Cathy Hannabach interviews Christopher Ali about the politics of of rural broadband access and connectivity.
Resources: film studies
Sandra Ristovska on Seeing Human Rights
Cathy Hannabach interviews Sandra Ristovska about the ethical, political, and legal relationship between imagery and human rights.
Ani Maitra on Media and Identity in the Public Sphere
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies scholar Ani Maitra about the interplay between identity, media, and capitalism.
Hunter Vaughan on the Ecological Impact of Media Technologies
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Hunter Vaughan about Hollywood and climate change, interdisciplinary science communication, and media industry futures.
Malinda Maynor Lowery on Lumbee Storytelling
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Malinda Maynor Lowery about telling Lumbee history, food television, and Indigenous political sovereignty.
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.
Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Diasporic Aesthetics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Gayatri Gopinath about queering visual culture, diasporic aesthetics, and mentoring queers of color.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls on Hip Hop’s Queer Aesthetics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Shanté Paradigm Smalls about queer hip hop, Shambhala Buddhist meditation, and disability.
Marcella Ernest on Native American Filmmaking and Podcasting
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ojibwe filmmaker and podcaster Marcella Ernest about feminist art, sound studies, and interdisciplinarity.
André Pérez on Transgender Oral History
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews André Pérez about storytelling and using film and oral history to empower trans of color communities.
Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film
Wazhmah Osman addresses the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and her critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah’s return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Black Feminist Anti-Violence Activism
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Aishah Shahidah Simmons about filmmaking and Black feminist anti-violence activism.
Aymar Jean Christian on Queer and Trans of Color Media Production
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media producer Aymar Jean Christian about OTV and independent QTPOC media making.