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Because I'm only seeing other Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our communities. We're worried, and we need people to know what's happening to us.
Indian Child Welfare Act & Supreme Ct.
Listening to the oral arguments for ICWA has been rough. Alito opening a question with, "Since all the tribes were at war with each other when they were discovered..." It's frustrating to be reminded so readily that the US Gov't truly sees itself as the parent of Wild Natives. The second rep for Haaland did what I would consider a fantastic jobs of qualifying how the challenge is being brought by people who are basing their argument mostly on hypotheticals. But I'm not a SCOTUS expert, I have no idea if by a Court standard he's doing well. The Justices certainly seemed to be aware of the stakes.
During the Dunn testimony, after guy literally opened with "Your Honors, do you have any idea how much money it would cost the state of Texas to actually check every child in foster care for tribal membership??" It would be hard to argue this was about anything other than money, let alone even remotely related to the welfare of the children. If that wasn't enough they concluded their arguments with "That child was a citizen of Texas in the womb, it wasn't an Indian until it was registered with the tribe after it was born."
Which, frankly, should chill the blood of literally anyone who understands the words "It's a girl!" According to the man challenging ICWA, that phrase should be rewritten: "Felicitations citizen, we may one day allow you to meet the person you carried in your belly for us." Considering the US invading Haiti... Considering what happened to Roe... Considering all the kids still imprisoned on the border... That so many on the Left who claim to be allies and care about minorities but are barely even mentioning ICWA? Well, it's telling.
Way too many Lefties try to tell me they can't keep up with this sort of stuff because they think "big picture", because they're concerned with "ideas". Okay: I was just told "The state literally owns children and can do with them as it pleases". Discuss. Hell, during the midterm seven different states had ballots for removing legal slavery from their constitutions. Great they finally decided to do it, grotesque they still had it. Even more telling was it passed in Oregon, but 45% of the voters said they still wanted to keep it.
Which, hopefully, emphasizes when people say slavery was already illegal, they lied. When people said Natives were extinct, they lied. If we were extinct, the government wouldn't be trying so hard to get rid of us. When people said we are in a post racial world, they were depending on a lie that we were not here so they didn't have to deal with us.
I know people who were part of the 60s Scoops in Canada. I know people who were in Boarding Schools in the US. I have friends who were adopted out. This isn't ancient history. Heck, the term "Transracial" was invented to describe how alienated they felt from normalcy, and it ended up with a white lady stealing the term. Seems fitting really.
Tweets from Rebecca Nagle (rebeccanagle on twitter) from November 09, 2022: Tweet 1: Here is why media coverage that centers or only tells the story of the white foster families in #Brackeen [Haaland v. Brackeen] betrays a deep anti-Indigenous bias: it erases what happened to the Native families #ICWA Tweet 2: Every Native child the plaintiffs fought to adopt had a blood relative that wanted to raise them. Every Native relative got push back--from a social worker, foster parent, family court judge or all three. Only one grandma was able to adopt her grand baby--after fighting for 6 YEARS.
Please join me in asking President Biden to issue an Executive Order protecting Native children and preserving tribal sovereignty.
