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​The Weekly Report is a recap of all the information from Sunday Nights with Faye Seidler! This is a community oriented news show that covers and promotes local organizations and events in and around North Dakota. Often focusing on news impacting marginalized populations, deeper context to local stories, or giving opportunities to get involved or remain hopeful.  All episodes are air live, but you're welcome to view them or listen to them like a podcast!​ 
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considering matthew sheperd
Dakota Pro Musica is hosting two showings of Considering Matthew Shepard. A fusion Oratorio performance by Craig Hella Johnson exploring the life of a murdered young gay man in Wyoming that sparked national conversations on LGBTQ+ rights, acceptance, and safety. 

The showings will take place in Minot on Oct 5th and Bismarck on Oct 6th. Both showings will be free thanks to a number of churches and community organizations donating and fundraisings for the event. This is the 25 year anniversary of a tragedy and it is worth reflecting that these events aren’t long forgotten history but something most of us grew up with. 

While LGBTQ+ safety has increased, we have had over 500 laws targeting LGBTQ+ populations in some capacity in the 2023 legislative session. This is a time to reflect on how we can keep our LGBTQ+ youth safe, particularly in schools. 

Event Links - Free Shows
Minot: Oct 5th at 7:30 PM - https://www.facebook.com/events/277964898274232/ 
Bismarck: Oct 6th at 7:30 PM - https://www.facebook.com/events/265825436219943/

​More Information
(Link) Dakota Pro Musica
(Link)  Matthew Shepard's Story and Foundation
(Link) Trevor Project 
(Link) Matthew’s Place - Site for LGBTQ+ youth
(Link) PFLAG LGBTQ+ support group

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Remembrance and Healing Walk
On September 29th, the Indigenous Association hosted the Remembrance and Healing Walk, also the Fargo Orange Shirt day. This walk was the third one that was hosted in Fargo and came about after the local indigenous community started a conversation with the interfaith community in 2020 about the generational violence and trauma inflicted on indigenous populations through boarding schools. 

What followed was several difficult conversations, grief, processing, and from it space to heal, remember, and walk together. The event this year featured approximately fifty people walking with signs that Every Child Matters and orange shirts to remember the trauma that Phylis Webstad experienced being robbed of her identity at a boarding school as a child. 

The walkers of this event formed a healing circle where sage was burned, prayers were shared, stories were told, and dogs howled. Tanya Redroad, the Program Director of the Indigenous Associated, commented on how boarding schools taught people how to treat native folks. And while these schools are closed, we still see their impacts in our institutes today. 

After the walk, individuals went back to the Indigenous Association where hours of effort into refreshments to create a warm and welcoming space was served to conversations, reflections, and hope. 

I’ve compiled different resources for getting involved, where indigenous youth can find grants or opportunities for support on the Weekly Report - entirely thanks to the effort of the Indigenous Association for posting so many helpful resources on their Facebook and the work they do year long. While this is a summary of one event, the work being done by countless people across our state in big and small ways should not be underestimated, but we should all reflect and more importantly listen to ways we can heal going forward from the people directly and indirectly impacted by boarding schools. 


  • (Link) National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
  • (Link) Books to Honour Truth and Reconciliation Day
  • (Link) A final Journey home for Carlisle 
  • (Link) Trauma Response Resources 
  • (Link) Brief history on Orange Shirt Day

Grants for Youth
(Link) Center for Native American Youth: Champion of Change -
  • Details: Native Youth Ages  Ages 14 to 24 
  • Deadline Oct 22nd
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​(Link) USDA Office of Tribal Relations - 
  • Details: 5,000 scholarship grant to indigenous students conducting tribally relevant natural resource issues
  • Deadline Dec 1st

Support for Youth
  • (Link) The Indigenous Association
  • (Link) N8V Circle 
  • (Link) Moorhead Indian Education
  • (Link) Fargo/West Fargo Public Schools Native American Education
Fact checking opinion letter

Linda Thorson wrote an opinion piece to the Inforum suggesting hormone bans are appropriate. Thorson is the ND Chapter Director of the Concerned Women for America (CWA), which is according to wikipedia a socially conservative evangelical Christian non-profit women's legislative action committee in the United States.

