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BloomingOUT tackles (heh) the controversial and harmful bill, HB1041, in the Indiana Statehouse. It has since passed the Housse and moves on to the Senate to be reviewed and hopefully die. Melanie Davis and Justin Robertson are hosting. Guests are Kit Malone – Legislative Strategist for the ACLU in Indiana, Jeanne Smith – Owner of Bikesmiths &founder and president of …

Host: Melanie Davis Produced by: Melanie Davis & Kade Young It’s been a while, loves! Good to be posting here, again. Justin and Ireland are working and taking care of their partner, respectively. I have an update on this year’s TDoR: Transgender Day of Remembrance that is happening at the Back Door on Saturday, November 20th, at 7 -9 pm. …

This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the scientific methodology of the Positivists and Claude Bernard; a reading of a medical journal article on the “insanity” of antivivisectionists; the tragedy of Charles Darwin’s “support” for vivisection. Radio Version of Captivating Fictions RELATED Personhood (New Directions website) …

This week, we share the second part of a conversation between Garrett Felber and Micol Seigel. Felber has been on the show before, discussing the Nation of Islam and its relationship to the origins of the modern prisoners’ movement. His new book, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State, is …

Welcome to our 41st episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.  Today’s episode is about the topic childhood cultural traditions, and is a conversation between Karen Cheng & Intel Pintakaew. Karen and Intel have a candid conversation about …

Welcome to our 40th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.  In this episode we talk with Yasmin Elgoharry about navigating careers during the Coronavirus pandemic, and seek her advice on how to network and build up your …

Welcome to our Mental Health episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Kulsoom Tapal and Sophie Wang! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode our moderated Kulsoom Tapal talks with Sophie Wang about the struggles of dealing with our mental health …

Welcome to our 37th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Hibah Butt, Elise Lee, and Kulsoom Tapal! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. In this episode we talk with Indiana University Bloomington alumni Kevin Phan and James Paulson. We discuss the Model …

Today’s episode looks at social reproduction on the margins of the state – where there is a vitalizing drive to create life beyond, against, and outside of imposing limitations, and a persistence of radical sociality — a fundamental challenge to the normalized organization of life around degradation and exploitation. This vitalizing drive is what our guest today, Laura Harris, calls …

The deeply racist Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote in his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun, that the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past. In that same book Faulkner has the “nun,” which carries the meaning of prostitute in Shakespeare’s time, a Black drug addict named Nancy, offer that salvation comes from suffering. And though this is …