While the historical disdain & hatred for women isn't a surprise, the severity of suffering & the unrevealed stories are frightening & devastating. I balk at what we don't know. This report covers 18/41 of these dark mills & only a fraction of the 231 years of their existence. 1/
I'm overwhelmed by the threads & accounts I've been reading over the last few days. I don't want to do it anymore, but at the same time I feel like we all need to bear witness to this atrocity. 2/
We rightly quiver at the though of the innocent babies. those pure beings so effectively eliminated in a fashion the worst of 20th century humanity could have provided; so callously offered up to strangers, given away by those who had no right to rend. 3/
We rightly shudder at the abject sorrow of mothers forced to return to the prison of the Laundries bereft of a part of their soul, forever in a prison of loss, forever shamed. Their humanity was forfeit due to a society of men who hated the idea of women having bodily autonomy;4/
because of a society of men who abdicated the responsibility of their actions because their dogma insisted upon their right to do so. & this is something that continues to this day & by entities that are, much like Church & State were, meant to protect. 5/
When @AmnestyIreland, its CEO, @NWCI showed incredible myopia & overreach in signing a letter which lobbied the Gov & media to deny legitimate representation to whom they considered undesirables;they told women that their biological reality is meaningless, hateful & overstated.6/
& those forsaken women of our very near past, who were reduced to their component parts & removed from their humanity are now, like their granddaughters & daughters, being referred to by some as "people with vagina's." 7/
& the women who speak against this, who bristle at this, are being cried out at, "Shame, shame." It's not right. Intimidated into silence. The same as always. Belittled into obedience. 8/
History walks beside us. It's up to us to listen to the ghosts so that the path ahead isn't as dark for us as it was for them.
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