For Women’s History Month Angela Williams talks about her recent reference book Women in the Workplace in America 1900-2021. Aubrey Jaap, Assistant Director of the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, discusses the Women’s Protective Union. For a sample of what the Archives have to offer, listen to:

• Val Webster talking about joining the union.
• Virginia Salazar remembering raising 15 children in Butte.
• Sheila Penaluna describing being underground in the mines.

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Dr. Nurse Nancy discusses some concerns she has encountered as she has gone about her nursing duties caring for hospice patients and residents of Assisted Living Facilities. Judith Schwarz (RN, MSN, Ph.D.), Clinical Director for End of Life Choices New York, provides information on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) as a way mentally competent adults can hasten their own death. For more information listeners can link to her presentation, “Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED): An Overview,“ or refer to the book Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. In addition, listeners can link to, print and complete an Advance Directive for Receiving Oral Food and Fluids in Dementia. This episode also features a presentation by Alicia Garza entitled “Caregivers Are the Backbone of Our Society” delivered for EndWell.

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Dr. Nurse Nancy and another Gallatin Valley resident just visited Hawai’i and came back with eye-opening information – they had traveled to another country! For the history-minded tourist escaping Montana’s freezing temperatures by heading to the islands, this interview with Dr. Keanu Sai might deepen your appreciation of your destination.

Born and partly raised in Hawai’i, Dr. Nurse Nancy is excited to learn about – and share – an evolving perspective on the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government and the ongoing illegal occupation of the Kingdom of Hawai’i by the United States. Would-be tourists who inform themselves of this information may find their own trip more meaningful, and they will definitely be showing some real “aloha” spirit toward the Kingdom of Hawai’i.

For more information, click on the following links:

Smithsonian Institute’s mini documentaries

     Birth of a Literate Nation
     Hawaiian Diplomacy
     How to Overthrow a Government

National Education Association’s articles on the Hawaiian Kingdom

     The Illegal Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government
     The U.S. Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
     The Impact of the U.S. Occupation on the Hawaiian People

Hawaiian Kingdom Government website

Hawaiian Kingdom Government blog

Documentary on the Council of Regency

Documentary Speaking Truth to Power

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Join artist, filmmaker, writer and professor Zoe Beloff as she discusses her past projects, her current exhibit “Parade of the Old New,” and her work-in-progress “Song of the Essential Worker.” With a focus on social justice, Beloff highlights how to use words, images or whatever is at hand to reveal how society works. Dr. Peter Schweppe, Assistant Professor of German Studies and History at Montana State University, and artist, poet, author and publisher Bird Williams participate in the discussion.

Links
https://new.booklyn.org/catalog/parade-of-the-old-new/
http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/biography.html
http://theworkerswall.com

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Texas abortion providers and advocates share details on the impact of the six-week abortion ban in that state, Marth Stahl discusses Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit to protect access to abortion in Montana, Laura Kaplan describes the historic work of Jane, and Susan Yanow offers practical information about how self-managed abortions can be safe and supported today (see abortionpillinfor.org).

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Dr. Killsback, Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at Montana State University, discusses his award-winning two-volume set of books about the past, present and future of the Cheyenne Nation, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People.

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Hear the sounds of the Big Sky Pride Parade and Rally and listen to interviews with Akilah Lane, Amelia Marquez and Kev Hamm. Akilah Lane is an attorney with the ACLU of Montana, which is leading a lawsuit challenging a new law that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for transgender Montanans to correct the sex designation on their birth certificates. Amelia Marquez, a trans woman born and raised in Billings, is the named plaintiff in Marquez v. State. Kev Hamm is the lead organizer of Big Sky Pride and served as MC for the rally at which Amelia and many other allied groups and individuals made statements. For more information on supporting the transgender community in our state visit TransVisible Montana.

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On March 16, 2021, eight people – six of them Asian women – were murdered at three different massage spas in Atlanta. This shooting followed a wave of attacks targeting Asian Americans coinciding with the spread of Covid 19 across the country. Join Betty Yu, Reiko Tahara, Moie Uesugi and Dr. Elena Shih in their wide-ranging discussions about policing, gentrification, education, art, activism, and personal experiences with anti-Asian violence.

