accountability and war
March 25, 2009
Do you know the PROBLEMS you raise with that baby girl.
DO you know what people think of you when you say you are worthy of being that person.
1. I have read this post several times. i couldnt take it in. i couldnt understand why i couldnt take it in.
cognitive dissonance.
this statement goes against everything that i have ever been told in my life.
also, this statement is true.
isolation, communities, and international womens day
February 25, 2009
1. i am really excited about the fact that folks are interested in this lil blog dream. i had kinda thought that no one be interested. and people would be annoyed that i asked them in the first place. and i put it out there because i had this dream and then another one and another one and it became obvious that the universe was not going to let me get a good night sleep until i did.
2. i am hoping to have it up and basically running for international women’s day: march 8th. but i may not reach that deadline. there is alot going on in my world right now and i dont want to half-ass any of the projects i am working on. including the whole being a mother-thing that i do.
3. this morning i woke up with mary j blige’s version of ‘im going down’ running through my head…
forced sterilizations
December 21, 2008
i give much love to anyone who has had to make the difficult decision to have major surgery that has resulted in not being able to conceive a child. that is an incredible decision. for those of you who felt informed, and weighed the pros and cons and made your choices accordingly, you have my respect (as much as that may mean).
but since i first read about forced sterilizations of women of color by racist doctors in angela davis’s book: women, race and class, whenever i think about it i want to cry. that choice to conceive and bring life into this world stolen from women—all i can say is that the universe’s blessings are manifold.
el compa sent me a link: reparations for eugenic sterilization in north carolina.
North Carolina lawmakers pushed Thursday to offer reparations to thousands of victims of a forced sterilization program now recognized as a shameful part of U.S. history….“Yes, it is ugly. It’s not something that we’re proud,” said state Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, who has been working on the issue for several years. “But I’m glad that North Carolina has done more than any other state to step forward and not run away from it.”…Rep. Ronnie Sutton, the Democratic chairman of the study committee, said because of the nation’s lagging economy, it may not be possible to fully fund the compensation program with an estimated $18 million that would be needed to cover all surviving victims. “Anything with money is going to have a hard road to hoe,” Sutton said. He suggested lawmakers may consider funding some of the program in the upcoming session to get it started and finish allocating money at a later date.
that is not enough money. sorry, but it is true. for all those who wanted children and had that potential for giving life cut from their very bodies, there is not enough money left in this world, to compensate you for what doctors, lawyers, state regulations have ripped away.
and even of the 18 million, that money is largely symbolic, you will not see most of it…and that makes me sadder. they will use the current economic down spiral as an excuse to not materially compensate you (even a little) for what you had stolen from you in order to appease the powers of good, well-meaning, evil folks in this world.
