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The NC Renaissance Festival has no shortage of cool looking buildings and shops, full of handmade merch! One thing to note is that this particular Ren faire is seasonal and is only open usually around late Sept until mid November. Tickets sell out fast!

#renaissancefaire #RenaissanceFestival #NC #NorthCarolina #travel #travelphotography #buildings #architecture #shops #ivy #plants #handmade #artesian #outdoors #photography #Pixelfed #shotoniphone #buildings #fairgrounds #costumes #crafts #art #Photodaily #autumn #autumnphotography
Pastel Sunset Over Carrot Island
Front Street, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States

Photo location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/34.714184445/-76.661303055

Taken on 2025-02-25 18:09:21 with Fuji 16-55mm F2.8 on Fuji X-H2 with exposure 1/3s @ f/10 @ 16mm @ 125 ISO

Critiques welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo.

#Photography #AmateurPhotography #MyPhoto #HandHeld #LandscapePhotography #Ocean #Reflection #Sky #Sunset #Winter #FujiFilm #FujiXSeries #FujiPhotography #OBX #OuterBanks #NorthCarolina
Taylor Creek Sunset - Afternoon thunderstorms and tornado watch gave way to a wild sunset.
Front Street, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States

Earlier in the day, forecasts for severe thunderstorms and a tornado watch ending just before sunset had me thinking. If the rain and storms ended in time, there cold be some good photos. Half an hour before sunset I stepped outside and saw no rain and golden light. I grabbed my camera bag and ran down to the dock. I think it was worth it.

Photo location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/34.71274/-76.6583477783333

Taken on 2025-03-05 18:06:35 with Fuji 16-55mm F2.8 on Fuji X-H2 with exposure 1/6s @ f/11 @ 16mm @ 125 ISO

Critiques welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo.

#Photography #AmateurPhotography #MyPhoto #Clouds #HandHeld #Ocean #Sky #Sunset #Weather #FujiFilm #FujiXSeries #FujiPhotography #OBX #OuterBanks #NorthCarolina

A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.

newschannel5.com/news/newschan

While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.

We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.

More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:

atlantaantifa.org/2021/12/04/i

atlantaantifa.org/2024/01/30/r

appalachiaresearchclub.noblogs

arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post

News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF) · 'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the influential hate group that's expanding in TennesseeBy Phil Williams
Sunset Afterglow on the Beach
Fort Macon Beach, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States

Photo location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/34.693566945/-76.698040555

Taken on 2025-03-03 18:11:36 with Fuji 10-24mm F4 on Fuji X-H2 with exposure 1/12s @ f/10 @ 10mm @ 400 ISO

Critiques welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo.

#Photography #AmateurPhotography #MyPhoto #BeachPhotography #HandHeld #LandscapePhotography #Ocean #SeascapePhotography #StatePark #Sunset #Winter #FujiFilm #FujiXSeries #FujiPhotography #NorthCarolina
A Wild Stallion and His Ladies - Wild horses of Carrot Island
The Rachel Carson Reserve , Beaufort, North Carolina, United States

Photo location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/34.7056488883333/-76.6522691666667

Taken on 2025-02-26 12:31:08 with Fuji 55-200mm F3.5-4.8 on Fuji X-H2 with exposure 1/125s @ f/11 @ 172.4mm @ 125 ISO

Critiques welcome. Thanks for taking the time to look at my photo.

#Photography #AmateurPhotography #MyPhoto #HandHeld #Hiking #Ocean #Saltmarsh #StatePark #WildLifePhotography #Winter #FujiFilm #FujiXSeries #FujiPhotography #OBX #OuterBanks #NorthCarolina
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America’s Forgotten History of #ForcedSterilization

By Sanjana Manjeshwar on November 4, 2020

"In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) detention center in #Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary #hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained #ImmigrantWomen. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people denouncing it as a #HumanRights violation and yet another example of the current administration’s cruelty towards women and immigrants. Many people, including prominent liberal politicians and public figures, viewed it as something distinctly un-American and at odds with our country’s values — a common refrain that echoed in response to the allegation was 'This isn’t the America I know.' There were countless comparisons to #NaziGermany and other #totalitarian, human rights-abusing regimes, as well as a pervasive sense that the United States was engaging in a uniquely cruel and unprecedented act. Unfortunately, this is a misleading impression.

"While the allegations against ICE are undoubtedly horrific and must be investigated, they are not at all unprecedented or un-American — in fact, they are very American. The United States has a long, egregious, and largely unknown history of eugenics and forced #sterilization, primarily directed towards #PoorWomen, #DisabledWomen, and #WomenOfColor.

"The American #eugenics movement originated in the late 1800s and has always been undeniably based in #racism and #nativism. The word 'eugenics' originally referred to the biological improvement of human genes, but was used as a pseudoscience to justify discriminatory and destructive acts against supposedly undesirable people, such as extremely restrictive #ImmigrationLaws, #AntiMiscegenationLaws, and forced sterilization. The ultimate goal of the eugenics movement was to 'breed out' undesirable traits in order to create a society with a 'superior' genetic makeup, which essentially meant reducing the population of the #NonWhite and the mentally ill. The eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society well into the 20th century, and was not at all relegated to the fringes of society like one might expect. In fact, most states had federally funded eugenics boards, and state-ordered sterilization was a common occurrence. Sterilization was seen as one of the most effective ways to stem the growth of an 'undesirable' population, since ending a woman’s reproductive capabilities meant that she would no longer be able to contribute to the population.

