December is a time for reflection, when we look back at what has happened throughout the year and make plans for what we want to bring into being in the new one. It also brings Ideas on Fire’s annual “year in review” post highlighting some of the most exciting things to come out of IoF in the last 12 months.
2019 has been a fantastically exciting year for us at Ideas on Fire.
New team members!
Laura Poole 
Talak Khanmalek 
Shazia Iftkhar 
Rachel Fudge 
Morgan Genevieve Blue 
Melanie Adley
We welcomed 6 new folks to the Ideas on Fire team this year! Copyeditors Laura Poole and Rachel Fudge, developmental editor Shazia Iftkhar, indexer and developmental editor Morgan Genevieve Blue, indexer Melanie Adley, and writer Tala Khanmalek have been hard at work helping our clients meet their writing and publishing goals.
We produced 23 episodes of the Imagine Otherwise podcast featuring
- Jenny L. Davis on Indigenous Language Revitalization
- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui on Hawaiian Sovereignty
- Alyshia Gálvez on NAFTA and Transnational Food Justice
- Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón on Women Graffiti Artists
- Jade S. Sasser on Reproductive Justice and Climate Change
- Marisol LeBrón on an Anti-Colonial Abolitionist Praxis
- Nadine Hubbs on Listening Queerly
- Larisa Kingston Mann on DJ Dreams and Radical Publics
- Jenn M. Jackson on Black Feminist Love and Community Building
- Dennis Norris II on QTPOC Literary Worlds
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas on Leaving No One Behind
- Alix Olson on Transitioning from Performer to Professor
- Tania Lizarazo on Listening and Learning in Public
- Sandra Ruiz on Resetting the Colonial Clock
- Amber Jamilla Musser on Valuing Embodied Knowledge
- Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
- Anthony Romero on Sound and Socially Engaged Art
- Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
- Melody Jue on Thinking Through Seawater
- Fobazi Ettarh on the Limits of Vocational Awe
- Kiki Petrosino on Writing from the Body
We celebrated 100 episodes of Imagine Otherwise!
Check out host Cathy Hannabach introducing some of the best moments from the past 3 years of the show:
We delivered 13 professionalization workshops
- Wellness for Academics, Scholars, and Other Cultural Workers
- Academic Politics for New and Contingent Faculty
- Making Career Decisions in an Era of Uncertainty
- A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Endnotes and Footnotes
- Surviving Job Burnout within and Beyond the Academy
- Resisting Academic Busyness and Taking Weekends Off
- How to Do Meaningful Community-Engaged Teaching and Scholarship
- How to Move to a New City (Again) and Settle In
- Writing a Student-Centered Syllabus that Saves You Time
- Fostering Intellectual Community in Your Academic Workplace
- Tips for Teaching toward Inclusive Excellence
- How to Say No and Yes to Academic Service Requests
- Managing the End-of-Term Crunch with Energy to Spare
We sponsored Dismantle magazine’s public scholarship workshop
The January 2020 session is open for enrollment now!
We published 14 articles helping interdisciplinary scholars rock their careers and lives
- Why and How to Write a Book Review
- Daily Self-Care Practices for Your Wellness Routine
- How to Write a Great Speaker or Author Bio
- Teaching Students How to Use Archival Sources
- Turning a Side Project into a Career: A Peek Behind the Scenes with Dismantle
- Using Recursive Outlines for Writing
- Mental Health in Academia: How Departments Can Support Faculty, Staff, and Students
- A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes at ACES
- The Brave New World of Remote Online Teaching
- The Benefits of Creative Writing
- Diversity, Plain Language, and Scholarship at Editors Canada 2019
- Jumpstarting an Interdisciplinary Oral History Project
- Practical Strategies for Taking Notes
- How to Clean and Organize Your Computer Desktop
We worked with 55 clients on topics including
- How rural broadband policy is reshaping US farms and farming communities
- Queer Black theater techniques in the Black Arts Movement
- Los Angeles suburbs and their role in globalization
- Readership and sexuality in the history of the Black press
- The queer video games avant-garde
- Indigenous/Black solidarities across literature and culture
- The use of affect in South Korean union organizing
- Queering the legacies of Black liberalism
- Trans of color performance and visual art
- Design justice movements
- US media representations of Africa
- Transgender and disability bathroom activism
- Solidarity politics in postconflict Colombia
- Transnational queer Korean politics
- African American comics and the politics of citizenship
- Black women in STEM fields
- Feminist labor histories of the Polaroid Corporation
- Social justice gaming
- Race and Deleuzian film theory
- Queer Cuban and Mexican visual culture
- Intralatinx identities in Chicago
- Legacies of colonial copyright law in Jamaica
- The history of identity politics in the US
- The role of architecture in Russian film history
- Human rights video activism
- And so many more!
And 23 Ideas on Fire clients published books this year! (We loved working on these!)
Thank you SO much to all of you who supported us, hired us, appeared on or listened to our podcast, wrote for or read our blog, or created your own world-changing social justice work.
We are looking forward to an awesome 2020, thanks to you.
You rock!
