Auction for Indigenous Women and Girls with Disabilities

Kwey Kwey,

Many people are not aware that Indigenous women and girls with disabilities are bigger targets of sexual violence because they cannot hear, see, walk, or run.  As a matter of fact some women and girls are not able to speak up or scream that they are  being, or have experienced, the trauma of a sexual assault.

One of the barriers I have in raising awareness about this matter is that people make assumptions and/or repel when I use the word "disability". Sadly many elders and traditionalists themselves are a barrier to my process of raising awareness because they prefer to rest on the traditional teaching that children have "gifts" that we nurture; we do not talk about disabilities. 

While it is true that traditionally we talk about people and their gifts, the reality is that due to a lack of land, clean land, clear air, clear water, and due to poor sewage, poor housing, and poor nutrition the Indigenous body has been landscaped with a higher rate of disabilities.  See #IWagWid for more information.

That said, I once again created an online auction to better serve #IWagWid, and I need your help. I am asking you to join the auction asap, invite your friends through the invite button asap, and bid on the many items.  I will be using the funds raised to offer a public talk on the relationship between land loss and the higher rate of disabilities.  

Awareness is the first step toward change. I need your help with this.

Here is the link:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/711242806601128

Chi-Miigwetch

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​Lynn is an author, advocate, artist, and public speaker. Her work encompasses both anti-colonial work and the celebration of Indigenous knowledge. She challenges Canada’s practices, policies, and laws of colonial genocide such as the land claims and self-government process, sex-discrimination in the Indian Act, the continued destruction of Akikpautik / Chaudière Falls–an Anishinaabeg sacred place, and Canada’s lack of policy addressing Indigenous women and girls with disabilities who are bigger targets of sexual violence. 

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