Cathy Hannabach interviews Katie Walkiewicz about the role of states’ rights in US settler colonialism, enslavement, and dispossession.
literary studies and comparative literature resources
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Cultivating Joy through Queer Black Feminist Art
Cathy Hannabach interviews Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about centering queer Black feminist joy in literature and life.
Badia Ahad-Legardy on Black Historical Joy and Inspiration
Cathy Hannabach interviews Badia Ahad-Legardy about Black historical joy and cultivating intellectual and political inspiration in our daily practices.
Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
Host Cathy Hannabach chats with artist Sarah Stefana Smith about a poetics and politics of bafflement, Black art, and artistic collaboration.
Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews journalist and educator Emilly Prado about writing across genre and Black and Brown artivism in Portland.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas on Leaving No One Behind
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about the power of children’s literature and Black speculative fiction.
Denne Michele Norris on QTPOC Literary Worlds
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Denne Michele Norris about the writing process, making publishing more accessible, and difference as strength.
Aimee Bahng on Speculating from the Undercommons
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Aimee Bahng about speculative fiction, queer of color feminist futures, and challenging US colonialism.
Craig Santos Perez on a Decolonial and Demilitarized Pacific
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Craig Santos Perez about Indigenous Chamoru poetry as a social justice practice and communal storytelling.
Imani Perry on Love as an Ethic
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Imani Perry about critiquing patriarchy, writing as self-care, and redefining productivity.
Stacie Williams on Radical Librarianship
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Stacie Williams about the politics of information, radical librarianship, and digital preservation.
Sami Schalk on Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Sami Schalk and Anastasia Kārkliņa discuss the racially gendered politics of disability and speculative fiction’s radical potential.