Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire
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We’re reaching that time of year when the days shorten and we start to wonder if we’ll get everything done we wanted to this year. In this season, many of us yearn for more balance in our daily routines and the second year of an ongoing global pandemic has made that feeling even more intense.
What does balance even mean in this context and how can we cultivate it in ways that feed our collective desires for justice?
In episode 143 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Nitasha Tamar Sharma, whose scholarly, pedagogical, and creative work demonstrates the worldmaking possibilities that live at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, and sexual justice.
In their conversation, Nitasha and Cathy chat about what balance means during a pandemic as well as across the course of interdisciplinary careers.
Nitasha shares how she has learned to recalibrate her work and life to better align with the impact she wants to have on the world, including privileging holistic mentoring and collective care in how she approaches publishing and book promotion.
Finally, they close out the episode with Nitasha’s vision for forging solidarities that can extend beyond the present and into more just futures.
Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/143-nitasha-tamar-sharma
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