Now that the whole thing with ruby and aqua has..indeed happened..unfortunately..I think Kana and Akane should follow in the footsteps of the yuri godmothers and elope with each other
1790
he takes the newborn girl from his wife
carries her to the neighboring room
cradles her head with his left hand
and gently snaps her neck with his right
1890
a wet towel to wrap her in
grains of rice and
sand in the nose
a mother shares the trick with her daughter-in-law
i had to do it she says
as did my mother
and her mother before her
1990
a newspaper article reads
a hundred baby girls were found buried
behind a doctor’s house in a neighboring village
the wife wonders if that’s where they took her
she imagines her daughter becoming the soil
fertilizing the roots that feed this country
1998
oceans away in a toronto basement
a doctor performs an illegal abortion
on an indian woman who already has a daughter
one burden is enough she says
2006
it’s easier than you think my aunties tell my mother
they know a family
who’ve done it three times
they know a clinic. they should get mumma the number.
the doctor even prescribes pills that guarantee a boy.
they worked for the woman down the street they say
now she has three sons
2012
twelve hospitals in the toronto area
refuse to reveal a baby’s gender to expecting families
until the thirtieth week of pregnancy
all twelve hospitals are located in areas with high south
asian immigrant populations
This is Rafah, The "safe" zone, where 1.5 million Palestinian fled to. You have to understand, what bombing Rafah means.
Please don't look away, while everybody is busy watching the super bowl, Israel commits one of its most deadly and openly genocidal attacks on Rafah. Please don't look away.
Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.
Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human
人間失格 - Ningen Shikkaku
人間 - Ningen - “Human”
失格 - Shikkaku - “Disqualified”
The Japanese title of No Longer Human actually refers to being disqualified from being a human being. Dazai had gotten to the point where he felt he had lost all the qualifications to be considered human, and thus below even the most despicable and worthless human beings.
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