girl i love you but girl please consider looking at the sources before posting the claim that 14 thousand Iranian protesters are sentenced to death, okay girl? the sources are tabloids and they count on people believing the lie since most of the west already thinks of Iran and the global south as uncivilized. girl you can help by getting informed and not reposting imperialist propaganda that wants to build the ground for sanctions and military intervention. down with imperialism girl
I'm always kind of wary of narratives of autistic interaction that are like "well, autistic people just aren't interested in relationships, they don't like meaningless social interactions"
Because I think there is a mix of trauma, alexithymia, and false narratives being pushed by literally everyone else that leads to this being the narrative that even autistic people tell when it might not actually be the whole story
Because, like, my mum remembers me being excluded from play by other kids before I have my first memories
We know that allistic kids can tell something is "off" about an autistic kid in seconds and not want to play with them
And we know that some of the methods used by neurotypical kids to bully neurodivergent kids is winding them up - deliberately setting off sensory issues or using frustration triggers that they've identified - and that leads to autistic kids being told "that's not bullying, that's you over reacting"
And this treatment begins very young
So now you've got an autistic kid who's, say, nine or ten, and they don't play with their peers - they sit with a book or on their Nintendo or whatever
And when people (parents/clinitions/etc) ask them "why don't you want to play with the other kids?", you get the combo of knowing that "other kids bully me" isn't believed and alexithymia meaning that they know that the idea of playing with other kids feels Bad but they can't quite put their finger on Why
And when they try to rationally look for an answer, the first one that's likely to come up it's all of the technical aspects of playing with other kids, like not liking small talk because it's "pointless", that come up instead of the trauma
And yeah, I'm wary of perpetuating this narrative as autistic adults that "autistic kids just don't like that kind of play and autistic people prefer to be alone, actually" because it just kind of reeks of the "the other kids only pick on you because you're smart" narrative that absolutely did nothing to help me deal with the trauma of being bullied or lead to healthy relationships in my adult life
i am very, very much not a fan of how the conversation around “transmascs experiencing body image issues after going on testosterone” has been dominated by “what do you expect, that’s what hormones do, you’re not going to look like your anime twink waifu, don’t transition if that makes you upset”
primarily bc it’s shifting the focus away from the violent policing of men’s bodies under systems of oppression that are causing transmascs to have these sudden onslaughts of body image issues to begin with
like, cis men experience these exact same body image issues
cis queer men are socially punished for not being skinny, pale, hairless, and for balding. like, bears are a counterculture within queer spaces for a reason. fat, balding, hairy, nonwhite, and visibly varsex men are heavily policed in the queer community and the subject of a vast amount of intracommunity violence. they’re excluded from community-building and mutual aid, seen as sexually undesirable, mocked, viewed as predatory and dangerous, and discriminated against systemically.
fuck, straight cis men experience this form of body policing as well. straight cis men are also expected to be skinny, albeit a different kind of skinny, and to only have the “correct” kind of body hair (often mocked for having neckbeards, having body associated with being varsex or a person of color, etc). they experience discrimination and violence for balding, being fat, etc etc etc.
suddenly having a body type that’s subject to violence is dysphoria-inducing. if you were viewed all your life as a skinny white girl, and now all of a sudden you’re viewed as a fat balding dude and read as predatory because of your body/facial hair, you’re going to experience a massive influx of fear, betrayal, and disordered thinking about your body. you are suddenly experiencing a wave of cisnormative body policing, ableism, and often a very different kind of targeted racism than you grew up being subject to–this is a massively fucking destabilizing experience.
pushing the onus of that experience onto individual people reacting badly to it is covering up, and even to some extent doing apologia for, the systemic racism, ableism, and cisnormativity that are shaping the responses to transmascs bodies. like, yes, that’s “just what testosterone does.” but how are you shaping the spaces you are in to react to bodies that are balding, that are fat, that are hairy, that have visibly conflicting sex characteristics, that have signs of disability like “weirdly-kept body hair” and “moving aggressively” and “talking loudly,” how are you making the people around you feel about these traits?
look at the spaces you move through–are they ones that uplift testosterone-dominant and otherwise varsex bodies? do they celebrate deep loud voices and neckbeards and chest hair and big noses and big shoulders and fat bellies and balding in their body positivity? do they view them as socially appropriate, as positive aspects of the space, as sexually desirable, as lovable? if not, then why are you expecting transmascs to view themselves that way?
Begging people to understand that homophobia doesn't mean "being mean to gay people because they're gay", misogyny doesn't mean "being mean to women because they're women," and transphobia doesn't mean "being mean to trans people because they're trans."
These are all intertwined systems of oppressive social control.
The whole THING is that gender policing of all types is used to keep people in line to make them act "normal" (to act as their gender should).
When a young boy doesn't want to play football and his brothers do, and they call him a sissy, they are being homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic. Even if he is straight and cisgender.
