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: 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.
Imagine Otherwise: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón on Women Graffiti Artists
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón about feminist graffiti artists, social justice curation, and Puerto Rican activism.
Imagine Otherwise: Alyshia Gálvez on NAFTA and Transnational Food Justice
Cathy Hannabach interviews Alyshia Gálvez about NAFTA’s devastating impact on food systems and why all scholars should be public scholars.
Imagine Otherwise: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui on Hawaiian Sovereignty
Cathy Hannabach interviews J. Kēhaulani Kauanui about the histories and futures of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, indie media, and consent politics.
Imagine Otherwise: Jenny L. Davis on Indigenous Language Revitalization
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jenny L. Davis about Chickasaw language revitalization, Indigenous linguistic anthropology, and Two Spirit activism.
Imagine Otherwise: Jian Neo Chen on Trans of Color Art and Activism
Cathy Hannabach interviews Jian Neo Chen about trans studies publishing, artistic/activist/academic collaboration, & emergent strategies for social justice.
Imagine Otherwise: Aimee Bahng on Speculating from the Undercommons
Cathy Hannabach interviews Aimee Bahng about speculative fiction’s radical potential, the racism of statistics, and alternative imaginaries of the Pacific.
Imagine Otherwise: Craig Santos Perez on a Decolonial and Demilitarized Pacific
Cathy Hannabach interviews Craig Santos Perez about poetry as a social justice practice, communal storytelling, and a decolonial and demilitarized Pacific.
Imagine Otherwise: Macarena Gómez-Barris on Fighting Extractive Capitalism
Cathy Hannabach interviews Macarena Gómez-Barris about using art to fight extractive capitalism, translation politics, and working in and with community.
Imagine Otherwise: Veronica Corzo-Duchardt on Art Between Worlds
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Veronica Cozo-Duchardt about queer Cuban-American art, running a feminist design studio, and her work with Bitch Media.
Imagine Otherwise: Imani Perry on Love as an Ethic
Episode 73 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast is live! I talk with feminist scholar Imani Perry about the intimate ways gender, colonialism, and race intertwine in the histories of patriarchy; how Imani draws on the inspiration of both Lorraine Hansberry and...