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

"..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

"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"