If a cishet woman is derisively asked "what are you, a lesbian?" For having short hair, she has experienced homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny.
One of the reasons it's so necessary to discuss them is because they are systems of control. The words aren't just describing types of hate crimes etc perpetrated against certain groups of people, it describes the violent aspects of cisnormativity, heteronormativity, and the patriarchy.
This post was made bc im mad about ppl being like "how would a person not lgbtq experience homophobia" (something I literally just saw) and "trans men can't experience misogyny and especially not transmisogyny" and "I'm a wholeass lesbian I can't be homophobic" (both sentiments I've seen multiple times before almost word for word). Those are just a few examples of the stuff I've seen said online from people who unfortunately don't understand how systems of oppression work to keep everyone in line.
Transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny are all inseparably intertwined because they come from the same place and have the same purpose.
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abled ppl who insist they aren't ableist are actually so chill with eugenics until you call it eugenics
"well offering euthanasia to people with disabilities who can't afford to live is–" eugenics. it's eugenics.
"why do disabled people have children? I mean they're just consigning them to this painful life–" eugenics <3
"but their quality of life is so reduced how can they justify bringing kids into–" ✨eugenics✨
"maybe medicine has advanced too far. I mean why are we keeping people with [insert condition here] alive when their quality of life–" EUGENICS
idc if you're ✨concerned✨ for my ✨quality of life✨ that's a) not your problem and b) something which could be improved by providing better accommodations for disabled ppl and making sure we have to deal with less ableist bullshit and ableist assholes like yourself.
Not a long time ago my classmate asked me to draw her something on her ipad. It ended up with this :^)
Birds of the Russian Woods. Written by Ghennady Snegiryov. Illustrated by Valentin Fedotov. 1970.
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Designs for most of the Minecraft animals <3 planning to implement them when I'm finished with the monsters!
Twitter thread by user charitieropati from Nov 09, 2022, regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA):
hearing justices on scotus ask “what if the child doesn’t want to be treated indian” during the ICWA hearings makes me so sick. They don’t understand how tribal sovereignty functions at all.
literally still in shock after hearing those comments. It is so scary that ICWA lies in the hands of people who have no understanding about how our tribal nations work. The hypotheticals and questions were just shocking.
Like no basic understanding. I feel so sick and anxious.
And the casual laughter in the courtroom & the question about natives being “at war” while tribal sovereignty is being threatened. It’s disrespectful and sick.
“What if the child doesn’t want to be treated Indian” pretty rich coming from the crowd that vehemently opposes critical race theory or having anyone in the queer umbrella near their children in schools, and wants to further entrench Christian ideology in public schools & government
The same exact crowd that wouldn't let children make the choice to use puberty blockers now wants to allow children the permanent choice of whether or not they leave their entire history and culture behind.
I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"
And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can convert indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).
AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.
The Indian Child Welfare Act is at the center of a Supreme Court case, where its challengers are reportedly represented by a firm connected
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this is cultural genocide. it happened when jewish children were stolen from their families during ww2 and given to christian families to raise as christian, it happened with residential schools where american indigenous children were stolen to have their culture beaten out of them, it happened to australian aboriginal children when their government literally tried to breed indigenous australians out of existence. we cannot let this keep happening. we cannot allow white christians to continue to steal our children and rob them of their culture and family and community.
I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.
Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.
Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.
This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.
Twitter thread by user charitieropati from Nov 09, 2022, regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA):
hearing justices on scotus ask “what if the child doesn’t want to be treated indian” during the ICWA hearings makes me so sick. They don’t understand how tribal sovereignty functions at all.
literally still in shock after hearing those comments. It is so scary that ICWA lies in the hands of people who have no understanding about how our tribal nations work. The hypotheticals and questions were just shocking.
Like no basic understanding. I feel so sick and anxious.
And the casual laughter in the courtroom & the question about natives being “at war” while tribal sovereignty is being threatened. It’s disrespectful and sick.
