Inner States
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For years now, Nathan Dillon has been driving around southern Indiana, singing to old folks. He’s not old, himself, but he knows how he wants to spend the rest of his time.
Inner States uses conversations with unconventional artists, thinkers, and doers from Southern Indiana and beyond as jumping-off points to explore big ideas about place, politics, work, ecology, and memory, among others. We dig into the art, culture, stories, and sounds of the southern Midwest, from the rolling hills to reddit, from comedians to country dances, getting to know the people, the ideas, and the landscapes that make us who we are. We ask big questions, get caught up in stories, and slow down for sounds.
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Some of us worry enough about our devotion to our screens. Should we be getting other species hooked on them too? -
A conversation about what contemporary art can help us understand about policing, oppressive power, and resistance. -
Stephanie Solomon thinks about gender a lot – in her work life and her personal life. We talk about how much harder it is to change old patterns than we once thought. -
Christmas has so many traditions. One of those, it turns out, is worrying about how commercial it’s gotten. That goes back at least as far as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. We continue it with five attempts to do things differently. -
When a presidential campaign leans into the idea that certain people – say, Haitians – don’t belong in the Midwest, it begs the question of who gets to claim the Heartland as their own. The global roots of the Heartland, on the latest Inner States. -
As the final chapter of our missing cat saga opens, it’s getting to be winter, and Kayte still hasn’t found Rita. The odds of Rita surviving are getting slim. -
Kayte’s cat Rita had been missing for months when Kayte started to hear about sightings in a nearby neighborhood. She went over there with a pillowcase. It didn’t go well. The election results that November didn’t help. -
When Kayte’s cat Rita escaped at the Kroger, it wasn’t the first time she’d left. In Chapter 2 of The Third Time Rita Left, we hear how she came to Kayte’s house, and left, and then snuck back in, almost in disguise. -
It's the day after a momentous election. We want to hear from you. -
For months after Rita escaped, Kayte didn’t lose hope. There were other problems in the world, but things were looking up. The U.S. was about to elect its first female president. But as she kept looking for Rita, all of that would change.
