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Our guest today, Thalia Field, is an acclaimed experimental novelist, essayist and poet, modes of writing she often combines in one text. It’s also likely that historical figures, philosophers, or dog trainers, will walk onto the page to be the connective tissue between multiple distinct texts that span decades. In what follows, we’ll hear Field talk about one piece of …

Welcome to our 42st 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 an interview with Shruti Rana and Seri Lee, members of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. Shruti Rana joined the Hamilton Lugar School …

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 Environmental Justice episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Meloddy Gao and Cindy Nguyen! 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 Cindy Nguyen about environmental justice and her experiences with environmental education. Her background is …

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 we speak with anarchist author Kristian Williams about his interest in George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, seemingly quite disparate thinkers to attract one’s admiration. But it turns out that Williams isn’t the first anarchist to be interested in them. It also turns out that Orwell himself admired Wilde, writing in a letter to a friend that he’d always been …

Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Erin Predmore, President and CEO of The Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce and a trans-racial adoptive  parent. They explore the topic of trans-racial adoption and the concern that when minority children are placed in white families they may lose a strong sense of racial identity. Erin Predmore expounds on her experience as …

Welcome to the Citizenship, Patriotism and Identity 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. On today’s episode, we have an interview with Krishna Pathak, IU alum and IU Class of 2019 Commencement Speaker. In this episode, Pathak speaks …