things that exist but you can’t see:
when you’re dissociating and someone asks you a question
“My last birthday, I was surrounded by people who loved me, and the loudest thought in my head was still, ‘They wouldn’t even be sad if you died.”
Source: apartmenttherapy.com
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*gets down on one knee* *gets down on other knee* *lays down on ground* *doesn’t get up ever*
7 indigenous people murdered by representatives of the colonial occupation in the headlines this week: a homeless couple allowed by a callous and racist city to freeze to death under a bridge, a young man shot by police, two women allowed to die in jail cells due to neglect by guards, a 15 year old victim of sex trafficking thrown in a river by a pedophile, and a young man “reasonably” shot in the head by a racist farmer (who has now been acquitted of all charges).
Ernie Evans, Connie Red Nest, Joey Knapaysweet, Agnes Sutherland, Jocelyn George, Tina Fontaine, Colten Boushie.
The Apache poet Margo Tamez has a haunting poem with the lines, “we are not inherently violable, we are not inherently violable, we are not inherently violable.” Those are the words I choose to believe and hold onto in the wake of these gross miscarriages of justice, and a national dialogue that tells us that indigenous bodies and lives are dispensable.
I want to make it clear: this is not just about the individuals responsible for these deaths, but the structures that allow them
Rapid City police have been telling Connie Red Nest’s family to stop setting up emergency shelters, and telling media they “do more harm than good” because they are safe havens for violent drunks
Timmins police have basically been begging people not to riot after they killed 2 people from the same nation in just one weekend
Courts have cleared RCMP of any responsibility for Jocelyn’s death, even though she died because the night guard refused to provide food and water as the medic had ordered, and declined to do multiple mandatory personal checks on her well-being, even though that is standard protocol for every officer on every shift
This week a witness provided testimony that she saw Raymond Cormier sexually assault Tina Fontaine, and make a comment about a river during an argument he had with her a few weeks before her body was pulled from the river; a social services worker also testified that child services knew she was being trafficked, and despite this, police let her go when they stopped her shortly before her death…they are responsible for her death and yet the media insists on portraying her as an addict and a prostitute
Gerald Stanley has just been acquitted of all charges by an all-white jury
Sharing this in case somebody doesn’t know
Men: um I think I’ve taken enough Women’s and Gender Studies classes to know you’re a bitch
– Justin Trudeau
Nailed it.
