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  • Sustaining Engagement and Collaborative Partnerships in Shifting Times

    By Imagining America

    September 29, 2021

    By Marisol Fila

    I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When I was in elementary school, our fourth-grade teacher asked us to narrate our family histories…

  • I Am Who I Say I Am: Reclaiming Native American Identity through Visual Sovereignty

    By Imagining America

    September 28, 2021

    By Haley Rains

    The Maori filmmaker Merata Mita once said, “I’ve always felt strongly that our land gets taken, the fisheries and forests get taken, and in the same category is our stories…

  • Listening for multiple trajectories

    By Imagining America

    September 27, 2021

    By Cathleen Calderón

    Engaging in public scholarship means being an imaginative teammate and student. The scholar accesses, develops, and shares their knowledge while working with others to offer mutual support, resources, and processes of learning…

  • Imagining Space for My Own Belonging

    By Imagining America

    September 27, 2021

    By Amy Hirayama

    As a mixed-race Hapa kid, my Japaneseness often felt like an accessory instead of a fundamental part of my identity. In undergrad I tentatively claimed the identity of person of color, I railed against whiteness and I was a stew of insecurity…

  • Community-based Learning: Yoga and Energy Justice

    By Imagining America

    October 2, 2020

    By Dominic J. Bednar

    To me yoga means to love and honor my unique needs. To explore beyond my reach. To discover my vulnerabilities within.

  • Abolishing the Academy

    By Imagining America

    September 25, 2020

    By Caroline Cheung

    As an activist-scholar, I have dedicated my research, pedagogy and praxes to dismantling the prison-industrial complex (PIC) and the discourses that normalize, sustain and even celebrate it.

  • Seeding Stories

    By Imagining America

    September 24, 2020

    By Julie Feng

    Rhetorics, which is the art and study of discourse, are seeds for social justice. These seeds are words, phrases, and narratives; they are language and text; they are image and art and iconography…

  • Intersecting Black Histories, Art Practice, and Information History

    By Imagining America

    September 24, 2020

    By Courtney Richardson

    My scholarship involves imagining new ways of representing Black American experiences with the intent to encourage reviews (and new views) of known and less known stories from my cultural heritage.