Podcasts Culture Fifty Feminist States: Interviews with Feminist Activists and Artists Across the U.S. Ep 5 - North Dakota

Ep 5 - North Dakota

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 10 a.m.

In this episode, we hear from marginalized voices that find strength in the soil of North Dakota. Ladonna Brave Bull Allard is a grandmother, historian, and activist who founded the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and now travels around the world building indigenous environmental movements. Wiljar Ojuro is a young, African American woman who works at North Dakota’s only women’s health clinic offering abortions and represents North Dakota as Miss North Dakota United States.

Highlights include:

Standing Rock + Mni Wiconi around the world [8:20 - 10:30]
The role of women in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests [11:00 - 13:00]
“I'm old now, which means that I can be more daring, more brave, more fierce than anything that ever walked this earth.” [18:30 - 18:50]
Being African American in North Dakota [22:30 - 24:45]
Pageants as a tool for empowerment [25:00 - 26:30]

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Wiljar as Ms. North Dakota United States on Facebook

Sacred Stone Camp on Facebook

Fifty Feminist States on Instagram and iTunes