Welcome to the Campaign to #FreeMaddesynGeorge. Maddesyn (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a survivor of domestic and sexual violence who has been incarcerated since July 2020 for defending herself against a white man who raped and threatened her. #MMIW #SurvivedAndPunished (1/6) @FreeMaddesyn is organized by Maddesyn's defense committee, a coalition of members of Maddesyn’s family, survivors of gender violence; and advocates, organizers, and scholars who work on colonial, sexual, and domestic violence, policing and incarceration, and #MMIP. (2/6)

🧵 If you missed yesterday's #FreeMaddesynGeorge press conference, here are some highlights from our incredible panel of speakers that called on @USAO_EDWA to drop the charges against Maddesyn before her sentencing hearing on 11/17: “Violence against indigenous women was and is an integral part of colonization. . . The fact that Native American and Alaska Native women have been dehumanized throughout U.S. history informs present day attitudes...”

"My name is Yvonne Swan. I am an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation... [Maddesyn's] case is very similar to mine, which became a landmark State Supreme Court case (State of WA v. Wanrow) establishing the right of women to self-defense." (1/4) "The federal prosecutors scared her like the state did me at first. If she and I were affluent white women, and our rapists were Native men, would the police and prosecutors have treated us so badly?" (2/4)

Welcome to the Campaign to #FreeMaddesyn George. Maddesyn is a 27-year-old member of the Colville Confederated Tribes who has been jailed since July 2020 for defending herself against a white man who raped her and threatened her life. #MMIWG2S #SurvivedAndPunished Maddesyn is being prosecuted by the fed govt and facing as many as 17 yrs in prison. The closest fed prison for women is in CA, more than 1K miles from her child, family, and community. #familyseparation #reproductivejustice