Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and scholar Sandra Ruiz about her new book Ricanness, Puerto Rican sovereignty, and imagining otherwise.
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Imagine Otherwise: Tania Lizarazo on Listening and Learning in Public
Cathy Hannabach interviews Tania Lizarazo about community-engaged scholarship, digital storytelling, and listening and learning together in public.
Imagine Otherwise: Alix Olson on Transitioning from Performer to Professor
Cathy Hannabach interviews Alix Olson about transitioning into academia from slam poetry, creative pedagogy, and queering kinship and family.
Imagine Otherwise: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas on Leaving No One Behind
Cathy Hannabach interviews Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about young adult and children’s lit, race in speculative fiction, and social justice pedagogy.
Imagine Otherwise: Denne Michele Norris on QTPOC Literary Worlds
Cathy Hannabach interviews Denne Michele Norris about making publishing more accessible to marginalized writers, the politics of art, and writing novels.
Imagine Otherwise: Jenn M. Jackson on Black Feminist Love and Community Building
Cathy Hannabach interviews Teen Vogue columnist Jenn M. Jackson about Black millennial podcasting, the limits of savior narratives, and justice as love in public.
Imagine Otherwise: Larisa Kingston Mann on DJ Dreams and Radical Publics
Cathy Hannabach interviews Larisa Kingston Mann about the colonial histories of copyright law, bringin DJ skills into the classroom, and radical publics.
Imagine Otherwise: Nadine Hubbs on Listening Queerly
Cathy Hannabach interviews Nadine Hubbs about Latinx country music fandom, the community-building power of music, and queer musicology.
Imagine Otherwise: Marisol LeBrón on an Anti-Colonial Abolitionist Praxis
Cathy Hannabach interviews Marisol LeBrón about policing & punitive governance in Puerto Rico, Hurricane Mari’s impact on scholarship, and prison abolition.
Imagine Otherwise: Jade S. Sasser on Reproductive Justice and Climate Change
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jade S. Sasser about climate change activism, reproductive justice feminism, and interdisciplinary scholarship.