1500 Stories

1500 Stories take a break from the gloom and doom of class and economic inequality in the U.S. to share the stories of people who are twins, in this sweet and entertaining bonus episode written and e…

This episode is the first of a two-parter about the housing crisis in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.  It explores stories of how expensive it is to live here, how overcrowded housing …

Agrarian realities today look a lot more like industrial realities, thanks to the rise and dominance of commercial agriculture. And like all industrial realities, farmwork is shaped by the indignitie…

Those first two episodes in this mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more nuance the challenging realities o…

This episode looks behind Americans imaginings and stereotypes about rural life--what scholars call the agrarian myth--to see the realities underneath.  The realities of rural life turn out to be a l…

In the first of a four episode mini-series exploring the myths and realities of farm work in the U.S., we go beneath the surface of what social scientists refer to as the agrarian myth to share the m…

In this third and final episode of a mini-series about middle-classness in the U.S., we explore the curious contradiction that while many Americans prefer to identify as middle class, many also quest…

In the second episode of a three part mini-series exploring the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label, we hear from ordinary Americans about what middle-classness means to them.  Middle-classness i…

Not Rich Not Poor is the first of a three episode mini-series exploring the appeal of “middle-classness” as a label.  No matter how much money Americans have, many still insist on the label of middle…

The 1500 Stories podcast cracks open the uncomfortable subjects of money and economic class.  1500 Stories is an art and digital storytelling project about economic inequality in the United States an…