Not a small piece.

Not a dark chapter.

A fucking stain of genocide, colonization, and white supremacy.

#noprideingenocide #indianact #residentialschools #60sscoop #forcedsterilizations #rcmp #doctrineofdiscovery #mmiw #MMIEP #genocide #colonization #whitesupremacyisterrorism

“A Disability History of the United States” by Kim E. Nielsen #disability #disabled #equality #accessible #History #eugenies #reproductivejustice #neverforgotten #forcedsterilizations #booksky #skybook

"It also officially ended this practice and forced doctors to obtain informed consent before performing sterilization procedures — though as it would turn out, #ForcedSterilizations by state governments would continue into the 21st century"

"..A lawsuit filed on their behalf, Relf v. Weinberger, helped reveal that more than 100,000 mostly Black, Latina and Indigenous women were sterilized under U.S. government programs over decades"
#Racism
#Eugenics
#ForcedSterilizations