The page provides a curated list of multimedia resources—podcasts, articles, videos, and documentaries—focused on contemporary rural life and rural issues. It highlights topics such as rural health care, legal deserts, architecture and design/build programs, LGBTQ+ rural experiences, and cultural production. The collection is meant to support learning, teaching, and community engagement around rurality.
Belonging Insecurity
Episode of the Funding Rural podcast featuring symposium keynote speaker Andy Mink, Director of Rural Iniaitatives at the Smithsonian Institute
Country Queers
Country Queers is a multimedia oral history project documenting the diverse experiences of rural, small town, and country LGBTQIA2S+ folks across intersecting layers of identity such as race, class, age, ability, gender identity, and religion.
Rural Studio: Love Stories
This 16-minute free documentary by Tim Hursley and Dave Anderson portrays the love of architecture, love of place, and love of people found in Hale County, Alabama.
Legal Deserts
This issue of The Practice explores "legal deserts." Access to legal representation in rural areas has become increasingly difficult. How are states, legal aid organizations, and the profession accounting for this real loss? (August/September, 2025)
"Rural Bashing"
Article on anti-rural sentiment in the U.S. by Kaceylee Klein and Lisa R. Pruitt of University of California, Davis (Law Review 57(3), 2023)
Loss of Obstetric Care in Rural and Urban Hospitals in the US
Access to obstetric care in US hospitals has been declining, while maternal mortality is on the rise. A new research letter published in JAMA quantifies losses and gains of obstetric care at rural and urban short-term acute care hospitals in the US between 2010-2022. Author Katy Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA, discusses this and more with JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS. JAMA Clinical Reviews Podcast (2024)
Artists Talk with Carlton Turner
Hour-long video interview with Carlton Turner, artist, agriculturalist, builder, researcher, and co-founder/co-director of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Oct. 2, 2025)
Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockabee & the Spirit of the Rural Studio
This hour-long documentary explores the Rural Studio, a design/build architecture program founded in 1993 by the late architect and MacArthur “genius” Samuel Mockbee in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. $6 rental fee.
Establishing a University-Based Collaborative for Research and Engagement with Rural Communities
In 2020, the University of Minnesota Rural Health Program established the Rural Collective, a forum for networking and collaboration on rural issues across the university system. This article by Carrie Henning-Smith, Katie Rydberg, and Katy Kozhimannil discusses the results of a survey of Rural Collective members in summer 2024 (Health Promotion Practice, 2025).