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: Amy Lam on Feminist Travel Writing
Cathy Hannabach interviews podcaster, travel writer, and journalist Amy Lam about ethical travel, feminist podcasting, and intersectional travel writing.
Imagine Otherwise: Malinda Maynor Lowery on Lumbee Storytelling
Cathy Hannabach interviews Lumbee filmmaker and historian Malinda Maynor Lowery about Indigenous food sovereignty, documentary making, and imagining otherwise.
100th Episode of Imagine Otherwise!
Host Cathy Hannabach reflects on 3 years of interviewing artists, activists, and academics about building better worlds through culture and creativity.
Imagine Otherwise: Kiki Petrosino on Writing from the Body
Cathy Hannabach interviews poet Kiki Petrosino about her new book Witch Wife, documentary poetic, and teaching students how to write from and with place.
Imagine Otherwise: Fobazi Ettarh on the Limits of Vocational Awe
Cathy Hannabach interviews librarian Fobazi Ettarh on radical librarianship, vocational awe, and how feminists of color are making libraries more just.
Imagine Otherwise: Melody Jue on Thinking through Seawater
Cathy Hannabach interviews ocean humanities scholar Melody Jue about scuba diving as a humanities research methodology, seaweeds, and climate justice.
Imagine Otherwise: Sarah Stefana Smith on a Poetics and Politics of Bafflement
Cathy Hannabach interviews artist and scholar Sarah Stefana Smith about transnational Black art, artistic collaboration, and imagining otherwise.
Imagine Otherwise: Anthony Romero on Sound and Socially Engaged Art
Cathy Hannabach interviews artist and educator Anthony Romero about the racial politics of sound, the Latinx Artists Retreat, and socially engaged art.
Imagine Otherwise: Emilly Prado on Making Space for Creativity
Cathy Hannabach interviews DJ, journalist, and creative Emilly Prado about the Black and Brown artivism scene in Portland.
Imagine Otherwise: Amber Jamilla Musser on Valuing Embodied Knowledge
Cathy Hannabach interviews feminist scholar Amber Jamilla Musser about the racial and gender politics of aesthetics and the importance of embodied knowledge.
Imagine Otherwise: Sandra Ruiz on Resetting the Colonial Clock
Cathy Hannabach interviews curator and scholar Sandra Ruiz about her new book Ricanness, Puerto Rican sovereignty, and imagining otherwise.
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.