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hey there, i was wondering if you knew anything about when the scotus will actually review the ICWA, like what date? i keep looking it up to try and find out oabout protests happening beforehand, but ican't find anything, no date, no protests, and i'm trying to findw ways to help but so far i haven't really been able to find anything, could you perhaps point me to more information on this? i really want to help but so far i can't find many ways to help, much information on it other than tumblr posts, i've watched a few videos and signed a few petitions but i want to help more so if you know of any ways, it would be really appreciated! if not, then that's fine too and i hope you have a nice day.

October itll be up for review, there is no specific date atm. And a decision will likely be made in 2023 according to another article I read.

There are no protests or anything most likely because this is a native concern which unfortunately means that a Lot people probably have no idea it’s happening. Media suppresses us a lot and people generally don’t go out of their way to inform themselves about our issues.

So a way you can help is spreading awareness. Tell people.

Get them to understand that this will put all our rights as natives under threat. Housing, food, even our land, etc. You could make graphics or share some that natives made already. Go out of your way to share posts like that on a regular basis so you there’s no chance anyone on your feed misses the info.

Mention wanting to protest for it. Hopefully some people will share your posts and organizers will start to take notice.

decolonize-the-left:

Updates!

The date that the supreme court will be hearing Brackeen V Haland is November 9, 2022

For those that missed it:

ICWA is the Indian Child Welfare Act. Back in the 50’s-60’s the USA had its own stolen generation that was result of something called The Indian Adoption Project. This project sought to remove native children from their homes and be placed into white families.

And before you start to dismiss this as being serious, I want to show you the UN’s definition of genocide. (I’ll note here that reservations qualify as point c as well).

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What you can do:

  • Sign and share the petition. Even if you don’t think petitions help (I don’t, tbh), share it anyway, we need the visibility. Also consider donating to this source as well, they’re amazing indigenous representatives.
  • Spread posts about it.
  • Comment about it on all the Indigenous Peoples Day and columbus day you’ll see today and the rest of the week. Share it on posts about Thanksgiving, on anything, in the comments of influencers, too. That’s what I’ve done and a few pages offered to make posts and such after. It’s a matter of raising awareness.
  • Get your friends and followers discussing it, too. Help build a dialogue and knowledge surrounding ICWA.
  • And I can’t stress this enough, you need to visibly support us. Draw up flyers for your town, make graphics, share, comment, tweet, retweet, reblog, post, get karma for it, etc. Everywhere on everything.
  • Consider this affects YOU too. If they can justify taking our kids and placing them in homes they KNOW are harmful then consider what else the child welfare system has been up to. Imagine what they’re STILL up to. Imagine many of YOU have been separated from your kids and parents for unjust reasons, reasons intended to harm not just you but your Entire community. If they can justify doing this to us in court, imagine how many horrors that would legalize.

If you defended bodily autonomy then you should equally support the autonomy & sovereignty we have to care for our own children without the intervention of foreign governments.

Governments that not one whole generation ago were brutalizing our children, kidnapping them, and stripping them of culture, btw. Governments that to this day are sterilizing indigenous women in what they call detention centers. Governments that are the very reason this protection exists in the first place.

mooncustafer:

fractal-baby:

I don’t actually care about actors needing to be queer to play queer roles because that leads to very bad outcomes with forcing people out of the closet BUT I do think we should hire a more out gay people to play straight roles. And they should be vocally disgusted with it in interviews and visibly bad at it on screen. You know, to balance things out

This is where we need that interview with Sir Ian McKellen where he explains he was able to do a heterosexual scene because his friend and fellow-actor Edward Petherbridge drew him some how-to diagrams.

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

Start pinning your throw blankets over one shoulder like an ancient traveling cloak. I’ve been doing it as an around the house outfit and the ancients knew what they were doing with that one.

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Anonymous says:

how can you tell if someone has had s*x before?

prohaloplayer replied:

our public school sex education programs are failing our youth

prohaloplayer:

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right

biglawbear:

crazy-brazilian:

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Both of these are super fucking illegal. Landlords can’t lock you out without going through the legal process. Likewise your car can’t be repossessed without that same process. Kill corporations.

zippers:

“not all men” you’re right, uncle iroh would never do something like this.

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somerandomdudelmao:

daftpatience:

daftpatience:

i see a convo w a character ai and i keep scrolling

listen im seeing tags about people agreeing that ai bots can be really inaccurate and i want to point out that this is NOT about that. the ai bot can be as accurate as you want it to be i still get mad at em.

its not about how good they do at emulating a character, its about that they aren’t a person making creative choices and i hate that. i want to enjoy my characters with other people. hold my hand and tell me all about why you think your blorbo is autistic or likes your favourite shitty band. i love you. if a bot randomly shuffles those opinions out idc if theyre even the same ones im exploding it with my mind.

What’s the point of loving content if I know there isn’t someone as obsessively fucked up as me sitting on the other side of the internet

homeofhousechickens:

homeofhousechickens:

It’s all be gay do crime intill you tell someone illegal chickens might be helpful for their situation, if your cool with it and your neighbors are cool with it then you can be the change that gets them legalized in your area especially if you convince your neighbors to get some as well. People doing that is why my chickens are legal in the first place.

And not only are my birds legal because of people doing this stuff before me we are also allowed to sell our chicken related goods without any like a license/permit you can just do it from your house which I know quite a few people who were positively impacted because of that.

tchaikennugget:

dracula: transylvania is not england; you must adapt to transylvanian customs

jonathan, warding him off with the garlic and crucifix the transylvanian peasants gave him:

dracula: no not like that