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Inshallah & The Creek Don't Rise

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by Lyn Rye

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Exercises in American truth-telling. After all, truth comes before reconciliation. What could truth & reconciliation look like in America? There's a lot of stories that need to be told, stories that often come from "the wrong side of the tracks." Turns out a lot of communities are in crisis. Turns out a lot of our struggles are connected. Turns out, we need each other. A lot. Inshallah & the creek don't rise, we can actually do something about that. Audio & written versions available on Substack. Audio available on all podcast streaming platforms. Video versions are also available at https://www.youtube.com/@lyn_rye_music. <a href="https://lynrye.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lynrye.substack.com</a>

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June 3, 2026

Rural Indiana Report-Back

I spent the first 22 years of my life in Indiana. I’ve maintained connections there even since moving to Chicago. For the past three years I’ve attended an annual conference organized by the IU Center for Rural Engagement. The conference brings together people from all disciplines and fields (literally) who are fighting for the well-being of rural and small town Indiana. At this yearly convergence, I’ve met nurses who formed underground networks in counties that lost *all* of their maternal healthcare post-Roe. I’ve met queer organizers from Spencer, Indiana, the smallest town in the U.S. with an LGBTQ+ community center and Pride festival. I’ve met university students collecting oral histories of Black rural elders. I’ve met community members who are sustaining their county’s only women’s recovery house by hunting wild game, growing vegetables, and baking bread. In other words, I’ve met people who are the definition of rural resilience. They rarely get any spotlight. But I think we could all learn something from them.Every conference I’ve attended since 2024 has been deeply impactful. But this year had bite. So much funding has been lost. The state of Indiana has gleefully slashed budgets in tandem with the federal government. An already-patchy safety net has had giant holes punched through it as life continues to get more unaffordable. Can you guess what Indiana’s minimum wage is? It’s $7.25. Yep. You read that correctly. Around 41% of jobs in Indiana don’t pay living wages. What happens when almost half of the employment in the state does not cover basic necessities? Take another guess - how many new data centers have been proposed in Indiana recently?36.Thirty. Six.Is it all connected? You tell me.The bleak news is nothing new. Rural and small town America have faced challenges for decades. Hundreds of rural hospitals nationwide have closed and roughly 30% more are at risk of closing soon. Over half of all recorded drug overdoses in the U.S.A. have occurred just within the past 5 years, with fentanyl-laced meth being one of the main culprits, hitting rural America especially hard. Rural America often has higher rates of homicide, incarceration, suicide, overdose, and poverty than urban America, despite our society’s obsession with demonizing urban life. Academics and activists speak of this as the rural “sacrifice zone.” Again, nothing new.What is new is that more and more of the country is waking up to the fact that rural America is a frontline. It has been for decades, but our society too often does not pay attention. Our collective neglect has built cover for power to move in the shadows. The zeitgeist may not pay attention to rural America, but Meta and Google sure do. Oil and coal industries sure do. Rare earth mining companies sure do. Cartels sure do. The lifestyle of urban America is maintained in part by the natural resources and labor of rural America. Not only that, people in power rely on having a place where things can be made invisible. Reservations for Indigenous people? The infrastructure of mass incarceration? Pipelines? Nuclear plants? The Silk Road of drug cartels? The scariest environmental degradations? The human trafficking of agricultural labor forces? The roll-back of child labor laws? Cancer rates that should be a “canary in the coal mine” for us all? A nation with lots of skeletons needs a closet. Rural America is too often a place where collective sins get disappeared.Thanks to the amount of media attention towards data centers, more and more people are paying attention to rural areas. However, the media doesn’t always tell the stories of the kind of people you can meet at this yearly conference in rural Indiana. It doesn’t always reflect the decades of experience in rural survival that people are bringing to these most recent fights. I’m no media outlet, but if I can offer any platform whatsoever to highlight how people are fighting back on the frontlines of Indiana, I’ll do it.If we turn away, we do so to our own detriment.Ok, let’s get into it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lynrye.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lynrye.substack.com</a>

February 23, 2026

Projecting 2026

Reflections on what it means to fight a world-building project, and why our stories matter during the fight. At the beginning of last year I released an essay called Projecting 2025. Today I am revisiting that essay and sharing new observations as we move deeper into 2026. We discuss White Christian Nationalism as a world-building project. We discuss the "iceberg" model of conflict and what it means to take responsibility for our own stories floating beneath the water as we fight the good fight. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lynrye.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lynrye.substack.com</a>

