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having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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O' Canada.

You've made my entire life feel like it has just been spent suffocating in heavy blanket. Tirelessly searching for a way to catch some air from being smothered.

I don't feel very True North Strong and Free.

This internalized racism swallows me with shame. The externalized fills me with fear.

O'Canada,

Constant reminders of who I am, where I come from, weighs on me dearly.

O' Canada, please listen.

I drag this rotting baggage I was born into behind me like a dead body. I have to be something more than this. There has to be something more than this.

(Idk just a vent/shitty poem. feeling like these feelings are exacerbated today bc of a physical injury and emotional bruises I've acquired over the past 24 years)

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Restless - working title for a poem about C-PTSD flashbacks and recovery work. the work works!! but the work is work.

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The reality of being Indigenous in so called Canada

• Indigenous women and girls make up 50% of human trafficking victims, while only making up about 2% of the population.¹

•If the territory of Nunavut was an independent country it would have the highest suicide rate in the world (135 per 100,000, which is 10x the canadian average)²

•Despite Calgary having a fairly low crime rate the Calgary Police kill more people than any other police force in Canada. In 2018 CPS killed more people than the police forces of Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton combined. ASIRT, the provincial police watchdog, has never charged an officer for these murders. If you control for population, the rate of civilians killed in Calgary by police is 8 times higher than in New York City. ³

•Between August 30th and December 14th 2024, 15 Indigenous people were killed by police in Canada. 15 people in under 4 months. Because Canada does not collect data on victims of police violence it's difficult to know exact numbers, but it's estimated that Indigenous people make up 16% of police killings, while only making up 4.1% of the population. Indigenous people are killed by police at a rate 10x higher than white canadians.⁴

•28% of people federally incarcerated are Indigenous. This number is as high as 40% in women's prisons. Indigenous women are incarcerated at a rate 12.5x higher than non Indigenous women. ⁵

•29 reserves in Canada are under drinking water advisories. Some of these advisories have been in place for more than 25 years. ⁶

•53.8% of kids in the foster care system are Indigenous. In the province I live in (Alberta) that number is more than 70%. ⁷

• 7% of non Indigenous Canadian children live in poverty. 38% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty. ⁷

Canada is not America-lite. Canada is not America's polite northern neighbour. Canada has its own brutal colonial history, and sits on forcibly occupied Indigenous land.

Sources:

¹ https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/f75a4af6-cb87-4796-afa7-02c15c861241/resource/c21f2213-09d4-4fab-b55a-9e91f1bb44f5/download/jsg-reading-stone-survivors-lens-human-trafficking-2022-06.pdf

² https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4501584/

³ https://www.projectcalgary.org/d2f_track_record

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/above-the-law

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https://www.aptnnews.ca/investigates/deadly-force-an-inside-look-at-the-police-involved-deaths-of-2024/

https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/police-involved-deaths-canada-rise/

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https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/oip-cjs/p3.html

⁶

https://canadians.org/fn-water/

⁷

https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851

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please don't be mean to me bc i can be meaner and i hate being mean

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“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

— Warsan Shire

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Hi continuing my bible poem series. If you want to follow the series click here. Thanks! This one is called "Eve" (2/16/25)

"Does anyone think of Eve when they think of the  most moral woman who ever lived? The thirst to know the difference between good and bad despite the consequences before fruit even touched her lips She told God the snake duped her But did it? Or did she feel the need to  feel good to see good to know good To be good? Or maybe just because you know right from wrong doesn’t mean you choose it"

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Biodiversity is bad, actually. I think there should be one big bug that rules everything.

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every porn ad is always 'hot milfs in your area', 'big boob woman in your city', etc etc, and never 'intelligent minds’ or ‘hot souls in your zone'

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I think I've been too nice online. I think a lot of politicians should die and I want the record to show that

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Ok sooooo. and DON'T be mad. We're going to boil you.

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