After giving birth in a Saskatchewan hospital in 2001, a doctor performed a tubal ligation on 29-year-old *Lisa, leaving her unable to have more children. She does not remember signing a consent form, but remembers her upset husband saying, “I’m not signing that!” to medical staff. After the surgery, the doctor said, “cut, tied and burned. There. Nothing is getting through that.”
Across Canada and as recently as 2017, Indigenous women report being forcibly or coercively sterilized. Some women were incorrectly told the procedure is reversible. Others were separated from their babies until they consented to a tubal ligation.
Forced and coerced sterilizations of Indigenous women are a result of systemic violence and discrimination against Indigenous peoples in the provision of public services in Canada, a pattern well known and acknowledged by government. They are an assault on Indigenous women, their families, their communities, and their Nations that have already been subjected to forced assimilation through colonialism, including eugenic practices.
Sterilizing women without their free, full, and informed consent is a form of violence and torture. Measures to prevent births within ethnic or racial groups is explicitly prohibited by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
All women have the human right to make decisions around if, when, and how to create a family. All women have a right to live free from violence and discrimination. All women have a right to health.
We ask the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to take immediate action to end sterilizations of Indigenous women without their consent. We ask Trudeau:
Investigates the scope and scale of this pattern of rights violations;
Ensures non-repetition to make sure this practice is halted once and for all;
Guarantees justice and reparations for survivors and their families.
Join the movement to defend Indigenous women’s rights to dignity, health and violence-free lives. Sign and share this petition today.
being out in public spaces with people who don’t have anxiety issues is so fucking weird
like. they want/need to do something and just.. go do it. they just DO things without hesitation or being overly awkward or weird. they just. they just go and do things! just like that!
that?? does not compute for me????
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…the usually mild-mannered young professional woman that lives on the other side of my bedroom wall has been enthusiastically singing along to very loud queen music all morning
You’ve spent your whole life locked in libraries and studies, learning about the world around you without ever entering it. You’re filled with jealousy of those who do. Your past sins are sloth and envy. How do you plead?
sloth/envy strikes me really hard as code for depression/anxiety disorder double whammy u feel me? Griffin also describes Barry as ‘always nervous.’
also the implication that a middle aged dude who’s lived a pretty sheltered life is suddenly going into space? sounds a LOT like a mid life crisis.
Barry: *literally hops onboard a rocket ship to escape the fact that he spent 20 years collecting degrees not leaving any meaningful impact on the world*
Contrast with Lup’s “I did this world and kind of… crushed it?” *leaves this stink planet*
LOVE THAT CONTRAST! that dynamic! Lup who’s older and experienced and has done things, seen things! Barry saying he looks up to her, calling her the love that defined and redeemed him! it’s so GOOD
i’m working on my Barry character study rn and he’s just a MESS…i love him so much. he’s never been particularly good at people or emotions but he becomes defined by the love he feels for his family and it literally sustains his humanity! the growth! is so good
His character arc is to become an undead monstrosity powered by love and i think that’s beautiful
Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).
Juno Steel is the kind of person who grumpily tells the hallucinatory ghost of his brother– who has been dead twenty years or so– not to touch his stuff.
I just want you guys to know that the woman of the confused lady meme is a Brazilian actress
it’s a scene from a soap opera. her character was called Nazaré Tedesco. This was one of the most iconic roles in all of Brazilian soap operas. So here goes another iconic scene (it’s Nazaré kidnapping a baby) that you guys can use to make memes:
I’m so glad this post is still going around
wtf this entire time i thought she was the tall lady from american horror story
But with all the jagerkin around, it was inevitable Zoing heard about hats.
It wasn’t so much that Zoing got along with the jagers.
Just he was very impressionable.
And jagers always were talking about hats.
Hats seemed important!
Some had feathers.
Some were very, very small.
All of them had great colors.
There were the ones with wide brims.
Some were pointy on top!
Some were taller than Zoing.
Zoing always had a new hat to tell Gil about.
Till one day, finally, Gil acquired a hat for Zoing.
Zoing’s very own hat!
Suddenly, the jagers were very aware of the blue arthropod’s existence.
Especially this one hatless jager.
Zoing felt sorry for that jager.
Until the jagers all tried to pounce Zoing.
Tried to snatch Zoing.
Tried to squish Zoing.
They also thought Zoing looked pretty tasty.
Gil always managed to stop them.
Even when he was not much bigger than Zoing himself.
Somehow.
Still, this happened a lot.
Especially after the Baron let slip his son needed extra training.
Zoing got very good at running with tea.
Gil got very good at fighting jagers.
To this day, Zoing remains undefeated.
I’ve been thinking nonstop about Zoing with a little cup of tea running from a pouncing jager. I’ve thought about it so much I’m now half convinced this must already be art given how well I can visualize it. If you art, would draw this, and take commish, message me?
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