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never forget that these prison labour “schools,” who used the boys for free farm labour and infrastructure development in nearby settler towns, and used the girls for free laundry, kitchen labour, and sewing, whether in america or canada, had graveyards.

in canada, specifically, the children were subject to government starvation experiments and deprived of specific nutrients to study the effect on their health, for the benefit of cereal manufacturers. this human experimentation led to the understanding of vital nutrients for settler children, and their inclusion on cereal packets, by learning what would happen if you starved native children of them.

If it troubles you, I highly suggest making your own complaints every time you see something like this.

and I don’t know how to explain that being disabled often means having schrödinger’s agency. there are circumstances where we are given agency for the purpose of blaming us for our disabilities. people with diabetes are told they have no self-control, disabled people who aren’t perfect patients are blamed for their ill health, addicts are told they don’t care enough about their own health, etc etc. those are examples of disabled people being allocated more agency than they actually have

Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.

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Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

The brain is an organ. The brain is in fact an organ that is In Charge Of the rest of the organs. Like if your brain fucks something up, shocker, it DOES have an affect on your body!!!! Something being psychosomatic doesn't mean it's like "oh its just an affliction of the soulll the flesh is fiiine" like it just means whatever it is STARTED in your brain really. Like if you have like. Kidney failure and the rest of your body goes "okay we can't handle this" like it would be pretty stupid for someone to go "oh well I should be fine though, it's all just in my kidneys i should just power through the excruciating pain and the fact i can't do things because it's only my kidney that's wrong" like that would sound silly. You'd be like "hey, uh, no, i think you should NOT be powering through ONE OF YOUR ORGANS KILLING YOU?"

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Title: ‘It’s destroyed us’: Parents of children with long Covid accused of making it up

Doctors and parents say children are being threatened with being taken into care as medics struggle to diagnose their conditions and families are placed under suspicion

Parents of children with long Covid claim they have been accused of faking or exaggerating their child’s illness, leading to social services’ involvement and, in some instances, court cases and the threat of the child’s removal from the home.

Doctors struggle to diagnose the condition due to its complex range of symptoms and often treat it as a psychological rather than physical disease, with parents telling i they have been accused of Chile abuse and of fabricating the illness as a result.

One in five parents of children with ME are referred to social services, according to Tymes Trust, an ME charity. Families and doctors warn this is now increasingly occurring with long Covid.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show an estimated 62,000 children aged two to 16 years have reported suffering from long COVID.

Ruby was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND), previously known as hysteria, and her family was reported to social services under suspicion of FII.

“[The local consultant] said: ‘This child is in danger, we need to get her out of the home,’ and that we were harming our Ruby and wanted her to be disabled,” says Ms Rowley, 46. “When she kept saying she was in pain, they said, ‘You’re not in pain, you don’t need pain relief.’”

Dr Speight has been assisting families with ME—and now long Covid— pro bono for three decades. He says he’s seen some 2000 patients in that time, 200 in “real difficulty” where specialized practitioners have stepped in to stop children being separated from their families.

Dr Kane warns that long Covid provisions are set to worsen as the existing Government-funded long Covid clinics are being scaled back and become “optional” for NHS trusts.