performance and theater studies Archives

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Larisa Kingston Mann about copyright law, Jamaican popular music, and activist accountability.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Nadine Hubbs about listening queerly and Latinx millennials’ relationship to American country music.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón about women graffiti writers, feminist curation, and Puerto Rican activism.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Jian Neo Chen about transgender studies publishing and drawing academic inspiration from art and activism.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Imani Perry about critiquing patriarchy, writing as self-care, and redefining productivity.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Tavia Nyong’o about the ongoing project of abolition and centering queer of color joy.

Host Cathy hannabach interviews Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about the history and present of the disability justice movement.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Manuel Cuellar about queering Mexican folkloric dance and interdisciplinary teaching.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Elizabeth Chin about dance’s role in academmic work and making space for your whole self in your career.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Shaka McGlotten about the passion of inquiry, drag as a political intervention, and imagining otherwise.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews musician and scholar Lakshmi Ramgopal (Lykanthea) about combining artistic and scholarly careers.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher about community engagement through performed poetry.

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