Imagine Otherwise Podcast
A podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures
Imagine Otherwise is a podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures.
Created and hosted by Cathy Hannabach and produced by Ideas on Fire, Imagine Otherwise features interviews with scholars, cultural producers, dancers, editors, artists, and activists who are building new worlds.
Cathy created the show in 2016 to both demonstrate the vibrant public voice that interdisciplinary scholars can have beyond the academy as well as to inspire new generations of thinkers.
Episodes have been taught in a wide array of university classrooms, been featured in international art exhibits, and taken Cathy to live tapings at venues as diverse as feminist circus art performances, scholarly conferences, and a culture lab on convergence.
The show’s programming partners have included the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Cultural Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and more.
Episodes
Katie Walkiewicz on Indigenous and Black Freedom
Cathy Hannabach interviews Katie Walkiewicz about the role of states’ rights in US settler colonialism, enslavement, and dispossession.
Jasmine Nichole Cobb on Haptic Blackness
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jasmine Nichole Cobb about haptic blackness and the cultural politics of Black hair in US visual culture.
Mairead Sullivan on Lesbian Feminist World-building
Cathy Hannabach interviews women’s and gender studies professor Mairead Sullivan about the histories and futures of lesbian feminism.
Josen Masangkay Diaz on Postcolonial Configurations
Cathy Hannabach interviews ethnic studies scholar Josen Masangkay Diaz about US–Philippine relations during the Cold War and Filipino America today.
Erin Durban on the Sexual Politics of Empire
Cathy Hannabach interviews Erin Durban about how the relationship between the US and Haiti shapes the lives of queer and trans Haitians.
Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Anticolonial Solidarity Tourism
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jennifer Lynn Kelly about the temporality of ethnographic research and letting our writing projects change over time.
Josef Nguyen on the Politics of Flexibility
Cathy Hannabach interviews digital media scholar Josef Nguyen about the promises and perils of flexible planning in education, work, and life.
Anima Adjepong on Interdisciplinary Intuition
Cathy Hannabach interviews Anima Adjepong about intuition in the research process, intellectual promiscuity, and their book Afropolitan Projects.
Nitasha Tamar Sharma on Recalibration and Balance
Cathy Hannabach interviews Nitasha Tamar Sharma about balance and recalibrating work and life across one’s interdisciplinary career.
Catherine Knight Steele on Black Feminist Extensions of Grace
Cathy Hannabach interviews Catherine Knight Steele about extensions of grace, collaboration, and the future of Black digital studies.
Christopher Ali on Building a More Connected World
Cathy Hannabach interviews Christopher Ali about the politics of of rural broadband access and connectivity.
Sandra Ristovska on Seeing Human Rights
Cathy Hannabach interviews Sandra Ristovska about the ethical, political, and legal relationship between imagery and human rights.