Host Cathy Hannabach interviews musician and scholar Lakshmi Ramgopal (Lykanthea) about combining artistic and scholarly careers.
Resources: history
Karen Jaime on Queer Puerto Rican Slam Poetry
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Karen Jaime about the history of QTPOC Puerto Rican poets and the classroom as performance space.
E. Patrick Johnson on Oral History and Creativity Rituals
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews E. Patrick Johnson about creativity rituals, Black gay storytelling, and artistic/scholarly collaboration.
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.
Simone Browne on the History of Anti-Black Surveillance
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Simone Browne about the history of Anti-Black surveillance and resistance to it.
Eric Tang on the Cold War Origins of Refugee Policy
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Eric Tang about activist scholarship and the history of Cold War Cambodian refugee resettlement.