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THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

For those of you aren't aware and aren't involved in NDN circles, the Supreme Court just declared that tribal territories and reservations are part of states and are under state jurisdiction, including in regards to charging someone and putting them on trial in state courts for crimes related to the tribe (as opposed to this being left up to tribal courts), undoing decades of precedent for the separation of tribal and state governments.

In a few months, the Supreme Court is also going to be giving a verdict on whether or not the Indian Child Welfare Act, the only thing keeping indigenous children with their families and communities instead of being "adopted" (trafficked) to white Christian families at every chance, is unconstitutional. This act is also dependent on the belief that tribes are sovereign nations and that giving our children to people outside of our tribes is akin to the US government taking Canadian children in the Canadian foster system and trying to adopt them out to American families.

If the ICWA falls, we're going to see a modern Sixties Scoop, with Native children being stolen from their tribes and families and cultures and assimilated into white Christian society. This is not only traumatizing for the children and their families, it's also a form of cultural genocide that has been used against us before and has devastating effects.

There are family members I never knew because they disappeared into the foster system as children.

if someone wants to show their scars that’s their own damn business and it’s not your place to decide what is and isn’t “appropriate” for the larger public to see. what those scars came from is their own damn business. yeah seeing s/h scars could be hard for some people to see, but guess what? some people have a hard time seeing any scars at all, seeing cleavage, seeing skin conditions, seeing someone that just so happens to look like an abuser, etc. and it’s not considered the norm to shove those out of sight for being potentially triggering.

please don’t make comments about people’s scars. please don’t question why your friend is wearing long sleeves even when it’s super hot out. please don’t stare or make us feel any more uncomfortable than we already do. for anyone who’s struggled with self harm and has scars from it, the decision whether or not to wear clothing that reveals them is an incredibly stressful and personal one. so please don’t add any additional pressure to that.

i need to inform you that there there are germ cell tumors that have teeth, hair, muscle, and even nervous tissue, some even growing into pseudo-fetal forms. they’re called teratomas. (if you’re squeamish don’t look it up.) by their logic, if a teratoma were to grow cardiac cells, it would also be a “child” with rights. it’s ridiculous how little they know about biology. just because it has heart cells doesnt make it viable outside the mother. fuckin morons everywhere.

this has actually been reported before. teratomas can become freakishly differentiated:

A. developed a rudimentary beating heart

B. developed a fetal cranial structure as well as cerebral cortex and retinal pigment (cw for images)