Imagine Otherwise
A podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures
On each episode, host Cathy Hannabach interviews the scholars, dancers, authors, artists, and filmmakers imagining collective freedom and creating it through culture.
Latest episodes
Imagine Otherwise: Koritha Mitchell on Homemade Citizenship
About the episodeHow might the history of Black women’s creative homemaking and citizenship practices help us navigate our current political and cultural moment? What might this history reveal about the racially gendered roots of blurred work and home boundaries? In...
Imagine Otherwise: Kishonna Gray on Teaching and Parenting in a Pandemic
About the episodeOne of the biggest concerns right now for academics who are also parents is figuring out how to juggle education for both their students and their children. Many K–12 and higher education institutions have moved to remote instruction for the fall...
Imagine Otherwise: Adrienne Shaw on Accessible Online Teaching by Design
About the episodeToday’s episode tackles something many of you are navigating right now: how to take your courses online in the middle of a pandemic while making them truly accessible to students and faculty alike. More than just a call to reproduce in-person teaching...
Imagine Otherwise: Dorinne Kondo on Reparative Creativity
About the episodeWhat role can performance play in racial justice struggles? How can theater help us remake the world? The past several months have made even more urgent the centuries-long fight to dismantle the antiblackness and Orientalism that are baked into our...
Imagine Otherwise: Ani Maitra on Media and Identity in the Public Sphere
The mediated politics of identity have animated movements as diverse as anticolonial nationalisms, multiple forms of feminism, transgender and disability rights struggles, and Indigenous protests for environmental justice. In all of these examples, media has been a...
Imagine Otherwise: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity
What would happen if we threw out the boundaries between academic disciplines? How would our collective histories, conflicts, and corporealities change if we stopped assuming that art, science, and politics have ever been separate projects? Today's guest, Zakiyyah...
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Why Imagine Otherwise?
To make more of us.
We need more progressive, social justice-oriented folks who combine the intellectual platform and methodologies of academia, the creativity and wonder of art, and the fire and rage of social justice activism to create the worlds we want. We need more brilliant books that ignite ideas, more art that sparks protests, more activism that historicizes and critiques, and more communities that can enact the change they need.
This show highlights the kick-ass, worldmaking cultural productions that people are collaboratively generating at the nexus of art, activism, and academia. Maybe it will inspire you to create your own.
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