Episode 021: Ronak Kapadia, author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Race, Security, and the Sensorial Life of Empire
Guest: Ronak Kapadia Ronak K. Kapadia is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliated faculty in Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ronak is a cultural theorist of race, sex, and empire in the late 20th and early 21st...
Episode 020: April Lynn James, writer, performer, and designer of Whimsical Things
Guest: April Lynn James April Lynn James is a writer, performer and designer of whimsical things. Her research interests include 18th-century music, baroque dance, and operas composed by women. Madison Hatta is her alter ego who writes and declaims whimsical sonnets...
Episode 019: Karma Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics
Guest: Karma Chávez Karma R. Chávez is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas – Austin. She is co-editor of Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method (with Sara McKinnon, Robert Asen and...
Episode 018: Minal Hajratwala, poet, author, and unicorn of many colors
Minal Hajratwala is a unicorn of many colors, and a poet at heart. Her latest book of poetry, Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment, includes poems and the script for her theatrical poetry extravaganza, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium,” which was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for World AIDS Day. It is published by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, which publishes contemporary poetry books from India under a collective mentorship model. Hajratwala is also a writing coach and teacher helping other authors find their voice, particular queer writers and writers of color.
