Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Chicanx media studies scholar Dolores Inés Casillas about flexible planning systems for scholars.
Posts by Cathy Hannabach
Planning Your Virtual Book Launch
How to plan a virtual book launch that fits your goals and resources, as well as can be adapted to meet changing circumstances.
Imagine Otherwise: Meredith D. Clark on Adapting Plans to Where You’re At
Cathy Hannabach interviews journalist Meredith D. Clark about new methods, tools, and strategies for planning during the pandemic.
Planning for Change and Uncertainty
Planning for change seems more important now than ever. Here’s how to create plans flexible enough to meet changing circumstances.
Imagine Otherwise: Chris Barcelos on Beginning from Educated Hope
Cathy Hannabach interviews public health scholar Chris Barcelos about socially engaged research, public health, and educated hope.
Writing Commitments Instead of Writing Goals/Plans
How writing commitments (instead of writing plans or goals) can help you write amidst uncertainty and change.
Beginning without a Road Map
Beginning can always be scary but it carries new weight this year. Here’s why beginning comes before planning and how to do so in 2021.
Ideas on Fire’s 2020 Year in Review: A Year of Change
Ideas on Fire’s 2020 Year in Review celebrates the amazing artists, activists, and academics who are building more just worlds.
Imagine Otherwise: Siobhan Brooks on Reckoning with Violence
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews sociologist Siobhan Brooks about reckoning with violent histories while building more just futures.
A Big Congrats to All Our Ideas on Fire Clients Who Published Books in 2020!
A gigantic congratulations to all the Ideas on Fire clients who published books this year! We truly loved working on these.
Reflection and Compassion to Close Out the Year
Reflection and compassion (especially self-compassion) can be hard to make time for this year but that’s why they’re so important.
Imagine Otherwise: Bakirathi Mani on Curating with Confidence
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and scholar Bakirathi Mani about postcolonial South Asian photography, curation, and confidence.
Imagine Otherwise: Jillian Hernandez on the Politics of Confidence and Creativity
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and professor Jillian Hernandez about the racialized, gendered, and classed politics of confidence and creativity.
Imagine Otherwise: Aimi Hamraie on Sustainability and Disability Justice
Cathy Hannabach interviews Aimi Hamraie about collective sustainability, disability justice, and building a world beyond scarcity.
Imagine Otherwise: Anusha Kedhar on the Limits of Flexibility
Cathy Hannabach interviews dancer and scholar Anusha Kedhar about flexible labor regimes and sustainability lessons from dance.











