How to gracefully back out of a professional commitment you’ve already made, and how to extend grace when you are on the receiving end.
Resources: community building
Conference Participation When You Can’t Attend
Meaningful conference participation from afar is absolutely possible. Here’s how to stay engaged even if you can’t attend.
Nicosia Shakes on Black Women’s Activist Theater
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and artist Nicosia Shakes about political activism and performance across the African diaspora.
Kristie Soares on Joy in Latinx Media
Cathy Hannabach interviews Kristie Soares about the political power of pleasure, laughter, and joy in Latinx media.
Feminist Futures of Peer Review
How we are building intersectional feminist futures of peer review and a more just scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Editing as Worldmaking: Critical Generosity in Editorial Practice
Cathy Hannabach’s keynote address on how building critical generosity into editorial practice is a key way we build the worlds we want to inhabit.
Cynthia Franklin on Narrative and Activist Politics
Cathy Hannabach interviews Cynthia Franklin about movement politics, life writing, and radical solidarity beyond the human.
Magdalena L. Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales on The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Cathy Hannabach interviews Magdalena L. Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales about supporting Latinx graduate students in PhD and MA programs.
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.
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.
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.












