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A Senate committee studying a bill to establish a criminal offence with respect to sterilization procedures heard emotional testimony from a survivor of coerced sterilization on Thursday.

"It's like you wiped out a generation," Nicole Rabbit, a member of Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice, an organization for Indigenous women who are survivors of coerced and forced sterilization, told the committee in Ottawa.

Bill S-250 an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures) would make forced and coerced sterilization punishable under the Criminal Code by up to 14 years in prison.

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They're working so fucking hard to ban TikTok but they can't even ban child marriage at the federal level. Or the state level for that matter! Only ten states ban child marriage as of 2023. And they want to take away our free speech?

They can get fucked. This is the shit radicalizing us. Facebook and Instagram steal and sell our data, but when TikTok does it they have a problem because it isn't going to the US Government (as I understand, I could be wrong there).

But still! These old fucks keep taking away our rights and supporting atrocities around the globe. Why are they so surprised when we put our feet down and say no? Millions of people are dying everyday in wars they didn't even partake in.

Make no mistake, no matter what the history books write, we the people will remember this. We will remember these atrocities and continue talking about them until real change happens.

yes this is uncomfortable to witness. it should be. we must never get apathetic or immune to the heartache and rage this causes. genocide is not normal. do not look away. do not normalise it. do what you can to stop it.

"The health situation of pregnant women in Gaza." from Bisan, 26/Feb/2024:

keep telling people to "just leave" until there is no where else to go.

Texas doctors have been turning patients away because they face up to 99 years in prison, at least $100,000 in fines, and the loss of their medical license for violating the abortion bans. This means pregnant Texans are being forced to either wait until they are near death to receive care or flee the state if they are able. 

"You don't have to reblog a post if you don't want to, don't be pressured to-"

There are multiple GENOCIDES happening right now as we type and we are supposed to be on strike and talk about it. This is not about reblogging things you don't want to; you have a moral obligation to stand up for what is right because tumblr, meta and tiktok are actively trying to supress these voices.

You should be uncomfortable for being silent in these moments. You should feel uncomfortable if you have seen dead people on your dash and that your mutual is talking about a genocide that is killing millions of people and using your tax money to fund all the while destroying the ecosystem and you refuse to say anything. You don't get to be comforted or coddled when people are dying and families are being wiped out.

Do you think the people of Congo are comfortable working in mines to produce your iphone? Or living in the dirty swamps? Do you think the people in Sudan are comfortable being displaced, having their properties stolen, starved and being murdered if they are not a specific race? Do you think the people of palestine dying of hunger and disease whilst being bombed everyday are comfortable ?

Anyways, what do I expect from an app full of white people -particularly americans- who do not care when it's not about them.

You deserve to be uncomfortable for being silent.

7.12.2023

17177 Slaughtered!

46000 Wounded!

You actually have to be brain dead if you believe Romani women are oppressed for our ~gender identity and not for our biological sex. You listen to trans activists and they tell you "misogyny is hating women and a woman is someone who identifies as a woman." But Romani women never could and never can identify out of our oppression, because it is sex-based. Just look at history. For 500 years Eastern European Romani women were raped by their white 'masters'. During the Atlantic slave trade, Western European Romani women were shipped off to American colonies and sold as slaves on plantations to be bred with black slaves. They were literally called "breeding slaves". During the Holocaust, Antonescu's army established brothels consisting only of Romani women, who were also forced to serve in brothels in Nazi concentration camps. Still today Romani women make up a large portion of the women trafficked and forced into prostitution in Europe. Are they oppressed because they identify as women? Could they escape all of this by just saying "actually I go by he/him"? No, they are oppressed because misogyny is about being oppressed for being of the female sex. In this context, saying otherwise is victim blaming.

Several European countries (Germany, Sweden, Czechoslovakia) forcibly sterilized Romani women over the course of the 20th century. Misogyny against Romani women has always been about controlling our bodies, our reproductive abilities, sexually assaulting us. No one would want to identify into that and not wanting to suffer that doesn't mean you're not a woman.

That's why transactivism doesn't mean anything to Romani women who know just a little bit about our history. When you're constantly assaulted and persecuted because of your biological sex, it makes no sense to turn around and say "womanhood is a feeling, misogynists target the people who feel like women"

(I don’t know how to put things under a readmore so spoiler alert for the Barbie movie)

I think my biggest issue with the this movie was just its general political incoherence, of course the Barbie movie produced by Mattel isn’t going to be a groundbreaking work of feminist theory but I wish they had thought harder about what points they wanted to make and what the movie actually said about the issues.

One specific thing that really got to me was the sheer amount of dialogue where characters just stated the political perspectives we’re supposed to take away, which firstly, what happened to show not tell? And secondly, the rest of the movie often undermined those statements pretty egregiously. Case in point, 10 minutes after the “women shouldn’t have to constantly mother and apologize for men” monologue, Barbie is kindly and patiently consoling Ken as he cries about how being in charge is so difficult and he really only reinvented patriarchy because he felt friendzoned and emasculated. Also case in point, after opening with a whole spiel about how Barbie saved girls from the omnipresent pressure to be mothers, a big chunk of the story revolves around a mother-daughter story which imo could have been totally omitted without significantly affecting the film.

My problem really isn’t that it’s not a great feminist movie! I didn’t expect it to be! It is the Mattel Barbie movie! It’s a marketing vehicle dressed up as a feature film dressed up as political commentary! But it’s still deeply frustrating to me that the filmmakers did a bad job of making the point they were trying to make. There’s a lot of potential that this movie just would not have been able to live up to by virtue of its corporate identity, but even within those limitations, it could have been so much more. And yes, there were lots of really good and interesting story elements, it was visually excellent, it was entertaining, all of that, but I feel like the ways in which it was a good movie just made me more disappointed that it wasn’t better.

i wonder if labour-based organising is lionised a little too much in leftist spaces.

Borrowed from theadoptedchameleon on IG 💛

"women's day" while women are having c section without anesthesia... I hope you all perish.

Article from the 18th of February, 2024.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

- Poem by Martin Niemöller

( With all that's going on this giant floating rock rn, I feel that this Poem couldn't mire reflect it. Let's not make the same mistakes twice )