My uterus, my choice
cultural appropriation vs cultural exchange
eating a polish food at a polish restaurant ran by a polish owners = cultural exchange.
wearing ceremonial japanese robes for a fashion shoot and calling it an asian dress = cultural appropriation.
TW: Racism, Suicide
A lot of people like me who grew up speaking primarily North American indigenous languages have told me they experience a sort of “Pronoun Confusion” where everything in the third person is “it”. The tree is “it” and its leaves are “they”. The grass is “it”…
Girls are known for being “embarrassed” to admit they masturbate. Lets see how many are brave enough to reblog this post.
OOOOOH GIRLS,…
AND THEN
HE STARTS PLAYING
I AM THE DOCTOR
new ringtone
Mother of Gallifrey
jesus shET WHAT IS THIS EARGASM I AM HAVING
MJÖLNIR IN MY PANTS
We request the refunding for critical support services and counselling for criminalised women pre and post release prison in North Queensland by the LNP who cut the funding last week.
Why is this important? Criminalised women have the highest rate of sexual and physical abuse perpetrated against them in our community. Due to this horrendous abuse women turn to self medication with illiiegal drugs and / or alcohol. Nearly 60% of the women have a mental illness.
In Townsville women’s prison over 80% of women are Aboriginal and over 90% of the women cannot read and write. These issues have to be addressed, so that women when released into the community can move on with their lives and not return to drug and alcohol abuse and offending to feed their addiction.
Housing is also a fundamental part of their success on release. The support of our services assists women in healing their traumas and practical needs so when released they can reconnect with their children and families and move towards their goals and being a part of their communities.
(via Save Sisters Inside | CommunityRun)
Sister’s Inside is founded and run by primarily ex-inmate women and some lawyers. It’s been an internationally recognized success model of a service that helps;
- inmate mothers and their children re-establishing or maintain functional relationships during/after imprisonment.
- improved prospects of literacy, safe accommodation and finding work on release.
Allowing how many female inmates in Qld are ATSI women being punished for defending themselves in domestic violence situations, or arrested for petty ‘offences’ related to homelessness, this being top of the list for service shut down tells you exactly where real state priorities are.
Probably not coincidentally: they host the Is Prison Obsolete? Conferences, being one of the few regional public forums about changing the overall high imprisonment of marginalized people, not just services.
Oz folk - pls. signal boost on your other networks, not many politics Oz folk on tumblr. Non-Oz folk - ATSI = Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Native + Black.
Yes!
Support. My Aunty works at Sisters Inside.
Women don’t belong in cages yo!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, especially when race, racism and racial inequality come into it.
The Colorado Plateau of New Mexico still bears the unhealed sores of the Uranium Boom of the last century – radioactive waste piles, contaminated water and hundreds of mines on Navajo land abandoned by companies looking to make a quick profit. Despite the massive contamination, companies want to start a new era of mining in this region.
I know this because I am Diné (Navajo) and live in Church Rock, New Mexico - only yards away from a proposed new uranium mine. As a resident and former miner, I have experienced the effects of uranium exploitation first-hand. Many of my relatives and neighbors, including myself, have suffered health problems due to working at or living near the mines. In fact, one study has found that cancer rates among Navajo living near mine tailings are 17 times higher than the national average.
Knowing the inherent risks of this industry, I am concerned about the long-term effects and threats to the safety and health of our people, our water, and local plants and animals. An elementary school sits near the proposed uranium processing plant and I am concerned about the safety of my community.
Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated. Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken the day after he came home.
Vernon Traversie, who is completely blind, said his nightmare began when he had a heart attack while at the Heart Doctors office in Rapid City last August. He said they immediately sent him a few blocks away to Rapid City Regional Hospital for emergency surgery….read the rest: LAKOTA MAN ACCUSES HOSPITAL OF HEALTHCARE HATE CRIME, By Evelyn Red Lodge
Please read and reblog.
This is so awful it hurts.
I have no words.
YOU GUYS THIS IS THE AREA I COME FROM.
This hopefully explains a lot of the angry that I have.
Waiting for some creatively inspired headdress wearers to honor this indian man by activism on his behalf.
In the meantime, the rest of us can get busy on this.
