damnit gandalf you can’t just sell out bilbo just like that
one of my most vivid memories comes from when some family friends and I were playing a word game a few years ago. it was like that word game of “say a word and the next person has to say a word that begins with the last letter of the previous word”, only with a twist – the next person had to say a word that 1) not only began with the last letter of the previous person’s word, but 2) had to be one letter longer. so we would go like
person a: it b: tea c: arms
etc.
so naturally the longer you continued and the higher the letter count went, the harder it got, until finally we were all stuck at c – 14 (word is 14 letters long and begins with c). we sat on that one for so long and couldn’t think of a single word, until finally a friend’s dad happened to pass by and we asked him, not expecting anything.
without missing a beat this guy just said “Czechoslovakia”. No hesitation whatsoever. we allowed area names, so we counted the number of letters and it jUST happened to be exactly 14 letters long. he told us he just said the first word he thought of without thinking about the number of letters so he just happened to strike gold his first time playing the game, lol.
I literally fell asleep for two seconds in English today and it was so embarrassing. My friend had to wake me up but I think I did those jerky falling-asleep movements several times x_x I haven’t had so much trouble staying awake before in class as I did these past few weeks
other people’s personal statements: well-structured paragraphs, beautiful flowing prose about the importance of literature in our society, detailed lists of the many significant books they’ve read and in-depth analyses of said books
fat chins are perfect. fat necks are great. fat cheeks are cute. fat faces are perfect, beautiful, adorable, handsome, etc. and if you have a pudgy face i hope you know you look great and i love u
“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will
Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.
And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.
At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.
Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all. That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.
Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids,
you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life?
Guess what else they do? Double your outrage.
This is so common there’s even a book just about Saskatchewan on the topic: An Act of Genocide, by Karen Stote. And this isn’t just a contemporary thing, Canada had a lengthy eugenics legal history, particularly in Western Canada, which targeted Indigenous people, Jews, Ukrainians, and developmentally disabled people. Learn more at http://eugenicsarchive.ca/ including how institutions of eugenic sterilization collaborated with Indian Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals, and how these institutions all sexually and emotionally and physically abused their patients as well as non-consentually sterilizing them.
if youre too scared to drive because you are consumed with uncertainty and fear of what to do and youve convinced yourself that youll mess it up and seriously hurt or kill yourself or others and this leaves you dependent on other people and makes you feel like a useless piece of shit clap ur hands *clap clap*
i made this post two years ago and i wanted to make an addition: as of now i have my license and i can drive without being afraid! i wanted to say that for all of the people reblogging this because they relate. i used to be DEATHLY terrified of driving; i would burst into tears just getting behind the wheel and i couldnt drive on the highway because i was so scared
it took a lot of time, patience, and practice, but i hope this maybe gives some of you hope that you too can conquer your fear. there was a time it seemed absolutely impossible for me, but it DID improve. and i believe in you. i believe that you can do it! push your limits slowly and safely. maybe it takes months, years, but theres a light at the end of this tunnel
❤
this post is circulating again….pls reblog this version instead if u can!!!
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