André Pérez on Transgender Oral History

11/02/16 • 24 min

How can trans people of color own their own stories? What's the right balance between depicting the systemic violence a community faces and representing the joy, pleasure, hope, and love that community produces?

In episode 23 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with guest André Pérez about his approach to multimedia projects, why he focuses on work that empowers marginalized communities, and how storytelling helps us imagine otherwise.

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/23-andre-perez

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/23-andre-perez

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Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film

How can we tell a story that is ours but also belongs to millions of others? How can documentary film and engaged scholarship portray the realities of war?

In episode 22 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker Wazhmah Osman about the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and Wazhmah's critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah's return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence.

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/22-wazhmah-osman

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Amanda Phillips on Critical Digital Humanities

How can digital media transform the way we organize, teach, and relate to our bodies and the world?

In episode 24 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with guest Amanda Phillips about the politics of video game realism in an era of increasingly visible police violence, why so many marginalized communities have turned to digital media for organizing, how hashtag syllabi have transformed what it means to teach about current events, and how teachers and students can together use the classroom as a space in which we teach each other how to imagine and create the kind of worlds we want.

Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/24-amanda-phillips