Imagine Otherwise podcast
Subscribe to the showImagine Otherwise is a podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures.
Created and hosted by Cathy Hannabach and produced by Ideas on Fire, Imagine Otherwise features interviews with scholars, cultural producers, dancers, editors, artists, and activists who are building new worlds.
Cathy created the show in 2016 to both demonstrate the vibrant public voice that interdisciplinary scholars can have beyond the academy as well as to inspire new generations of thinkers.
Over the past 9 years, episodes have been taught in a wide array of university classrooms, been featured in international art exhibits, and taken Cathy to live tapings at venues as diverse as feminist circus art performances, scholarly conferences, and a culture lab on convergence.
The show’s programming partners have included the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Cultural Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and more.
Episodes
Imagine Otherwise: Erin Durban on the Sexual Politics of Empire
Cathy Hannabach interviews anthropologist Erin Durban about postcolonial politics in Haiti as they shape queer and trans Haitian lives.
Imagine Otherwise: Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Anticolonial Solidarity Tourism
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jennifer Lynn Kelly about transnational ethnographic research and the writing process.
Imagine Otherwise: Josef Nguyen on the Politics of Flexibility
Cathy Hannabach interviews digital media scholar Josef Nguyen about the politics of flexibility in education and the creative economy.
Imagine Otherwise: Anima Adjepong on Interdisciplinary Intuition
Cathy Hannabach interviews Anima Adjepong about intuition in the research process, embracing intellectual promiscuity, and being together in difference.
Imagine Otherwise: Nitasha Tamar Sharma on Recalibration and Balance
Cathy Hannabach interviews Nitasha Tamar Sharma about what balance means during a pandemic and forging solidarities for more just futures.
Imagine Otherwise: Catherine Knight Steele on Black Feminist Extensions of Grace
Cathy Hannabach interviews Catherine Knight Steele about Black feminist collaboration in digital studies and scholarly life more broadly.
Imagine Otherwise: Christopher Ali on Building a More Connected World
Cathy Hannabach interviews Christopher Ali about his new book Farm Fresh Broadband and his 3,600-mile rural broadband road trip with his hound dog Tuna.
Imagine Otherwise: Sandra Ristovska on Seeing Human Rights
Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and media studies scholar Sandra Ristovska about the changing relationship between imagery and human rights.
Imagine Otherwise: Jessica Bissett Perea on Indigenous Transformations in Academic Publishing
Cathy Hannabach interviews Dena’ina musician-scholar Jessica Bissett Perea about building a more justice-focused academic publishing pipeline by centering Indigenous worldviews.
Imagine Otherwise: Priya Kandaswamy on Embracing Permanent Change
Cathy Hannabach interviews Priya Kandaswamy embracing permanent change and building more just social bonds in our classrooms, communities, and creative endeavors.
Imagine Otherwise: Mark Villegas on Collaborative Abundance in Hip-Hop Cultures
Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and hip-hop scholar Mark Villegas about applying collective abundance to academia and life.
Imagine Otherwise: Maile Arvin on Kuleana and Indigenous Feminist Community
Cathy Hannabach interviews Kānaka Maoli feminist scholar Maile Arvin about community building and Indigenous feminist pedagogy.
Imagine Otherwise: Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla on Cite Black Women
Cathy Hannabach interviews Christen A. Smith, Dána-Ain Davis, and Sameena Mulla about the racially gendered politics of citation.
Imagine Otherwise: Liat Ben-Moshe on Community beyond the Carceral State
Cathy Hannabach interviews Liat Ben-Moshe about disability justice, prison abolition, and building a world beyond cages.
Imagine Otherwise: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on Cultivating Joy through Queer Black Feminist Art
Cathy Hannabach interviews Mecca Jamilah Sullivan about the role of art, writing, and cultural production in social justice movements.