Host Cathy Hannabach interviews gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies scholar Priya Kandaswamy about embracing permanent change as a way to build more just social bonds in our classrooms, communities, and creative endeavors. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/138-priya-kandaswamy

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and scholar Mark Villegas about the power of collective abundance emerging from multiracial hip-hop cultures and how centering interdisciplinary abundance in our writing, publishing, and teaching can transform higher education and the worlds beyond. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/137-mark-villegas

Cathy Hannabach interviews Kānaka Maoli feminist scholar Maile Arvin, who explains why she approaches community building through the Native Hawaiian concept of kuleana, or a reciprocal relationship of responsibility. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/136-maile-arvin

Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla about the Cite Black Women movement, Black feminist approaches to anthropology, and editing a journal special issue about the racially gendered politics of citation. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/135-smith-davis-mulla

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Liat Ben-Moshe about the intersections of disability justice and prison abolition and what it takes to create a world beyond containment, confinement, and segregation. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/134-liat-ben-moshe

Cathy Hannabach interviews creative writer, scholar, and professor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about the political and ethical stakes of centering queer Black feminist pleasure in both literature and life. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/133-mecca-jamilah-sullivan

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and performance artist J. Faith Almiron about building an abolitionist future in art and education. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/132-j-faith-almiron

Cathy Hannabach interviews La Marr Bruce about his new book How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity and building a world of radical care and love after loss. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/131-la-marr-bruce

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Kānaka Maoli food studies scholar Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart about how Hi‘ilei’s approach to scholarly and activist inspiration brings the rich histories and futures of Indigenous community building to bear on her daily practices of writing and living during the pandemic. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/130-hiilei-julia-kawehipuaakahaopulani-hobart

How can looking to the past enliven the present and inspire the future? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar Badia Ahad-Legardy about the role of pleasure in motivating social change and how to cultivate intellectual and political inspiration in our daily practices. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/129-badia-ahad-legardy

How can we cultivate the inspiration we need to nourish ourselves and our communities as we collectively build the worlds we want? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar-activist Gwen D’Arcangelis about actively cultivating inspiration in our daily lives and staying motivated when writing about challenging topics like war and violence. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/128-gwen-darcangelis

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Chicanx media studies scholar Dolores Inés Casillas about the parenting lessons that led to Inés’s bullet journal-based publishing pipeline and academic diary. They also discuss how Inés links her goal of telling the stories of immigrant communities to her writing practice by calling on a robust support network of editors, colleagues, and friends. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/127-dolores-ines-casillas

Even our best-laid plans go awry sometimes and require us to adjust on the fly. Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies scholar and fellow planning enthusiast Meredith D. Clark about planning during the pandemic, tools to create consistency and support mental health, remaining open to failure and experimentation, and building a world in which everyone has enough. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/126-meredith-d-clark

How can beginning from educated hope help us build social justice projects in 2021? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews public health scholar Chris Barcelos about pivoting socially engaged research to fit new circumstances, how to foreground reproductive justice in public health campaigns, and why beginning with access intimacy and critical messiness is how Chris imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/125-chris-barcelos

Between racist and ableist police shootings, a global pandemic, and attacks on LGBTQ populations, we have a lot to reckon with at the end of 2020. Host Cathy Hannabach interviews sociologist Siobhan Brooks about what it means to reckon with violent histories without losing hope, how critique and creation intertwine in social justice scholarship, and why building a world free of violence is how Siobhan imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/124-siobhan-brooks

How are confidence and collaboration at play in South Asian postcolonial art and curation? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and curator Bakirathi Mani about her journey into art curation, how postcolonial artists and viewers navigate the colonial history of photography in art exhibitions, and why collectively building a world of representations that are no longer haunted by empire is how Bakirathi imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/123-bakirathi-mani

How do race, class, and gender shape confidence and who can embody it? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and professor Jillian Hernandez about the politics of confidence, how women and girls of color are challenging artistic social hierarchies, collective creative support during COVID-19, and why building a world where girls, women, femmes, and mothers of color can rest and resist is how Jillian imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/122-jillian-hernandez/

How does disability justice help us build more sustainable social relations, both during and beyond the current pandemic? In episode 121 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews permaculture designer and disability scholar Aimi Hamraie about how disability culture practices like slowness and mutual aid reimagine sustainability and why building a world beyond scarcity is how Aimi imagines otherwise. Transcript & show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/121-aimi-hamraie

Flexibility seems almost required in today’s economy and social worlds, but what is its cost? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews dancer and scholar Anusha Kedhar about the limits of flexible labor regimes in the dance world and higher education, sustainability lessons from dance that can help improve academic life, and why building a world around the needs and desires of marginalized groups is how Anusha imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/120-anusha-kedhar

What do politics, community, and artistic resistance look like beyond the terrestrial? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist geographical researcher and practitioner Sasha Engelmann about the transnational politics of atmosphere and breathing in an era of climate devastation, how to creatively adapt interdisciplinary research during a pandemic, and why collaboratively building an atmospheric commons is how Sasha imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes:...

Building rest and recovery into our schedules is more important than ever and requires managing projects with balance in mind. Host Cathy Hannabach interviews digital media scholar and creator Christopher Persaud about juggling diverse projects without getting overwhelmed, COVID-19 lessons to carry into the post-pandemic future, and why building a world where we are free to ask more questions is how Chris imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes:...

How might the history of Black women’s homemaking and citizenship practices help us navigate our current political and cultural moment? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews cultural critic and professor Koritha Mitchell about the history of Black women’s citizenship and achievement, how this history shapes academic life, what running and writing teach us about success, and why centering self-love is how Koritha imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes:...

How can academic parents juggle educating both their students and their children in the era of COVID-19? Host Cathy Hannabach and digital media professor Kishonna Gray discuss building feminist learning experiences that privilege experimentation, how academic parents and non-parents can structure working from home around their unique needs, and why approaching work and life from an ethics of care is how Kishonna imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes:...

How can we build accessible online courses in the middle of a pandemic? Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies professor Adrienne Shaw about building assignments that enable students to participate in diverse ways; why online teaching is often more accessible for faculty with chronic pain and other disabilities; and why creating accessible education systems by design rather than exception is how Adrienne imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes:...

How can theater help us remake the world? In episode 114 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Dorinne Kondo about how Asian American theater companies are reshaping liveness in the context of COVID-19, the role of performance in protests against the state-sponsored killing of Black people, and why theorizing a new relationship to vulnerability is how Dorinne imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/114-dorinne-kondo/