Cultivating Joy through Queer Black Feminist Art
Cathy Hannabach interviews Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about centering queer Black feminist joy in literature and life.
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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.
Aimee Bahng on Speculating from the Undercommons
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Aimee Bahng about speculative fiction, queer of color feminist futures, and challenging US colonialism.
Craig Santos Perez on a Decolonial and Demilitarized Pacific
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Craig Santos Perez about Indigenous Chamoru poetry as a social justice practice and communal storytelling.
Macarena Gómez-Barris on Fighting Extractive Capitalism
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Macarena Gómez-Barris about using art to fight extractive capitalism and the politics of translation.
Veronica Corzo-Duchardt on Art Between Worlds
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Veronica Corzo-Duchardt about research-based art practice and intersectional creative collaboration.
Imani Perry on Love as an Ethic
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Imani Perry about critiquing patriarchy, writing as self-care, and redefining productivity.
Manuela Lavinas Picq on Indigenous Futures
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Manuela Lavinas Picq about Kichwa women in international politics and being a scholar in the Global South.
Francesca T. Royster on Writing Courageously
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Francesca T. Royster about the queer afterlives of soul music and the power of storytelling.
Stacie Williams on Radical Librarianship
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Stacie Williams about the politics of information, radical librarianship, and digital preservation.