outside the lines of beautiful

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat. 19. Canada. Rylee Rose

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know just how long 2018 has been? You know how long?

Did you even remember there was an Olympic games this year? Because I didn’t. I thought oh, last year. No. There was a winter Olympics in Korea and I forgot about it.

[thelittlewanderingwitch]

[a-beautiful-you]

*YOU are an absolute fucking babe and YOUR weight doesn’t not define YOU

[magweno]

I found these really cool mushrooms in the woods yesterday

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Aboriginal women say they were sterilized against their will in hospital

An aboriginal woman in Saskatoon alleges she experienced forced sterilization at a local hospital. And she's not alone. Today, we hear those stories and how they are part of a too-common pattern in our country's history.

“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will

Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.

And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.

At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.

Continue Reading.

[happily-morgan]

Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all. That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.

[rosslynpaladin]

Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids, 

you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life? 

Guess what else they do? Double your outrage.

[twodotsknowwhy]

And those two issues are not unrelated. White supremacy pushes an idea of who should be having kids and who shouldnt. White, abled women are prioritized especially ones who arent poor, they should have many kids, to further white supremacy, while those deemed “undesireable” (people who arent white, people who are disabled, people who are poor and uneducated and especially people who are more than one of those things) should be kept from having children for the good of society.

So when doctors refuse to sterilize white, educated women who want it, they are functioning within the same thought process as when doctors sterilize non-white women against their will.

[feltelures]

Since this article came out in 2016, a class action lawsuit has been filed by two of the victims.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has reported on the results of the internal review of the Royal University Hospital.

http://aptnnews.ca/2017/07/27/long-awaited-review-into-forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-at-saskatoon-hospital-finds-covert-and-overt-racism-among-staff/

APTN has also done an investigation focusing on a few of the stories of the women who were sterilised against their will.

http://aptnnews.ca/2017/01/27/aptn-investigates-against-their-will/

[jonsnowboard]

Creative photos from mom and her two daughters

Instagram : @allthatisshe

[rhube]

I love all three of them instantly.

[alentailleur]

This is so pure. I love it

[afronerdism]

I’m in love with the baby. Like she’s too little to take anything seriously so every photo is just cute

[wild-penguin]

Visit Original Link

[sangreymiel]

[imintheleaves]

[ryanmat]

[thebestoftumbling]

[bookoisseur]

I miss this show.

[party-wok]

the way he claps when he says HOT DAMN is what makes it.

[aimee-b-loved]

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a gift and I’m SO MAD for not watching sooner.

BTW, season 4 premieres September 20.

[iloveyoualeclightwood]

the best thing about this is still the fact that the “hot damn” was improvised and thats why they cut away so fast because everyone breaks

[allisonpregler]

Might be my favorite joke of the series

[twink-on-the-brink]

HOT DAMN

[breathebedrooms-deactivated2018]

this room is everything

[hollieturner-blog]

[samisvegan]

hello May.. 🌻🌱🌼🌿 (at Sydney, Australia)

[strawberriiblond-deactivated202]

Where abouts in Sydney :0

[sixpenceee]

Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions. (Source)

[wearethemakersofmanners-deactiv]

[oceansweather]

Of all the strange things to happen in 2017, Smash Mouth explicitly supporting trans people during pride month is by far the most pleasant. Hey now, you’re an all star.

[apricotshark]

the monty hall saga

please watch brooklyn nine-nine

[misskiwi]

hoooOw dare you detective diaz i am your supIORIOR OFFICER! (BONE!!!!)whathappensinmybedroomdetectiveis none of your business (!boOoOoNE?!) dont, ever, speak to me like that again.

[nebula-cnidaria]

I’ve already reblogged this scene but the last comment is a masterclass in punctuation and vocal emphasis.

[meangirlnurse]

actually, i’m not just gonna leave that in the tags: Catholics used the Holocaust as an opportunity to steal and convert Jewish children. Catholic authorities refused to return the Jewish children they “saved” to their families after the Holocaust ended. we have no idea how many children we lost. 

they used our genocide to steal our babies.

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

literal cultural and religious genocide

[leonardo-nierman]

“b-but we love israel? Why won’t Jews be our friends?”

[helloarmchairphilosopher]

I seem to recall a story about the rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh (R’ Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman) who went looking for these children after the war. When Catholic monasteries and abbies tried to refuse him entry, so the story goes, he would ask, I just want to say one sentence to whatever crowd of children you have here. And the authorities in each place would look at this tiny, shuffling, bearded rav and let him in.

So the rosh yeshiva would go to the classroom or the cafeteria or whatever, wherever the children were, and he would put his hand over his eyes and say the six words of the Shema. “SHEMA,” He would start, slowly enough, “ADO-NAI ELO-HEINU,” and he would hear little voices joining in, “ADO-NAI ECHAD!”

And sure enough, when he quickly uncovered his eyes he would see little kids blinking up at him, wondering where he came from. The Shema is the first prayer a Jewish child learns, and it is the last prayer one says before death. Time among Christians would not have taken it from all the Jewish children.

At every place, the story goes, Rav Kahaneman walked away with Jewish orphans, children that the Catholic authorities had denied were Jews.

And everyone forgets that Rafael Lemkin’s original definition of genocide did not require death of the individual; it allowed for the death of the culture.

[fageleh]

Here’s another article on it, which is less open towards the idea that there’s somehow a “grey area” involved in the stealing of Jewish children.