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The Beast that Bothers
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‘I was only a child’: Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception (Miranda Bryant, The Guardian, March 29 2024)
"Hedvig Frederiksen had been at her new school in Paamiut, Greenland, for only a couple of days when she was summoned from her dorm to the local hospital by a Danish caretaker.
She was 14 and had no idea what was going on.
“But back then [1974], when a Danish person said something, their word was law, you had to listen to them,” said Frederiksen, speaking from her home in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
About a dozen girls went to the hospital, some as young as 13.
One by one they went into the doctor’s room and one by one they came out crying. Frederiksen was terrified but felt compelled to stay put.
Her daughter Aviaja Fontain told the story as Frederiksen quietly wept.
“When she came in [to the doctor’s room], her memory just disappears and she thinks it’s because of the trauma, what happened in there.
Her friend from the same dorm said the doctor didn’t have a helper; he was alone putting spirals [contraceptive coils] inside girls.”
Frederiksen, now 63, is one of 143 Greenlandic women who this month announced they were suing the Danish state, demanding a collective payment of close to 43m Danish kroner (£4.9m) for what they describe as a violation of their human rights.
They accuse Danish doctors of fitting girls as young as 12 with intrauterine devices (IUDs) in an attempt to reduce the population of the former colony, now an autonomous Danish territory.
It is believed that 4,500 women and girls were affected between 1966 and 1970, with many more procedures carried out without consent in subsequent decades, but it has taken a long time for the reports to surface – and to be taken seriously. (…)
After a visit last year, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, Francisco Calí Tzay, highlighted the scandal as a particularly disturbing element of Denmark’s colonial legacy, condemning the structural and systemic racial discrimination inflicted on Greenland’s Inuit people and its ongoing repercussions.
“Despite significant progress, the Inuit people still face barriers to fully enjoying their human rights in both Denmark and Greenland,” Calí Tzay said, adding that he was “particularly appalled” by the testimonies of women forcibly fitted with IUDs.
Greenland ceased being a Danish colony in 1953, although it did not have its own government and parliament until 1979.
Healthcare and living conditions improved, life expectancy increased and the Greenlandic population grew.
It was then that the Danish authorities are believed to have staged their drastic intervention.
The programme of involuntary birth control would go on to halve the birthrate within a few years. (…)
She remembers the cold tools he used to insert the IUD, the shock she felt and “tremendous pain”.
She said he told her that the reason it was being fitted was “so I shouldn’t get pregnant”. “I was only a child,” she said.
“I was only 14. And when I was back at the dorm I cried in the evening because I couldn’t talk with my parents and I hadn’t given any consent, nor did my parents.”
Contraceptive coils are now a safe and highly effective form of birth control.
But Larsen, like many of the women who have come forward since the 60s and 70s, went on to experience serious reproductive difficulties – a consequence, they say, of being forcibly fitted, with no consent or information, with unsophisticated devices that were often too big for their young bodies, bringing with them additional risk of infection.
For Larsen, that experience felt like an assault. She was in so much pain that “afterwards I felt like I had shattered glass in my abdomen”.
Later, after she got married and tried to get pregnant, she found that she could not.
Years later when she was examined at a hospital, they found her fallopian tubes were closed because of the coil, which had caused severe bleeding and left her sterile. (…)
After being fitted with the coil, Frederiksen remembers, she was in a huge amount of pain.
All the girls walked back to their dorms crying and feeling ashamed, she said, and they started getting extremely painful periods.
The coil remained inside her for eight or nine years because the doctor did not tell her when it should be removed.
After having it taken out she became pregnant with Aviaja, but the next time she became pregnant her fallopian tube ruptured and she lost a lot of blood.
Her lawyer has said this is a common side-effect in women who were forcibly fitted with coils. Many years later, Frederiksen had two more children.
While she is happy about the legal case and the support they have received, she is filled with anger and sadness when looking back on what she endured as such a young child.
“If that had not happened to me, I wouldn’t be as shy and ashamed for many years,” she said. “And if that had not happened, my life could have been very different.”"
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Silly comic inspired by this one https://www.instagram.com/p/C4uBYL9LWRq/?img_index=1 from DangerousBride(https://www.instagram.com/dangerousbride/)
I can assure you they are friends, but he do love to tease her
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My Heart Will Go On (6x17) April 15th, 2011
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The Expanse | 3x10. Dandelion Sky
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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.
Employee-customer solidarity
Even if they don't- Your review can be the thing that wrecks someone up accidentally;
"Janie was so helpful when I wanted to buy a new washing machine on Friday, she stayed with me for half an hour and wasn't pushy at all, we had a good laugh about our cats' silly antics and she got Adam and Suzy to carry it to the car for me- 10/10 excellent service, I'd come back any day!"
