Strong Women: Recent Episodes
Heidi Holtan
A KAXE/KBXE podcast edition of our on-air and off-air conversations about the lived experience of women in Minnesota, especially women in northern Minnesota. Hosted by Heidi Holtan - with consultation and focus groups by Laura Connelly.
Delina White is the owner and designer of I Am Anishinaabe fashion house based in Onigum, MN
Erika is a member of the Red Lake Nation who felt called to run this election cycle as DFL in MN House district 2b in Beltrami, Cass, Mahnomen and Clearwater County
"The right of privacy under our Constitution protects not simply the right to an abortion but rather it protects the woman's decision to abort; any legislation infringing on the decision-making process, then, violates this fundamental right" according to Doe v. Gomez in 1995 and U of MN Law Professor Jill Hasday
We gathered women to talk about the connection to the land and climate. We learned that women bring community, adaptability, and a globally-informed, locally-enacted mindset to the climate crisis.
We gathered women to talk about the connection to the land and climate. We learned that women innately understand that CLIMATE is personal.
"Inventive, effervescent... Egan plaits multiple narratives and technique to underscore the manifold ways our own desires betray us in a brave new coded world." Oprah Daily
Bemidji High School grad discusses her work at the United Nations, her journey, and hope for the future.
forging relationships between women leaders across generations and rural lands of Minnesota
The culmination of five regional listening sessions that brought together the expertise of local government leaders and 2020 data. AuditorBlaha, OSA data analysts, and local leaders looked at 20-year local government financial trends to provide context to the 2020 financial data, which represented the first year that local governments received federal pandemic relief funds through the CARES Act.
U.S. Senators Tina Smith & John Thune’s Bill to Provide Financial Stability for Federally Impacted School Districts During COVID-19 Signed Into Law Senators’ Bill will Assist School Districts as They Apply for Impact Aid Program Funding
illuminating the best of Indian Country in storytelling by promoting understanding between Native and non-Native cultures
The riveting story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts―and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
this Strong Women conversation is made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the Citizens of Minnesota.
Today we welcomed back to Tamara Lowney - Executive Director of IEDC - Itasca Economic Development Corporation. She told us about the big news of new industry in Itasca County.
So the story moves around between the different perspectives of these women, and it doesn't follow a straight chronological timeline. It's more arranged thematically. So but to go furthest back in time would be Marie Blackbird, who who was 14 years old at eighteen sixty two. And she and her mother are the ones who actually sow the seeds into the hands of their skirts. So they bring that story alive. So they represent that traditional relationship with seeds and the land and gardening. - Diane Wilson
Today we talked with Lisa Joy Hesse. As the COVID-19 pandemic began and wore on there was a lot of uncertainty, and a lot of emotional toll. Now, with 55% of Minnesotans getting vaccinated, numbers are down and mask mandates have gone away and life is getting back to normal. But it might not feel normal. Lisa Joy Hesse is a mixed media and fiber artist, a dynamic presenter and certified infection preventionist. She lives in the woods of northern Minnesota and she has come out with a workbook called “Getting Past the Pandemic – Exercises for healing the emotional trauma of COVID-19."
Annette Gordon-Reed is an American law professor and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. She is currently the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University, where she is also the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor of history in the university’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
Georgia Fort is a two-time Emmy nominated journalist. Her reporting has been published on CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS affiliates. Her mission as a storyteller is to change the narrative by amplifying truth, citing diverse sources, and contextualizing social justice issues. You hear the reporting of independent journalist Georgia Fort on Racial Reckoning - The Arc of Justice heard weekday mornings on KAXE/KBXE. News Director Heidi Holtan talked with Georgia this week about a posting she saw on social media where Georgia spoke directly to HOW media responds to mistakes.
Mary Casanova's latest book of fiction published by the University of Minnesota Press is her third on Rainy Lake. Set in the year 1922 this time we meet Trinity Baird - a 21 year old artist from a wealthy family who spend their summers on their island. Trinity is strong but broken. She's been put away in an asylum in St. Peter for being "hysterical". The book resonates with issues we are grappling with today: stigmas about mental illness, women's equality, racism, anti-semitism....
I can't step into every bedroom in America and say, ‘oh, wait a minute, let's put on a condom!’…What I could do, though… write a book that uses storytelling and humor to turn people's interest towards the subject as opposed to the narrative we have now, which is that these are terrible and scary things that I should want to run away from… I'm hoping to shift the feeling away from ‘I did something wrong’ to ‘this is just something that happens and I have the power to take care of it.’ – Dr. Ina Park
Senator Tina Smith joins Heidi Holtan and John Bauer on the Thursday Morning Show for Making Sausage. Senator Smith talks about her new bill the 21st Century Workforce Partnerships Act. It was put together to give grants to local school districts and community & technical colleges to build a partnership with businesses to help create and expand a better career pathway for students.
Of Women and Salt takes us from present day to Miami to a family detention center in Texas, to Mexico and then back to a 19th century cigar factory in Cuba. It's a haunting meditation on the choices that mothers make, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots. (~From the Publisher)