Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Raven Maragh-Lloyd on Black Networked Resistance
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can communities creatively adapt and reshape online practices to forge resilient digital publics? In episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy ...
Natalie Zervou on Dance in the Age of Austerity
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between dance and politics has long been a complex one. In moments of national and international crisis, artists are often at the cen...
Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda on Mujeres de Maiz
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 160 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda—three legendary feminist...
Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How has the Silicon Valley form of technocapitalism shaped geographies around the world? In episode 159 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach int...
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the Visual Politics of Border Tunnels
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence? To help us think t...
Tamara Kneese on Death in the Digital Platform Age
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 157 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar and Ideas on Fire author Tamara Kneese about the complex relationsh...
Nicosia Shakes on Black Women's Activist Theater
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 156 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and artist Nicosia Shakes, whose creative and scholarly work celebrates t...
Meryl Alper on Autistic Kids’ Digital Media
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 155 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews disability media studies scholar Meryl Alper. Meryl is the author of 3 books abou...
Kristie Soares on Joy in Latinx Media
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 154 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews performance artist and gender studies scholar Kristie Soares about the political ...
Cynthia Franklin on Narrative and Activist Politics
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews literature professor Cynthia Franklin about the politics of life writing. Cynthia’s new book Narrating Humanity: L...
Magdalena Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales on The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 152 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews education scholars and leaders Magdalena L. Barrera and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzale...
Katie Walkiewicz on Indigenous and Black Freedom
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 151 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Indigenous studies and literature professor Katie Walkiewicz about states’ righ...
Jasmine Nichole Cobb on Haptic Blackness
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Black visual studies scholar Jasmine Nichole Cobb about haptic blackness and the cultural politics of Black hair in US...
Mairead Sullivan on Lesbian Feminist World-building
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews women’s and gender studies professor Mairead Sullivan about the histories and futures of lesbian feminism. Mairead...
Josen Masangkay Diaz on Postcolonial Configurations
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews ethnic studies and women and gender studies professor Josen Masangkay Diaz about US–Philippine relations during the ...
Erin Durban on the Sexual Politics of Empire
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews anthropologist Erin Durban about the past and present relationship between the United States and Haiti as it shapes th...
Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Anticolonial Solidarity Tourism
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist studies and ethnic studies professor Jennifer Lynn Kelly about her new book Invited to Witness. In their conv...
Josef Nguyen on the Politics of Flexibility
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Hannabach interviews digital media scholar Josef Nguyen about the promises and perils of flexible planning, why cultural anxieties over uncertai...
Anima Adjepong on Interdisciplinary Intuition
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The massive changes we’ve collectively experienced over the past two years of a global pandemic have caused many of us to ask some big questions abo...
Nitasha Tamar Sharma on Recalibration and Balance
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re reaching that time of year when the days shorten and we start to wonder if we’ll get everything done we wanted to this year. In this season,...
Catherine Knight Steele on Black Feminist Extensions of Grace
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews digital studies scholar and professor Catherine Knight Steele, whose work reveals the central role Black women and Bla...
Christopher Ali on Building a More Connected World
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even before the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to reliable, high-performance broadband internet was a necessity for many of us to be able to meaning...
Sandra Ristovska on Seeing Human Rights
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and media studies scholar Sandra Ristovska about the complex ethical, political, and legal relationship betw...
Jessica Bissett Perea on Indigenous Transformations in Academic Publishing
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Publishing plays a central role in higher education, primarily through the hiring, tenure, and promotion process. Because of this, transforming academ...
Priya Kandaswamy on Embracing Permanent Change
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all experienced a LOT of change over the past year and a half. Many of the things we assumed to be stable anchors suddenly turned out not to b...
Mark Villegas on Collaborative Abundance in Hip-Hop Cultures
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and hip-hop scholar Mark Villegas, who has built his career foregrounding the power of collective abundance....
Maile Arvin on Kuleana and Indigenous Feminist Community
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Community building is a cornerstone of progressive social and intellectual movements. Resisting capitalist individualism, we know how vital social bon...
Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla on Cite Black Women
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Centuries of Black feminist intellectuals have demonstrated how knowledge production is always deeply political, revealing whose labor and lives we va...
Liat Ben-Moshe on Community beyond the Carceral State
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Movements organized around disability justice, prison and police abolition, queer and trans feminism, and economic justice have long shown how interse...
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Cultivating Joy through Queer Black Feminist Art
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few years, we’ve seen more and more vibrant intersectional and interdisciplinary cultural production get the attention it so richly de...
J. Faith Almiron on Abolitionist Pedagogy within and beyond Institutions
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Building an abolitionist university or museum requires more than just updating some policies. It requires rethinking from the ground up what we want o...
La Marr Bruce on Renewal, Loss, and Black Creativity
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As scholars, we often like to think we have everything under control. We work hard to meet deadlines, fulfill our responsibilities, and get everything...
Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart on Transgenerational Inspiration
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is normally a time of emergence and inspiration but many scholars, artists, and organizers are struggling after a year spent inside and a pande...
Badia Ahad-Legardy on Black Historical Joy and Inspiration
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can looking to the past enliven the present and inspire the future? And how can we foment that inspiration in our daily practices and habits? In e...
Gwen D’Arcangelis on Inspiration for Scholar-Activists
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For those of us in the social justice-oriented interdisciplines like gender studies, ethnic studies, and disability studies, our desire to make real p...
Dolores Inés Casillas on Flexible Planning with Bullet Journals
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our systems for tracking and making progress on our goals are often deeply personal and idiosyncratic. How we organize our days to find motivation cha...
Meredith D. Clark on Adapting Plans to Where You’re At
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even our best-laid plans go awry sometimes and require us to adjust on the fly. Whether it’s throwing out our timeline for publication or experiment...
Chris Barcelos on Beginning from Educated Hope
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the beginning of a new year and normally that would mean a flurry of ambitious new projects, goals, and plans to achieve them both. But ten mon...
Siobhan Brooks on Reckoning with Violence
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the cliché, 2020 really is one for the history books. Between a global pandemic disproportionately harming communities of color, racist and a...
Bakirathi Mani on Curating with Confidence
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The collaborative art of curation is one that takes a complex mixture of confidence and humility. Curators need confidence in their choices and artist...
Jillian Hernandez on the Politics of Confidence and Creativity
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Women and girls are constantly bombarded with messages to be more confident. Although such advice might be useful for some, it doesn’t account for h...
Aimi Hamraie on Sustainability and Disability Justice
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does disability justice provide tools for building more sustainable social relations and practices, both during and beyond the current pandemic? I...
Anusha Kedhar on the Limits of Flexibility
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The dance world and academia are two creative industries known for innovative thinking and vibrant collaborations. But they also share a sustainabilit...
Sasha Engelmann on Art and Activism in the Air
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do politics, community, and artistic resistance look like beyond the terrestrial? What would happen if we took them to the sky? In episode 119 of...
Christopher Persaud on Creating Balance to Avoid Burnout
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For those of us who thrive on doing all the things, it is incredibly easy to put off rest and self-care—at least until we hit burnout. Scholars, art...
Koritha Mitchell on Homemade Citizenship
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How might the history of Black women’s creative homemaking and citizenship practices help us navigate our current political and cultural moment? Wha...
Kishonna Gray on Teaching and Parenting in a Pandemic
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest concerns right now for academics who are also parents is figuring out how to juggle education for both their students and their chi...
Adrienne Shaw on Accessible Online Teaching by Design
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build accessible online courses in the middle of a pandemic? More than just a call to reproduce in-person teaching in digital environments,...
Dorinne Kondo on Reparative Creativity
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What role can performance play in racial justice struggles? How can theater help us remake the world? The past several months have made even more u...
Ani Maitra on Media and Identity in the Public Sphere
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The mediated politics of identity have animated movements as diverse as anticolonial nationalisms, multiple forms of feminism, transgender and disabil...
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Black Feminist Interdisciplinarity
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What would happen if we threw out the boundaries between academic disciplines? How would our collective histories, conflicts, and corporealities chang...
