Mercedes Peters
mercedespeters.bsky.social
Mercedes Peters
@mercedespeters.bsky.social
L’nuskw. Glooscap FN. PhDing in history. Storyteller. Big ol horror nerd. Also somehow professional wrestling? I dunno man, I forgot how to bio. She/Her/Nekm
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More info coming in: "The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E."
June 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“This is another battle that the Mi’kmaq will have to fight.”

The battles we need to fight now feel the same. We need to stop the dangerous innovations as they happen, and actively continue to challenge the dangerous innovations that have become normal where we’re at today.
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“The Grand Council (our Sante’ Mawio’mi) has fought through this concept of the Canadian master race democracy and finally entrenched, again, our Aboriginal and Treaty rights…But still there is a blatant discrepancy between our constitutional rights and, in Nova Scotia, administration of justice…
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Once accustomed and commonplace, the discrimination principles always seem less cruel and easier to generalize. After a time, there is no longer a minority and majority. The discriminatory exception has become the oppressive rule…
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“What Nova Scotians did not learn is that success in victimizing a minority emboldens government and endows discriminatory principles of law with a certain aura of precedent and familiarity. The discrimination treatment of unpopular minorities creates dangerous innovation in law…
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The sole reason I haven’t deleted my account is that our community’s main means of communicating to band members is through Facebook. I’ve been thinking so much about what it looks like to strengthen community connection and communication outside of that platform, but we’re all so deeply entrenched.
January 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM