Signal Boosting

Ideas on Fire has partnered with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Association for Asian American Studies to produce the Signal Boosting podcast miniseries.

Each week during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, on the Imagine Otherwise podcast we are highlighting an emerging scholar who is building new audiences for the field of Asian American studies.

The Signal Boosting miniseries aims to show how interdisciplinary scholars, activists, and artists are producing socially engaged work in multimedia forms, as well as inspire you to create your own.

Tara Fickle on Asian American Game Studies

Imagine Otherwise episode 35

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Tara Fickle about why video games are such fruitful sites for understanding racial formation.

Leah Milne on the Good Trouble of Racial Justice

Imagine Otherwise episode 36

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Leah Milne about a pedagogy of discomfort and using the classroom to teach radical empathy.

Emily Hue on Burmese Performance Art

Imagine Otherwise episode 37

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Emily Hue about creativity and resistance in Burmese refugee performance art.

Surbhi Malik on Diasporic Radio

Imagine Otherwise episode 38

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Surbhi Malik about diasporic radio production and mentoring students’ whole, complex selves.

Lila Sharif on the Settler Colonial Politics of Food

Imagine Otherwise episode 39

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Lila Sharif about the role of food in both transnational settler colonialism and Palestinian resistance to it.