Porchia Moore on Cultural Heritage and Collective Freedom
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does cultural heritage provide us with the tools to shape what collective freedom looks, sounds, and feels like? This question and its political s...
Juana María Rodríguez and Emma Pérez on Writing Partnerships
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Given everything that’s going on in the world right now, writing is the last thing on many people’s minds. Amidst the uncertainty, anxiety, and g...
Hunter Vaughan on the Ecological Impact of Media Technologies
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Among the many effects of the recent pandemic and social distancing practices is that most of us find ourselves spending more and more time with scree...
Miriam Zoila Pérez on Reproductive Justice and Community in Precarious Times
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does a reproductive justice approach to healthcare change the way we understand childbirth and pregnancy? How can we draw on our holistic, embodie...
Meghnaa Tallapragada on Science in the Public Sphere
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s commonplace to hear claims that in our current historical moment science has become politicized, as climate crises, vaccines, and genetic modif...
Rebecca Wanzo on Visibility and African American Comics
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What role have Black cartoonists played in the history of superheroes, weekend newspaper funnies, and graphic biographies? How have they harnessed the...
Sasha Costanza-Chock on Design Justice
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can putting marginalized people at the very center of design and technology change the world for the better? This is the question that has motivat...
Elizabeth Wayne and Christine "Xine" Yao on Podcasting Across the STEM/Humanities Divide
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a biomedical engineer and a literary studies scholar set out to produce a podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across...
Christopher B. Patterson on Writing as Resistance and Refusal
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is at stake when we choose to write in one genre over another? Why does our name shape how our work is taken up in the world? How might we harnes...
Amy Lam on Feminist Travel Writing
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews podcaster, travel writer, and journalist Amy Lam about the power of feminist podcasting, how histories of race and col...
Malinda Maynor Lowery on Lumbee Storytelling
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why are interdisciplinary methodologies so important for telling American Indian histories? How does Indigenous documentary filmmaking and television ...
Cathy Hannabach on 3 Years of Imagine Otherwise
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 100th episode of Imagine Otherwise! Host Cathy Hannabach reflects on the past 3 years of interviewing artists, filmmakers, chefs, dancers,...
Kiki Petrosino on Writing from the Body
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are both our bodies and our creative work haunted by history's ghosts? How does place and historical geography transform the work we do in the cla...
Fobazi Ettarh on the Limits of Vocational Awe
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can radical librarianship forge solidarity across the university's faculty, students, librarians, and greater community? How does “vocational aw...
Melody Jue on Thinking Through Seawater
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can thinking with the sea shifting the foundations of humanities research? How does the ocean challenge terrestrial bias in standpoint epistemolog...
Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are Black women artists harnessing texture, transparency, and bafflement to forge forms of belonging beyond the nation? How might the vulnerabilit...
Anthony Romero on Sound and Socially Engaged Art
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can we bring socially engaged art into the classroom without losing its community focus? What are the possibilities and limitations of building ar...
Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can writers better translate their work for varied genres and audiences? How are Black and Brown artists challenging the presumed whiteness of par...
Amber Jamilla Musser on Valuing Embodied Knowledge
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How might the abstraction of aesthetics help us think through the fleshy materiality of race and gender? How would valuing bodily knowledge transform ...
Sandra Ruiz on Resetting the Colonial Clock
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are artists, activists, and communities resetting the colonial clock? What does it mean to reinterpret political actions as insurgent performances...
Tania Lizarazo on Listening and Learning Together
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to value storytelling as a form of knowledge production? How can we develop collaborative research projects with the communities to ...
Alix Olson on Transitioning from Performer to Professor
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Why did so many feminist performers and artists of a certain generation transition into academic careers? How can scholars and activists mobilize beyo...
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas on Leaving No One Behind
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can children's literature help us make sense of an ever-changing world? Why is speculative fiction having such a moment in contemporary popular cu...
Denne Michele Norris on QTPOC Literary Worlds
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How might difference be reframed as avenue toward sharing collective power instead of a source of conflict? How can the literary world better encourag...
Jenn M. Jackson on Black Feminist Love and Community Building
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are Black feminists challenging tired savior narratives in favor of robust and fully human forms of admiration? How can scholars unlearn some of t...
