311: What if you danced for those who couldn’t?
This Is Actually Happening
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
An Indigenous woman from the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation whose grandparents suffered the horrific abuses of the Canadian Indian residential schools finds her own path to healing amidst the ravages of generational trauma on her family and community.
Today’s episode featured Erin Goodpipe. To learn more about Erin and her work, you can find her on Instagram @e_goodpipe. Erin is multidisciplinary artist, educator and researcher involved in a number of media projects, including as a co-host of Treaty Road a television documentary series exploring the history & present day state of the Numbered Treaties in Canada between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples. You can find out more about the project at treatyroad.ca
Erin’s story came to us by way of Todd Rennebohm. Erin was originally featured on Todd's podcast, Bunny Hugs and Mental health, which focuses on conversations with survivors, professionals and families of those who have lost someone to mental illness and addictions. So please check out Bunny Hugs and Mental Health, and a special thanks to Todd for referring today's guest.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, suicidal ideation, graphic bodily injury, alcohol abuse, murder, death, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. I felt like I was living a double life, this one life where you know I'm flourishing as a person and on the other side I have my |
| 0:26.4 | family that's really suffering. It always sort of felt like a weight that I was |
| 0:31.6 | carrying around or that even maybe I was hiding. |
| 0:34.7 | It made me feel like I couldn't experience joy. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misleine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:53.0 | Episode 311. |
| 1:00.0 | What if you danced for those who couldn't? The This episode is sponsored by The Jury Murder Trial, a new true crime experiment on channel 4 that examines the jury system in a way that's never been done before on British TV. |
| 1:36.1 | This innovative new series gives us access to a process usually hidden behind closed doors. |
| 1:41.8 | Be a fly on the wall as actors recreate an entire real life |
| 1:45.9 | murder trial from original transcripts in front of a jury of real people. But here's |
| 1:51.7 | the catch. There's not just one jury, there are two. Unaware of each |
| 1:56.4 | other, they'll hear the same evidence presented by the same people. And both juries will |
| 2:01.7 | have to decide how to rule on the case. |
| 2:05.0 | If you think you know how things will play out, think again. |
| 2:08.6 | One trial, two juries. |
| 2:10.7 | Will they reach the same verdict. |
| 2:13.0 | The jury murder trial, stream now on channel 4. |
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