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- Tanya Ott
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Laura Secord's (SEE-cord?s) resume is an interesting read. She's a family nurse practitioner at world-renowned AIDS clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. She's taught sex ed to more than two-thousand urban teenagers and advocated for adolescent health in Washington DC. She's also Mojo Mamma -- a poet and actress who appeared in the New York Tour of the Vagina Monologues and has created a one-woman show called Sanapia's Courage Medicine. It?s based on the life of Comanche Medicine woman, Mary Poafybitty who lived from 1895 to 1986. Laura Secord (SEE-cord) shared some of the show with reporter Tanya Ott (TAWN-yuh AWT).
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Actress and poet Laura Secord?s (SEE-cord?s) one woman show is Sanapia's Courage Medicine. She spoke with reporter Tanya Ott (TAWN-yuh AWT).
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Anchor intro: Laura Secord's (SEE-cord?s) resume is an interesting read. She's a family nurse practitioner at world-renowned AIDS clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. She's taught sex ed to more than two-thousand urban teenagers and advocated for adolescent health in Washington DC. She's also Mojo Mamma -- a poet and actress who appeared in the New York Tour of the Vagina Monologues and has created a one-woman show called Sanapia's Courage Medicine. It?s based on the life of Comanche Medicine woman, Mary Poafybitty who lived from 1895 to 1986. Laura Secord (SEE-cord) shared some of the show with reporter Tanya Ott (TAWN-yuh AWT). Anchor Back Announce: Actress and poet Laura Secord?s (SEE-cord?s) one woman show is Sanapia's Courage Medicine. She spoke with reporter Tanya Ott (TAWN-yuh AWT).
Broadcast History
locally on WBHM-FM Birmingham, AL
Taki Telonidis
Posted on December 19, 2006 at 06:33 PM | Permalink
Review of Sanapia's Courage Medicine
This interview between reporter Tanya Ott and poet & actress Laura Secord (from The Vagina Monologues) tells the story of a Comanche medicine woman whose life was the inspiration for a new cycle of poems. Secord eloquently describes how Mary Poafybitty?s story touched a cord with her at a sensitive time in her life, and how Comanche attitudes regarding women and aging are a refreshing change from Western ways of thinking. The medicine woman?s personal story is compelling, as is her affect on Secord?s life. My only quibble with the piece is the format. Rather than as an interview between reporter and guest, I think it would be easier for stations to use were it packaged as a reporter piece, or edited into a monologue by Secord.