Larisa Kingston Mann on DJ Dreams and Radical Publics
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do radical music cultures help us rethink differently copyright and global cultural production? What does it mean to put theory and creative pract...
Nadine Hubbs on Listening Queerly
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How might we interrogate the sociocultural dimensions of music through queer, class-conscious, and anti-racist frameworks? How can teachers of all sub...
Marisol LeBrón on an Anti-Colonial Abolitionist Praxis
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do punitive governance like policing and natural disasters like Hurricane Maria reveal the ongoing colonial relationship between the US and Puerto...
Jade S. Sasser on Reproductive Justice and Climate Change
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do the racist and misogynist histories of population control shape current debates over climate change? How is the reproductive justice movement s...
Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón on Women Graffiti Artists
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are women shaking up the global hip hop graffiti scene? What does social justice curation look like? How does feminist graffiti offer vibrant insi...
Alyshia Gálvez on NAFTA and Transnational Food Justice
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is the link between global trade policies and the food on our plates? How can scholars of globalization and migration translate their work so as ...
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui on Hawaiian Sovereignty
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can independent media amplify Indigenous politics? What do the politics of land, gender, and sexuality tell us about the paradox of Hawaiian sover...
Jenny L. Davis on Indigenous Language Revitalization
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does Indigenous language revitalization look like in our contemporary digital age? How might language learning and capacity building work outside...
Jian Neo Chen on Trans of Color Art and Activism
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can a transnational, trans of color aesthetics remake the world? How has transgender studies changed what academic publishing looks like in the di...
Aimee Bahng on Speculating from the Undercommons
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How might speculative fiction help educators teach gender and ethnic studies to their students? What would it mean to reimagine the Pacific in an anti...
Craig Santos Perez on a Decolonial and Demilitarized Pacific
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How might the world be transformed by honoring Pacific experiences? What can communal storytelling teach us about decolonial ways of knowing? How can ...
Macarena Gómez-Barris on Fighting Extractive Capitalism
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What new pathways emerge when we theorize from the undercurrents? How can art challenge the corrosive logics of racial and extractive capitalism? What...
Veronica Corzo-Duchardt on Art Between Worlds
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do we organize truly intersectional artistic collaboration across time and space? What might running a small business teach us about the creative ...
Imani Perry on Love as an Ethic
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What tools does feminism provide for dismantling domination? What might be possible when our work aligns with what nourishes our spirit? How might we ...
Manuela Lavinas Picq on Indigenous Futures
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do Indigenous forms of governance provide models for organizing beyond the state? How might scholars better work alongside of and in the best inte...
Francesca T. Royster on Writing Courageously
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How does music enable us to dream up a different world? What does respecting your audience look like as a writer? How can we empower young people acce...
Stacie Williams on the Radical Librarianiship
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What politics shape information management and access to knowledge? What are the social and environmental implications of ubiquitous digital preservat...
Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Diasporic Aesthetics
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How might a queer lens unearth different conceptions of space and place? How do queer diasporic artists use aesthetics to forge transnational connecti...
Heath Fogg Davis on Gender's Administration
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do we really need sex classification in our education system, our public restrooms, or our government IDs? How can we alleviate some of the harm that ...
Aimi Hamraie on the Politics of Disability and Design
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How has the concept of Universal Design and its application to architectural practice changed over the years? Who is left out of design practices tha...
Sami Schalk on Disability and Black Women's Speculative Fiction
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How does speculative fiction provide us models for more queer, just, and creative futures? How are Black women novelists helping us reimagine what (di...
Bianca Laureano on Feminist Afro-Latinx Sex Education
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How might we create a world where intersectional feminist, sex-positive sex education is the norm? What new avenues of liberation are opened up when w...
Tavia Nyong'o on Revolutionary Queer Imaginaries
06 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What is the negative capacity of art and how does it let us imagine otherwise? What tools does queer of color critique offer for building new worlds? ...
Tina Campt on Listening to Images
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to listen to images? Why do images seem to be haunted by their contexts of production? How are marginalized communities using the in...