MeerderWörter’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

MeerderWörter’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Ross wrote: "https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/12...

trinidad and tobago has just legalised gay sex Brilliant :)"

"Wie kann man nur hassen was Menschen lieben, Realität ist."
~ Sookee - Spuck auf Rechts

Seriously, how can one hate what humans love, that is reality...

Very glad to hear that.

Laure wrote: "https://www.taz.de/!5494752/

Als ich den Artikel gelesen habe, konnte ich nur denken, daß ich bald kotzen muss. Das Recht zur Abtreibung ist für Franzosinnen kostbar und es ist schwer für mich zu ..."

Ich hab von einer Geschichtsprofessorin gehört, dass der Unterschied zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich im Bezug auf Feminismus in der unterschiedlichen Geschichte liegt, gerade auch mit dem Dritten Reich.

Marking space because I wanna write in here later.

What is is that she least understands when it comes to settlers/White people? Customs, behaviours...

Ashwin wrote: "Greetings fellow members! I would like to participate in the future skype discussions. Can someone tell me how to get added to the list? Thanks!"

Send Agnes a message and she can add you:)

My feminism is...
...listening to those who are not as privileged as I am
...learning, owning mistakes and striving for a better future
...fighting for all the little girls out there who are castrated for nothing else than stereotypes and ignorance
...fighting for all the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
...educating myself on parts of history that were never a part ...of my school curriculum
...never missing an election, because my ancestors have hard and long fought for this right
...fighting for "My body, my choice"
...reproductive justice is not only a cisgender women's issue
gender identity and gender expression are NOT the same thing
...signing petitions regarding the safety of women.

what is yours?

Nora wrote: "Dear beloved Groupmembers,
Emmas comment about this book remembered me of what I felt when I read a book about racism in Germany (&Europe) from Fatima El-Tayeb. For all people who unterstand german..."

No, but it sounds really interesting...
Will have to see that I get a copy...

At one time a white volunteer nurse berated us for doing the slave work
while the men got all the glory. We were betraying the cause
of womankind, was the way she put it. We told her that her
kind of women's lib was a white, middle-class thing, and that
at this critical stage we had other priorities . Once our men
had gotten their rights and their balls back, we might start
arguing with them about who should do the dishes . But not
before.
p.131
Quote from Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

happened during the siege of Wounded Knee

I wanted to create this topic after reading this article:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-just...

But also I think we need a general topic on Indigenous feminism, because reading one book is not enough, sorry.

Sharing pain - and stories in general...

It is very important to only share pain in a safe environment. Where YOU feel safe and know you don't have to face rejection.
Also, HOW MUCH you share is totally up to yourself and also, it is important to remember that you can share different pains to different extents with different people.
You yourself decide how much pain you share.

It is YOUR pain, and it is valid and real - and YOU get to decide what to do with it when it comes to sharing.

Sharing one's pain can help heal it, but it can be very difficult to share it for many reasons... because of stigma, because of having to think of it again, of what happened that caused the pain.

When sharing pain, it is also important not only to whom you share it, but HOW.
If you write it down, it can help you a lot in the sense that "it is written down, it is out in the open, it is real." When telling someone orally, at least I have for myself found a different outcome. It can be very hard, because you might even lose your speech of so much sobbing and shaking when you share pain by telling someone.

I just find that writing it down can really help someone to process it and work it through, but beware, it might be very exhausting and definitely not an easy experience.

Luiza wrote: "Hi! I'm Luiza, I'm 30 years old and I live in São Paulo/Brazil.

I joined this bookclub because I want to read more books in 2018 and I am interested in reading the books listed here.

I'm very gla..."

If you go to "Bookshelf" in the upper-right corner, (on the desktop, it doesn't work on the app) you will see a header "read" on the left side. Those are the ones we have read already.
You can also scroll down to the bottom and then see which books have been read already.

Keith wrote: "The two part autobiography of Mary Brave Bird:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

At just under 600 pages they are ..."

Wounded Knee, the occupation of the BIA headquarters, she's been around.

To all of you who have so kindly written messages (and to everyone else who read what I wrote):

I hope I didn't shock you. I hope I didn't trigger any bad memories or feelings in you.
But I have kept back, I have not shared the worst, only the worse.

Thank you for having my back, my friends, you know who you are.

Lewis wrote: "@Meerder, I don't really know you but, according to what I see here, you seem to be one of the strongest person I ever seen and I'm proud to have the privilege to contribute beside you on this foru..."

Thank you Lewis.
Together, we will make the world a better place.
Buffy wrote this song for all of us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo6bf...

Thank you all for your messages, they mean the world to me!

My dear OurSharedShelf!

I'm sitting here not really knowing what to write about and yet knowing what I want to write about...

I am the wandering loner,
the shepherd looking after the sheep, wandering around lost,
I look into the world and wherever I look I see injustice...
It's exhausting, to turn from corner to corner and always find more and more people who need help...

Help...
that is what I would have needed, that little baby that I was.
But instead, they decided to cut me up, and do horrible things to me...
It didn't stop there... in my childhood...
I've spent much much too much time in hospitals, for whatever reason.
I was never given a choice - NEVER!

But now *I* have to live with the consequences.
But the worst is having to find out, bit by bit, the whole story, completing the jigsaw puzzle piece for piece.
Confusion - Anger - Rage - Hurt - Sadness

Until I was 16-17 years old, I thought I was the only person like me on the planet. Well, this is not the case:
https://www.facebook.com/oiieurope/ph...

Ugh, am I glad that winter is over, winter was awful. Having one's past stuck in one's head is NOT what I wish on somebody... I have enough of hospitals and doctors telling me what to do...
Well, it didn't stop with them telling me what to do... I wish doctors would have kept their fingers off me...

I wish I wouldn't be reminded of it every single day... EVERY SINGLE DAY
It is so tiring, everything...
To not see myself represented...
https://www.facebook.com/oiieurope/ph...

IntersexGenitalMutilation sucks, believe me...

I think Winnie Mandela deserves a place here too:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...

Ashna wrote: "Dear OSS,

There is such a powerful message in this song.A song that shows change is from us,by us.Given all the marches for change that are going on all over the world to silence the violence and ..."

Thank you for sharing this, Ashna!

Pam wrote: "That's a lot of nuance being shared. I took the liberty of jotting down a few questions that came out of the discussion.

- How much of the author's heritage colored the audience’s expectations of..."

That are some very good questions you have there, Pam!

Sierra wrote: "I follow @indigenouswomenhike and @nativewomenswilderness

They both are supporting a campaign for #MMIW with tee shirt sales. I recommend checking them out!!!"

Thanks for sharing, I will check them out!