Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire

Editor and food writer Sarah Grey talks about using food to create community, editing for social justice, socialist feminist approaches to child care, the tastiness and challenges of food writing, and her weekly radical dinner party Friday Night Meatballs.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/12-sarah-grey

What happens when we reimagine the uses of science and technology in the name of marginalized groups? Can social justice goals be at once theoretical and practical? How does collaboration vary by culture?

In episode 11 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews digital artist and scholar micha cárdenas about using digital media and technology in the service of social justice, how art can enable survival, and how queer and trans communities of color are imagining and creating more just worlds.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/11-micha-cardenas

Nikiko Masumoto shares how women of color feminism informs how she runs the Masumoto Family Farm, the rich history of Japanese American farmers in California's Central Valley, writing and directing her play about WWII Internment, and how rural artists like her are forging new directions in creative entrepreneurship.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/10-nikiko-masumoto

How is the history of slavery tied to modern-day surveillance systems? Is surveillance always a negative term? How can a gendered lens change the way we perceive privacy rights and policies?

In episode 9 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with feminist scholar Simone Browne about how Black communities have resisted and interfered with the surveillance practices that target them, the multiple lenses through which to consider privacy, and the joys of collaborating with academics, artists, and activists.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/9-simone-browne

How can media producers address the varied ways people with diverse disabilities use media and technology?

In episode 8 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews disability media scholar Elizabeth Ellcessor on why media accessibility is a social justice issue, how disability activists have harnessed technology in unexpected ways, and how producers can create media for the widest range of audiences.

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/8-elizabeth-ellcessor

What role does race play in imaginative literary genres like science fiction and fantasy? Can we broaden the confines of what we consider political and academic? How do Black creatives and intellectuals engage in the work of imagining otherwise?

In episode 7 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews African American studies scholar andré carrington about how bringing Black representation to academia is a form of activism, why we should complicate our current understanding of popular culture and race, and what sustains him in doing his social justice work.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/7-andre-carrington

What can we learn about structural oppression through the analysis of one person's story? How can collaboration transform the way we make decisions about our work? How can empowering others to imagine otherwise liberate us all?

In episode 6 of the Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews activist-scholar Eric Tang about why the US state resettled Cambodian refugees in historically Black neighborhoods in the 1980s and 1990s, how urban spaces are shaped by slavery's aftermath, and why scholars should join the vital movement for welfare rights.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/6-eric-tang

Trapeze artist, archivist, and poet Lauren Rile Smith shares her experience directing the feminist and queer circus arts troupe Tangle Movement Arts, how disability and chronic pain shape her relationship to her dancing body, and the politics of a life onstage.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/5-lauren-rile-smith

Poet and gender studies scholar Margaret Rhee talks about the magic that can happen when one brings art, activism, and academia together; her new poetry book Radio Heart: or, How Robots Fall Out of Love; and what teaching new media classes in prisons taught her about intersectionality.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/4-margaret-rhee

What are the benefits of indie television production for women, queers, and trans people of color? How is the slow speed of collaborative work actually an advantage?

In episode 3 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews television producer and professor Aymar Jean Christian about his television platform Open TV; independent web series by queers, women, and trans people people of color; how his scholarship has informed his television production; and what it means to imagine otherwise.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/3-aymar-jean-christian