December 18, 2025

"Truth Comes Before Reconciliation: An Exercise in American Truth-Telling"

On November 7th, the Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice published an article that I wrote about the history of Nemaha County, Nebraska, where my mother’s family has been farming for six generations. The article explores what local and family history reveal about America and how the future of family farmland in Nemaha County points towards bigger questions about the future of rural America. The article offers its research and storytelling as a model for truth-telling in America on our long, ongoing road to reconciling injustice. The article was the result of 1.5 years of research. I wrote the first draft in the days between Juneteenth and July 4th, 2024, inspired by a quote I read in a book by civil rights leader Reverend William J. Barber II about how this period of days between Juneteenth and July 4th should be time when Americans dedicate themselves to the pursuit of true freedom for all. At first, I just shared the research with my family. But then a family member tipped me off that a journal at the University of Nebraska College of Law was accepting submissions of non-traditional scholarship. I sent a draft to the Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice the day my maternal grandfather died, November 16th, 2024. We layed him to rest in Nemaha County shortly thereafter. The piece is dedicated to him. I had no idea I was going to submit this research to a law journal when I wrote it and did not format it with legal scholarship in mind. In a profound vote of confidence about the eventual value of the piece, which I’m sincerely grateful for and humbled by, the editorial team at NJAJ worked with me for the entire year to make the research ready for a law journal. Law journals require a citation for (basically) every single sentence and the citation must specify a page number and sometimes even a specific paragraph. The work had well over 100 sources. As you can imagine, going back over the research to make it law-journal-ready was an arduous task. However, I am glad that the work was pored over by a team of lawyers for the last year. In an age of misinformation, it feels significant that this work was picked through with such a fine-toothed comb. This is not a claim that the article therefore contains watertight, objective, and absolute truth. On the contrary, it is a comment the our methodology of assembling stories. We examined every single thread of information using the journal’s standards for evidentiary burden, asking, “does this story really exist in this source the way we’re telling it?” We changed the document many times to reflect new and deeper understandings. We collected photos of physical documents that only exist in local libraries or family archives. We laid out the map: “This story is documented here. This story is documented here.” You could retrace every single one of our steps if you wanted to. The result is what I’ve been calling my “recreational dissertation.” It is a repository for a tremendous amount asking, seeking, thinking, reading, talking, digging, feeling, and writing. I am going to make other media with this material - media that is more conversational, accessible, and bite-sized. But as the research exists in it’s full form, it’s basically a short book. An audio book you can finish on a few commutes. A slim volume about hyperlocal history you’d find at an independent bookstore.Frankly, I think the research itself is a good read. Yes, it’s dense, but at its core, it is just a lot of stories. A local legend who was fabled to rescue people on the Underground Railroad from drowning in the Missouri River? Secret hobo hieroglyphics? Meth moguls? A cameo appearance by Willie Nelson? This history isn’t exactly dry. It is also important. One of the quotes that I include in the article is from a 1965 speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King said: “I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house. We are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised.” In the article I refer to this speech to make the following point: if dominant/white society is a burning house, rural and small town America is where you can smell the smoke. I recently saw a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEtEvnhziPM&t=2527s">video by a scholar named Dasia Sade</a> in which she references this exact same speech from Dr. King. In her video she states: “The house is on fire, so my culture is water. Water and escape. Resistance or escape. That’s it. The people who understand the importance of our culture being water right now are who I am looking for. That’s where I’m at.” Same. Big same. That’s ultimately the goal of all of this work - building a culture of water in the midst of a burning house. If that goal speaks to you, I hope you consider spending some time with this article.To read the full text, go to this link: <a target="_blank" href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/njaj/vol2/iss1/4/">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/njaj/vol2/iss1/4/</a> Otherwise, sit back and listen to the full audio version attached to this Substack post and available on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts. With gratitude,-L.R. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://lynrye.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">lynrye.substack.com</a>

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What is Inshallah & The Creek Don't Rise?: Exercises in American truth-telling. After all, truth comes before reconciliation.

What could truth & reconciliation look like in America? There's a lot of stories that need to be told, stories that often come from "the wrong side of the tracks." Turns out a lot of communities are in crisis. Turns out a lot of our struggles are connected. Turns out, we need each other. A lot. Inshallah & the creek don't rise, we can actually do something about that.

Audio & written versions available on Substack. Audio available on all podcast streaming platforms. Video versions are also available at https://www.youtube.com/@lyn_rye_music. <a href="https://lynrye.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">lynrye.substack.com</a>
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 6 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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