"The Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) decided that a Virginia law authorizing the mandatory sterilization of inmates in mental institutions was constitutional. #CarrieBuck, a 'feeble minded woman' whose mental illness had been in her family for the past three generations, was committed to a state mental institution and was set to undergo a sterilization procedure which required a hearing. The Supreme Court found that the Virginia law was valuable and did not violate the Constitution, and would prevent the United States from 'being swamped with incompetence…Three generations of imbeciles is enough.' The Court has never explicitly overturned #BuckVersusBell.

"California’s '#AsexualizationActs' in the 1910s and 1920s led to the sterilization of 20,000 disproportionately #Black and #Mexican people who were deemed to be mentally ill. #Hitler and the #Nazis were reportedly inspired by #California’s laws when formulating their own #genocidal eugenics policies in the 1930s. When discussing the Asexualization Acts of California, Hitler wrote, 'There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the #UnitedStates.'

"Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. #Black women, #Latina women, and #NativeAmerican women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in #PuertoRico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as '#LaOperación (The Operation)' among Puerto Ricans.

"Black women were also disproportionately and forcibly sterilized and subjected to reproductive abuse. In #NorthCarolina in the 1960s, Black women made up 65 percent of all sterilizations of women, although they were only 25 percent of the population. One Black woman who was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during this time was #FannieLouHamer, a renowned #CivilRights activist. Hamer described how nonconsensual sterilizations of working-class Black women in the South were so common that they were colloquially known as a '#MississippiAppendectomy'.

"Additionally, many Native American women were sterilized against their will. According to a report by historian Jane Lawrence, the Indian Health Service was accused of sterilizing nearly 25% of #Indigenous women during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the year that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court, supposedly ensuring reproductive rights for all American women, the reproductive rights of thousands of Indigenous women were entirely ignored as they were forcibly sterilized.

"Forced sterilization, especially in exchange for a sentence reduction, occurs often in the criminal #LegalSystem today. Government-sanctioned efforts to prevent incarcerated people from reproducing were widespread in the 20th century, and still continue today. In 2017, a judge in #Tennessee offered to reduce the jail sentences of convicted people who appeared before him in court if they
'volunteered' to undergo sterilization. In 2009, a 21-year-old woman in #WestVirginia convicted of #marijuana possession underwent sterilization as part of her probation. In 2018, an #Oklahoma woman convicted of cashing a counterfeit check received a reduced sentence after undergoing sterilization at the suggestion of the judge. According to a report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, almost 150 women considered likely to return to prison were sterilized in California prisons between 2004 and 2003. Although they had to sign 'consent' forms, the procedure, when posed as an incentive for a reduced sentence, generates an ongoing debate about whether or not consent actually exists in these situations. Proponents of the sterilization of incarcerated individuals often cite a lack of 'personal responsibility,' when in reality, many of these individuals face a lack of support and resources. Even if incarceration was somehow the singular determinant of one’s morals and character, sterilization as part of a prison sentence is still a fundamental violation of the right to #ReproductiveAutonomy — something judges and prison officials choose to ignore."

Read more:
bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/20
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony #USHistory #WhiteNationalism #Genocide

Berkeley Political Review - UC Berkeley's only nonpartisan political magazine · America’s Forgotten History of Forced Sterilization - Berkeley Political ReviewIn early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained immigrant women. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people
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#ForcedSterilization of #DisabledPeople Isn’t a Relic of the Past

In a majority of states, #eugenics-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients against their will.

by Julia Métraux
February 27, 2025

"'In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,' Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should—'prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' Forced sterilization, the court held, was not only legal but laudable.

"In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed 'feebleminded' on the grounds of 'promiscuous' behavior. In reality, Buck was raped by her foster family’s nephew. Three years later, with the Court’s blessing, Virginia’s 'State Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded' sterilized Buck against her will. The decision, passed at the height of the 20th-century eugenics movement, has never been overturned.

"'There’s a very different standard being applied to disabled people’s autonomy.'

"To this day, 31 states and #WashingtonDC, still have laws on the books that allow for the practice—and just two, #Alaska and #NorthCarolina, have laws that fully ban the #nonconsensual #sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center. There’s no official account of just how many disabled people have been sterilized under those laws.

"Some of these laws aren’t even that old. In 2019, #Iowa and #Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws that applied to people under #guardianship. Both bills passed unanimously, and the end result is consistent with laws on the books in other states. There was no discourse among politicians—let alone objections—about the ethics of sterilizing disabled people without their consent.

"Sterilization and Social Justice Lab co-director and founder Alexandra Minna Stern said that early IQ tests, which sought to measure intelligence in part on the basis of class- and culture-based questions involving Beethoven’s sonatas, the early United States, and college athletics, were 'used to categorize people who would then be targeted for sterilization,' generally those who were '#marginalized or maligned in some way': in #California and the #Southwest, often #MexicanAmericans; nationwide, #Black, #Indigenous and #poorer white Americans, particularly women. The people behind the tests, Stern says, were 'white, #elite men who wanted to create a certain type of society in their own image.'

"NWLC senior counsel for health equity and justice Ma’ayan Anafi, who is also disabled, told Mother Jones that “forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”

Read more:
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony

Mother JonesForced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the pastIn most states, eugenics-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.

Watching the Sunrise on the Beach Carolina Beach North Carolina

Watching the sunrise on the beach at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, is a breathtaking experience. As the first rays of sunlight pierce through the horizon, the sky transforms into a canvas of vibrant colors, painting the clouds with shades of orange, pink, and purple.

fineartamerica.com/featured/wa

#Beach #Sunrise #NorthCarolina #Hike #nature #wild #landscape #travel #Photography