Thorson includes three links to support the position hormone bans are appropriate. The first by an article put together by Stephen B. Levine and a second doctor associated with the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine. These are two individuals known for explicitly anti-trans activism within medicine and not respected within the broader scientific field. They’re the equivalent of biologists who support creationism. 

The other article that was shared showcased the difficulties transgender individuals have, but denounces the efforts to legislatively ban hormones, which Thorston likely wasn’t aware of. The third piece is just a think piece talking about the study she already shared. It does bring up a misconception that European countries are banning care, which isn’t misleading and comparable to the bans we see in the united states 

She ends with a detransition of an individual, that’s one of less than 10 people who make up all the national coverage on detransition stories. Misinformation on medical care is only as effective as it is because most people are not medical researchers, transgender, or experienced doctors. It’s important to accurately weight the information appropriately and while concerns are appropriate - every major medical organization in America supports appropriate care for trans youth.   
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Articles References
(Link) Written Letter: Care Concerns:
Further Information ​
*This isn't a thorough debunking and examination of this care. It's just some added context to some of the common misinformation that occurs. 
UPCOMING EVENTS
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GET INVOLVED
Meaningful job opportunities
Advocacy: Policy + Partnership Manager - CHAD
Youth: Head Start Aid and Child Care Substitute - SENDCAA
Human Service: Advocate - RACC
Human Service: Peer Specialist + Several Positions - F5 Project
Human Service: Social Services Coordinator NEXUS
Open Grants, Scholarships, or Surveys
(Link) Open Survey about how economies impact families in North Dakota
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Will feature Grant Timeline Soon!
Volunteer opportunities 
State Paid Volunteering for House Testing - Great Plains Fair Housing 
Virtual: Digital Media Volunteer - Prairie Action
Bismarck Proficient in ALC - Adult Learning Center
Fargo Abortion Support - Plants for Patients 
Fargo ​Community Art Space  - Parachigo
Fargo Anime Convention - Anime Fargo

Need ideas? Check in with Local:
  • Homeless Shelters 
  • Food Banks
  • Recycling
  • Events you like attending! 
The News: Last Week
In Politics and Policy News
  • (Link) HRC survey indicates general public not interested in LGBTQ+ bills or trust politicians with them. 
  • (Link) One million dollars to address climate related health and environment issues
  • (Link) Education and advocacy around civic engagement for Western Rural MN

In Equity News
  • (Link) Data on Elevated Access - pilot program to get folks abortion and trans care 
  • (Link) Creative Change Conference is Happening 
  • (Link) Radio program talking about Downtown Engagement Center
  • (Link) Northern North Dakota Suicide Prevention Effort (GLS) Grant
  • (Link) Resilient + Inclusive Moorhead is an effort to connect marginalized communities to representatives to create meaningful change for equity and environmental justice 
  • (Link) Story involving black man who alleges being racially profiled during traffic stop

In Health News
  • (Link) The Hill reports the montana judge blocks hormone ban and likely will declare law unconstitutional 
  • (Link) I talk on the bottom line about suicide prevention work

In Data and Training or Surveys 
  • (Link) New Data, with the first LGBTQ+ Adult Data in 10 years. 
  • (Link) Open Survey about how economies impact families in North Dakota
  • (Link) Suicidality reduces when patients can immediately access hormone therapy in randomized trial 
  • (Link) Data from ND Compass shows those in poverty significantly less likely to have college degree
  • (Link) Data showing 70% of North Dakota youth have both parents working
  • (Link) Endocrine Society article on impact Gender Affirming Bans have on State Providers
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In Community News
  • (Link) Many important Grand Forks Community Resources
  • (Link) National Coming Out day is Oct 11th
  • (Link) Rural Leadership Program just started a new cohort of rural leaders taking 18 months for leadership development
  • Planned Parenthood is offering In-Clued sex education for ages 14-19 - Coming January/Will be at Summit
  • (Link) Hollywood writers strike deal, potentially ending six month long strike. 
  • (Link) Homeless Shelter in Grand Forks
Q and A with FAYE
Question: How is it going?

Answer: Oh wow, just fantastic. I've come so far on so many projects that felt impossible a few months ago! Thanks for asking question box. You really mean a lot to me! I'm glad we can have these private conversations at the end of this report that nobody checks! Why I could admit all kinds of embarrassing secrets, such that many of my professional pictures with the yellow flannel still include the M sticker for medium. Ha Ha, glad nobody will ever catch that!
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