Ordinary Equality x Womanica: Molly Brant (Degonwadonti)

Ordinary Equality

Wonder Media Network LLC

News, Suffrage, Politics, History, Women's Rights, Society & Culture, Reproductive Rights, Equal Rights, Era, Abortion, Equal Rights Amendment

4 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For our first episode of the Ordinary Equality x Womanica crossover season, we’re going way back—more than 100 years before the Equal Rights Amendment even existed—to learn about one of the most important figures of the Revolutionary War. She was an indigenous political leader whose absence from this country’s framing documents set the stage for the fight for the ERA more than a century later.

Join host Kate Kelly and Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller, a Kanien:keha’ka teacher, researcher and performer, as they take us through the story of Molly Brant (1736 - 1796), also known as Degonwadonti.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kate Kelly. This is Ordinary Equality.
0:05.1	You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property.
0:15.8	The struggle for an Equal Rights Amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote
0:21.7	the words that became ERA. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged
0:28.4	by the United States or any state on account of sex. So as we warns today, remember, forward together,
0:36.5	backward, never. If you could change one thing about the
0:40.0	Constitution, what would it be? I would add an equal rights amendment.
0:45.3	Thank you.
0:46.3	Thank you.
0:47.3	We want to?
0:49.3	No!
0:51.3	Today, the House of Representatives cleared a hurdle to make the Equal Rights Amendment, the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
0:57.9	The House voted to remove a deadline for states to ratify the amendment, which would guarantee women the same legal rights as men.
1:25.8	Thank you. On this show, we've talked about abortion rights crusaders and women's rights activists, people putting everything on the line to make our society more just.
1:30.0	I'm so excited to continue our work on a brand new season.
1:36.1	This time, in collaboration with Wamanica, another podcast from Wonder Media Network.
1:41.9	Each episode will highlight a different woman who was pivotal in the fight for equality under the law.
1:48.4	Today we're talking about one of the most influential political figures of the American Revolution.
1:53.9	She was a Mohawk leader whose power was recognized both by the Haudenoshone Confederacy and colonial leaders, even though the framers of the U.S. Constitution tried to write
2:00.0	women like her out of their vision for
2:02.2	this country. Please welcome Molly Brandt.
2:11.0	Molly was born around 1736 in an area by Lake Erie, encompassing what we now know as present-day Ohio.
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