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Auntie Up! is a celebration of Indigenous women talking about the important stuff. Aunties can be counted on to speak their truth without the sugar-coating. They will tell you straight up what you need to know and they aren’t afraid to mince words. 

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Auntie Up! is a celebration of Indigenous women talking about the important stuff. Aunties can be counted on to speak their truth without the sugar-coating. They will tell you straight up what you need to know and they aren’t afraid to mince words. 

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Auntie Up! is a 10-part podcast that has just been waiting to be made. It is an unfiltered conversation into the Indigenous world view -- or at least the Auntie world view.

Indigenous women have been seen as disposable, invisible, victims, and subhuman. But they are intelligent, driven, motivated leaders in our communities and are ready to showcase this to the world. Traditional and contemporary knowledge combine to bring you insightful and real conversation about what is important to Indigenous women on Turtle Island, while also incorporating current events and how we relate to them.

About the Hosts

 

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Jolene Banning

Host/Producer


Jolene is an Anishinaabe-kwe journalist, writer, and storyteller whose documentary, podcasting and written work highlights Anishinaabe resilience and culture, and how these intersect with colonialism in northwestern Ontario and across Canada. Bylines/credits include: The Globe and Mail, CBC News, Canadaland, Makwa Creative, and the Canadian Medical Journal Association. She was also the keynote speaker at the 2019 Journalist For Human Rights Gala in Toronto.

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Kim Wheeler

Host/Producer


Kim brought positive Indigenous stories to mainstream and Indigenous media since 1993. She has carved out a career as a writer, publicist and producer across a variety of disciplines. Her audio work has been recognized by the New York Festivals, ImagineNative, Indigenous Music Awards and Prix Italia. Currently, Kim works from her treehouse media office with multiple clients in publicity, magazines, film and podcasts.

 

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Tanya Talaga

Executive Producer


Tanya wrote Seven Fallen Feathers which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult/Adult; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller.

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About the Guests

Auntie Up! makes room in the circle for voices who have various cultural experiences, are geographically separate, and come from many different nations. We will have main hosts while also creating space for guest hosts as we bring unique perspectives to the topics at hand.

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So grab your moccasins, put the tea on and settle in for some real talk by Aunties who refuse to back down.