#genocide tw

[headspace-hotel]

New website to add to your bookmarks list: allaboutbison.com.

Here is a good article discussing the extermination of American bison and all the evidence that it was deliberate genocide against the Native Americans.

[thetransfemininereview]

The Birth of American Anti-Trans Law – A Brief History of Transfeminine Literature, Pt. 4

A hyperbolic descent into the Antebellum period in search of the origins of American anti-trans law.

After hundreds of hours of writing and research, I am done with my long form exposé on the early roots of American anti-trans law. Looking both local and national, I picked apart America's first five anti-trans laws.

These obscure laws helped shape policing, slavery, book bans, AND transphobia 😐

[vettedfundraisergaza]

What is next?

They confirmed the famine, and then what?

Nothing happened.

People are still dying of hunger

and Islam doesn’t want to be one of them nor his family.

@beetledrink @spaghettioverdose @specialmouse @tlirsgender @grox @minmos @slimetony @juney-blues @hollowtones @aflo @skunkes @wolfertinger666 @smoqueen @wayneradiotv

Today, the United Nations officially declared that Gaza has entered famine.

And this is not just numbers or reports — it is the faces of children whose bodies have turned into skeletons. Some have already died of hunger, while others are waiting for their fate.

In Gaza, children go to bed hungry for nights on end, their tiny hearts stopping because food and medicine are forbidden.

These are not scenes from history, but a crime being committed right now in front of a silent world.

Every image is a cry for help, a call for life from Gaza to all of humanity:

Stop the famine. Save the children. Before an entire generation vanishes before your eyes.

[mirrorofliterature]

*takes away the word genocide from star wars fans* you're not getting this back until you understand this word and stop throwing it around nilly willy about fiction

*throws a pamphlet about transitional justice and restorative justice and leaves*

[fox-faggot]

Just in case anyone still thinks Auggles is arguing in good faith, ever. Wasted time to take her bait.

[teaboot]

How do Canadian schools teach about indigenous Canadian history and culture? -a curious USAmerican

In my experience we learned about colonization at the same time as we learned about the formation of Canada. At first it was "European settlers came and pushed out the indigenous population", then in the higher grades we learned more about the how and the why.

For example, how carts full of men with rifles would ride around shooting Buffalo, then leaving the meat on the ground to rot, because "a dead Buffalo is a dead indian", which was so fanatical it almost wiped out wild Buffalo entirely

Also how Canadian settlers were lured in with beautiful hand-painted advertisements for cheap, beautiful, fertile land that was unpopulated and perfect, if only you'd sail over with your entire family and a pocket full of seeds- only to be met with scared, confused, and angry lawful inhabitants already run out of ten other places, and frigid winters, and rocky, forested, undeveloped dirt.

also, smallpox blankets, where "gifts" of blankets infected with smallpox were intentionally given out

And treaty violations- Either ignoring written agreements entirely, or buying them out at insanely low prices and lying about the value, or trading for farming equipment that they couldn't use because they weren't farmers.

Then in the first world war, where they told indigenous peoples here that they'd be granted Canadian citizenship if they enlisted

To Residential schools, which was straight up stealing kids for slavery, indoctrination, and medical experiments

But we also covered the building of the Canadian Railway in which Chinese immigrants were lowered into ravines with dynamite to blow out paths through the mountain for pennies on the dollar

And the Alberta Sterilization Act, where it was lawful and routine procedure to sterilize women of colour and neurodivergent people without their awareness or consent after giving birth or undergoing unrelated surgeries

But I'm rambling.

We kind of learned Aboriginal history at the same time as everything else? Like. This is when Canada was made, and this is how it was done. Now we'll read a book about someone who lived through it, and we'll write a book report. And now a documentary, and now a paper about the documentary. Onto the next unit.

And starting I think in grade 10 our English track was split between English and Aboriginals English, where you could choose to do the standard curriculum or do the same basic knowledge stuff with a focus on Aboriginal perspectives and literature. (I did that one, we read Three Day's Road and Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, and a few other titles I don't remember.)

There was also a lunch room for the Aboriginal Culture Studies where Aboriginal kids could hang out at lunch time if they wanted, full of art and projects and stuff. They'd play music or videos sometimes, that was cool

And one elective I took (not mandatory cirriculum) was a Kwakiutl course for basic Kwakwakaʼwakw language. Greetings, counting to a hundred, learning the modified alphabet, animals, etc. Still comes in handy sometimes at large gatherings cause they usually start with a land recognition thanking whoever's land we're on, with a few thanks and welcomes in their language.

And like- when I was in the US it was so weird, cause here we have Totem poles and longhouses and murals all over and yall... don't? Like there is a very distinct lack of Aboriginal art in your public spaces, at least in the areas I've been

My ex-stepfather, who was American, brought his son out once, and he was so excited to "see real indians" and was legitimately shocked to learn that there weren't many teepees to be found on the northwest coast, and was even *more* shocked when we told him that you have Aboriginal people back home too, bud. Your Aboriginal people are also named "Mike" snd "Vicky" and work as assistant manager at best buy.

If you'd ask me, I'd say that the primary difference is that USAmerica (from what I've seen, and ALSO in entirely too much of Canada) treats our European and Aboriginal conflicts as history, something that's tragic but over, like the extinction of the mammoths, instead of like. An ongoing thing involving people who are alive and numerous and right fucking here

But at the end of the day, I'm white, and there are plenty of actual Aboriginal people who are speaking out and saying much more meaningful things than I can

So I'm just gonna pass on a quote from my Stepmum, who's Cree, that's stuck with me since she said it:

"You see how they treat Mexicans in America? That's how they treat us here. Indians are the Mexicans of Canada."

[mindflamer]

(original by caseyincontext, she/they)

[queerbauten]

Canada looked at a song contest that is being boycotted more intensely every year due to it normalizing genocide and thought, “we want to be a part of that”