Archive of Individual Stories of State of the Human

BONUS: Story Craft Conversation with Kaitlyn Auth and Charlie Darracott on Keep Stanford Wrestling

Alina Wilson and Alex Strong sit down with Kaitlyn Auth and Charlie Darracott for a story craft conversation about the story behind creating Keep Stanford Wrestling.

BONUS: Story Craft Conversation with Aru Nair on Journey Through Generations

As an added bonus to our Reclaiming series, we’re including conversations with the creators who made them to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the craft of audio storytelling.
In this episode, Alex Strong talks with Aru Nair, the creator of Journey Through Generations, the second story in our Reclaiming series.

Story 3: Garden On The Rooftop

Our second story takes us to one of San Francisco's toughest neighborhoods, to look at tender shoots growing on the rooftops of the Tenderloin. By tender shoots we mean fifth graders, who are learning to grow and prepare their own food.

Story 2: Food for Thought

The history of survival cannibalism is complicated, often morally ambiguous, and deeply thought-provoking. Extreme survival situations can push the limits of someone’s self-preservation by pitting the preservation of others against it. What leads a starving human to consider cannibalism? Is the choice as black-and-white as we may think?

Story 1: First, Bread

What does it mean to preserve a living being? We follow the life of a sourdough starter, a live culture of bacteria and yeast, that was passed onto producer Parsa Nowruzi as a parting gift by a friend. After hitting a rocky road, Parsa inevitably faces the challenge of how to keep his starter buddy alive: what does it mean to preserve the life of someone else when you are struggling to take care of yourself?

Intro Story: Mukbang

Gathering, Story 3: Experiencing Sankofa

What are you supposed to do after a noose is found on your campus? Stanford’s answer to that question was, in part, to invite The Experience Sankofa Project, a living museum on black history to campus. This story details what the Project can teach us about racism, activism, and (maybe most importantly), community.

Gathering, Story 2: Enrique Chagoya - Making Art & Community

Art can be controversial, and Enrique Chagoya, an artist and professor at Stanford, is no stranger to controversy. But, in his experiences, art also has the power to bring people together--often, in unexpected ways.

Gathering, Story 1: My Ugly India

“What do I owe to this land? And why?” In this story, Tanvi Dutta Gupta explores how one citizen-led clean-up movement has confronted the ugliness of Indian cities, and what this means for her own belonging as an Indian.

Materializing, Story 4: Becoming British

As a kid, Esther wanted to change something fundamental about herself. Her solution? Put on a fake British accent. A story about what we can learn from a six-year-old pretend Londoner.
 
Featuring: Esther OmoleProducer: Adesuwa Agbonile
Music: Everybody wants Gold and a Mermaid, Tony Higgins