Women Empowering Women
Though they have recently been gaining traction due to highly publicized events, international movements which stand in solidarity with Palestinian freedom and resistance are anything but new. Though modern political discourse attempts to frame this issue as too complex for the average person to understand or comment upon, it really isn’t.
About a year ago, my mental health was the worst it’s ever been. Looking back on that time in my life, I credit three things with pulling me out of my despair: my community of loved ones, my therapist, and hockey.
There hasn’t been a case in which there seemed to be a unification amongst the internet regarding this “Eat The Rich” rhetoric until very recently. It was on June 19th that news of a missing submersible reached public ears, most people hearing about it on public platforms such as TikTok.
While we’ve certainly made strides in acknowledging how gender based violence disproportionately affects Indigenous Women, and ensuring that we’ve paid respects to victims, we often fail to recognize the root causes of GBV against Indigenous Women. It is then our failure to accept these root causes that allows GBV against Indigenous Women to prevail and prevents our Canadian society from lending our full support, and funding to Indigenous communities.
Thanks to a long history of abolitionist activists, most of whom are people of colour, women, Indigenous and queer people, new possibilities are both envisioned and embodied.