Learn about Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers. Explore Betty’s multimedia project Intimate/Distant: Family Roots and the Pandemic and hear about the Chinatown Art Brigade. Learn about Reiko’s work with Third Cinema and Uno Port Art Films. Read here Dr. Shih’s New York Times Op Ed “How to Protect Massage Workers.”

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Victoria LaFromboise and Jennifer Bearmedicine talk about the ups and downs of living out their commitment to being physically active. Both women are dedicated to promoting health among Native Americans, neither exists in a body that fits the popular idea of what an athlete should look like, and each inspires the other. Listen to their interview to hear about Ice Breakers, Bubble Runs, Jingle Bell Runs, Rez Meltdowns, weight training and burpies, food as fuel and the importance of hearing, “You got this, Auntie!”

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Guests Dr. Lauren Wilson and Kyndra Nevin discuss two bills targeting transgender youth, one that would restrict their participation in sports and one that would reduce their access to gender-affirming medical care. Includes voices of opposition from testimony delivered to the House Judiciary Committee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Join Paul Lachapelle, Deb Albin and a selection of panelists from the 2020 Rainbows Over the Rockies Summit. To contribute ideas for topics and speakers for the 2021 Summit write to paul.lachapelle@montana.edu.

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Bozeman-based Interfaith Spiritual Director Katie Michael-Sanchez and Jen McLellan, founder of Plus Size Birth and host of the popular Plus Mommy podcast, talk about some of their experiences as people living in large – or, as Katie says when speaking about herself, fat – bodies. Topics include how plus-size people are often poorly served in the existing health care system, and how we can create more inclusive spaces for people of all sizes.

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Hear a Zoom kitchen-table interview with Kay Medicinebull and her parents Larry and Rose Medicinebull (and their two-year-old granddaughter) as they discuss their experience with COVID-19 on the Northern Cheyenne reservation and share prayers, songs, stories, memories and hopes.

The family is joined remotely by Kay’s friend Health Education Specialist and Epidemiologist Lauren White. After our interview Lauren sent information showing that:

• The CDC reported that between January 1, 2020, and July 3, 2020, laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Native Americans and Alaska Natives appeared to be 3.5 times that of non-Hispanic whites nationwide.
• Of the four counties in Montana with the highest rates of people experiencing underlying conditions know to increase the danger of COVID-19, three (Glacier, Roosevelt and Big Horn) are majority Native American.
• Big Horn and Rosebud counties, the two counties in which the Northern Cheyenne reservation is located, have the highest known rates of COVID-19 per capita of all Montana counties as of October 3, 2020.
• Abigail Echo-Hawk calls the lack of data on COVID-19 among Native Americans “a national disgrace.”

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Jan Zauha, Humanities and Outreach Librarian in Archives and Special Collections at the Montana State University Library, discusses the new archive COVID 19: Documenting the MSU Experience. Students Jacob, Taylor and Lara offer their thoughts about campus life and on-line learning during the fall 2020 semester. Nina Mondré Schweppe describes her experience with on-line teaching and explains how the Center for Faculty Excellence helps teachers make the transition.

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Gregory Smith talks about growing up gay in small-town Montana and his journey to becoming a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Assisting Priest at St. James Episcopal Church. Ellis Osen describes their experience with conversion therapy, the effect it had on them and their family, and helpful resources such as QSA and the Trevor Project. Haile Jordan Baehr-Gutierrez and Chess Albaneze talk about the drag community, the trans community, and gender fluidity.

Music by Natalie Farr.

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On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees from discrimination. We talk with Kyndra Nevin, Liz Welch and Emmett Schelling about what the Supreme Court decision means and what work still needs to be done to ensure that we can all lead safe, fulfilling lives regardless of our sexual orientation or gender identity.

Music by Natalie Farr.

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