-But Management has a policy that workers should spend no more than 10 focused minutes on any customer at a time, and that they should always try to upsell the insurance and the higher price model, so Janie was breaking policy.
-And they aren't supposed to have their phones on the sales floor, so now Janie is going to be quizzed on whether she was showing photos of her cat to a customer.
-Adam is a warehouse worker and shouldn't have been in the front-of-house at all, Suzy is a porter, and store policy is both to use a trolley to move heavy items, and that only the porters should do it, so now Janie is in trouble for pulling Adam off-task, Adam is in trouble for walking through the shop floor, and Suzy is in trouble for poor handling procedure. Maybe the store even has a paid delivery service that Janie was supposed to upsell as soon as you said "I can't put this in my car without help", so this was all against policy.
Your review should always be as bland as possible, "10/10, five star service, will shop here again, thank you to Janie at the Town Street branch" You NEVER know what was technically a rule-break, capitalism is not your friend, the review process is part of the panopticon.
FIVE STARS, TEN OUT OF TEN, VERY GOOD, NOTHING MORE.
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In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
A good samaritan indeed
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Not to be a Boomer but your social media should be your own space, not something employers are allowed to look at to judge you beyond the qualifications stated in your resume and cover letter
The other day my work had us take a social media survey about what social media platforms we’d be comfortable posting about our products on and I selected “I don’t use social media” before immediately coming over to Tumblr to dunk on them
the unholy trinity
[ID: A collection of articles and excerpts from each.
1. "Why You Need to Stop Baking Bread" by Caren White. The header image is a collection of bread.
You see, I am one of THOSE people. You know the ones. You offer them a plate of food and they look at it suspiciously asking "Is that organic?" I want to know what is in my food so I make it myself. By the way, croutons? Made from my homemade bread. Breading for fried chicken? Made from my homemade bread. Stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey? Made from my homemade bread. So when you buy up all of the flour and leavening ingredients for the sake of pretty photos on your Instagram feed you are literally taking food from my mouth. And the mouths of other families who also do their own their baking so that they can provide healthy food for their families.
2. "How Millenials Killed Mayonnaise" by Sandy Hingston.
MY SON JAKE, who's 25, eats mayo. He's a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He's a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women's and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise. And she's not alone. Ask the young people you know their opinion of mayo, and you'll be shocked by the depths of their emotion. Oh, there's the occasional outlier, like Jake. But for the most part, today's youth would sooner get their news from an actual paper newspaper than ingest mayonnaise.
3. "My son's tattoo hurt me deeply" by Tess Morgan. The summary reads: "When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signaled a change in their relationship."
"On my arm," he says, and touches his bicep through his shirt.
His lovely shoulder.
In the silence, he says, "I didn't think you'd be this upset." After a while, he says, "It wasn't just a drunken whim. I thought about it. I went to a professional. It cost £150."
£150? I think, briefly, of all the things I could buy with £150.
"It's just a tattoo," he says, when the silence goes on so long that we have nearly fallen over the edge of it into a pit of black nothingness. "It's not as if I came home and said I'd got someone pregnant." It seems to me, unhinged by shock, that this might have been the better option.
His father asks, "Does it hurt?"
"Yes," I say, cutting across this male bonding. "It does. Very much." End ID]
I genuinely beg of you to read The tattoo article:
It's one of the most unhinged things I've read in my life, I kept waiting for a punchline that never came.
So this is a "two of these are parodies and one's real, guess which", right?
Right?
Please?
PLEASE read the tattoo article
I have never laughed harder in my life. Talk about tone-deaf
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Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
Abortion saved my college best friend’s life. She miscarried one of her (very much wanted) twins, but it didn’t spontaneously abort because it was sharing a sac with the other fetus. Both that fetus and my friend developed sepsis before she went into Planned Parenthood. She had to have an abortion because otherwise she would be dead in 2-3 says. She grieved but she lived.
Fifteen years later she is happy and thriving and runs a rescue with her husband for dogs that have too severe health issues to be adopted normally. They put all their spare income into surgeries and meds and rehab for them. And she has a medical massage practice that specialized in sports injuries and chronic pain.
That is so so much good in the world that would not have happened if she had gone through that today! Arizona has outlawed any abortion and I keep thinking of all the best friends who are going to be lost now because of it. And it breaks my fucking heart.
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The Expanse | 3x13. Abaddon's Gate
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The Expanse | 3x09. Intransigence
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really cool article about the FBI ignoring a neo nazi mass shooter who would eventually commit a mass shooting at a gay nightclub so they could focus on planting a pink haired cop in a protest movement and get her to introduce these protestors to some hilariously obvious undercover cops posing as arms dealers. the SOMEX parts of this are serious tho they are using social media to gather info on protestors and target them and fabricate charges and make their lives hell and it is causing the death of movements like this.
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🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀
Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