#i was sincerely like. if i don’t get a hysterectomy As Soon As Possible i will literally kill myself.

[ghostzzy]

related to lrb

i had kidney stones when i was 10yo. but when a 10yo girl starts complaining of intermittent stomach pain and blood in the toilet, medical professionals will laugh and say “congrats on becoming a woman, go buy some pads and go home.”

well. as you may imagine, kidney stone pain is significantly different than traditional cramp pain, and also significantly worse. like unimaginably bad. like genuinely being run through with a sword, being slowly twisted, for hours and hours at a time.

so being told “this is just your life once a month for the next 30-40 years” was perhaps the most terrifying thing i had ever heard at that point. and i remember, for the first time in my life, saying “i would rather kill myself” and meaning it 100%.

i got home from the hospital - again, 10 years old - and immediately started googling hysterectomies.

[sparksinthenight]

Hi guys! So, I’m sure we all know how many atrocities are being done at the border by Trump’s administration and ICE. I’m sure we all know that under Biden things will be better. But under Biden things will still not be good. ICE will still exist, and it is a horrible organization that is a hazard to human rights and needs to be abolished. Under Biden deportations will still happen, separating families though not quite as badly. And Biden might delay the process of dismantling all that Trump has put in place. He might delay the process of freeing people from immigration detention and reuniting families. I’m writing to him to ask him to not delay in freeing and reuniting the people and to abolish ICE, immigration detention centres, deportations, and to pay reparations. If you guys write too, then we’ll have more pressure on him to act honourably and it’ll be more likely that he does what we ask. So honestly feel free to take two minutes to copy-paste the letter into here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Dear President Biden,

I am writing to you today to ask you to not delay any time in undoing the human rights nightmare that Trump has created for migrants and asylum seekers at the border and to immediately reunite all the children with their families and to close the immigration detention facilities. Do not delay any time in releasing and reuniting everyone. As well, I am asking you to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to stop deporting people who are undocumented, because they have a right to live in America the same as anyone else who needs to. It would also be good if reparations were provided for those harmed by ICE, especially under the Trump administration.

I’m sure you already know the mass atrocities Trump has committed at the boarder. He has separated thousands of children from their families, subjecting them to immense and long-lasting trauma, subjecting them to immense and long-lasting trauma, put them in incredibly abusive situations, subjected women to sexual and medical abuse, and subjected all immigration detainees to horrible conditions, deporting many without a fair trial.

This needs to end as soon as you get into office. No waiting. You need to close the immigration detention centres as soon as possible. You need to release all the people as soon as possible.You need to reunite the children with their families as soon as humanly possible. And you need to ensure that every single child is reunited with their family.

Hopefully you will also provide reparations for all the people who have had to go through this nightmare and all the people who have previously had their lives harmed by ICE. Also ICE itself needs to be abolished. It has shown itself to be a horrible organization run by horrible people. Finally, undocumented people should not get deported. Undocumented people are among the most vulnerable people and they just want better lives for themselves and their loved ones.

Sincerely, ____________

More background:

Separating a child from their family is an incredibly traumatizing and cruel thing to do to a child. Children need to have stable, steady, continuous, and constant frequent access to their families. They need it for their mental and emotional health and development as well as their physical health since mental health has a huge effect on physical health. The parents of over six hundred and thirty children have been lost and they might never be reunited again. This is horrific.

And the children have been abused incredibly as well. They have been placed without enough adults to take care of them, and older children are having to take care of younger ones. The adults that are around are emotionally, verbally, and even sometimes physically and sexually abusive towards the children. The children have to sleep on the floor with the lights on, they don’t have access to soap and toothpaste and proper sanitation, and the food they get is not nutritious. This abuse, also, is incredibly traumatizing and adds more trauma onto the trauma they already face from being separated from their loved ones. Some children have even died, including a boy as young as just two years old.

Women, also, are being treated horrifically in immigration detention. Sexual abuse is rife. Many women have gotten hysterectomies against their will and this is eugenics and it is genocide tactics.  A recorded thirty women have gone through miscarriages and the people who run the detention camps did not give them any help. Those fetuses could’ve probably been saved. This is also eugenics.

Not to mention the conditions at immigration detention camps for people of all ages are absolutely atrocious. There isn’t adequate healthcare. Since 2017, 39 adults have died in ICE custody or immediately after being released. There is not good nutritious food. There is no soap or cleaning supplies. The conditions are so bad that people have committed suicide. It was discovered that some camps were releasing poisonous chemical sprays frequently and it was making detainees sick. The immigration detention camps have been described as “experimental concentration camps” by whistleblowers.

This is what is happening. This is what people are going through. This needs to end as soon as you get into office. No waiting. We can’t slowly dismantle the situation Donald Trump has created. This needed to stop before it even began. People who are being mistreated by ICE cannot wait even another second for their human rights. They desperately need to find peace and freedom as soon as possible.

We need to close the immigration detention centres as soon as possible. We need to release all the people as soon as possible.

We need to reunite the children with their families as soon as humanly possible. And we need to ensure that every single child is reunited with their family.

Hopefully there will also be reparations for all the people who have had to go through this nightmare and all the people who have previously had their lives harmed by ICE. It is hard for someone to rebuild their life after going through such horrific, unspeakable experiences. Children separated from their parents often remain traumatized for years.

Also ICE itself needs to be abolished. It has shown itself to be a horrible organization run by horrible people. ICE, it’s members, and it’s organization structure have done all this. They have shown themselves not just capable of but willing to utterly destroy the lives and happiness of thousands of people including children. They have shown themselves to be deeply corrupt to the absolute core. There is no coming back from this. There is no way to purify an organization as corrupt and bloodthirsty as ICE. They need to be gotten rid of entirely or else they will use whatever opportunities they can to abuse people and will always be a danger to humanity. ICE needs to be abolished entirely.

As well, immigration detention centres need to be abolished as well. Even before the Trump era, they were used to detain and imprison families whose only crime was living in America. They are not something we need in a free and human rights-oriented society. And as we’ve seen, they can be used for mass atrocities.

Finally, undocumented people should not get deported. A lot of them live in America because their home countries are dangerous and they would risk their lives by living there. A lot of them live in America because they face devastating poverty in their home countries and are just trying to make a very basic income to take care of their loved ones. Undocumented people are among the most vulnerable people and they just want better lives for themselves and their loved ones. They have a right to live here, the same as anyone else. They have a right to live here the same as documented people do. They have friends and families that they would have to be leaving behind if they are deported. Deportations, carried out by both the Democrat and Republican parties, have separated families by removing parents and guardians rather than removing children. The children often still have their other parent or at least their next of kin so that’s good but it still puts immense and undue stress on young people.

Deportations need to end. ICE needs to end. Immigration detention needs to end. All the people imprisoned by the Trump administration need to be let go immediately and all children need to be reunited with their families immediately. And reparations are in order.

Migrants and asylum seekers must and desperately need to be treated with the same level of human dignity as anyone else.