Cathy Hannabach interviews Badia Ahad-Legardy about Black historical joy and cultivating intellectual and political inspiration in our daily practices.
literary studies and comparative literature resources
Koritha Mitchell on Homemade Citizenship
Cathy Hannabach interviews cultural critic and professor Koritha Mitchell about the history of Black women’s citizenship and achievement.
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews interdisciplinary feminist scholar Zakiyyah Iman Jackson about the role of blackness in histories of the human.
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.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Disability Justice
Host Cathy hannabach interviews Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about the history and present of the disability justice movement.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Radical Memoir
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about how queer brown and disabled people write themselves into history.