A spokesperson in a village on Rabi island, Fiji is urging the Fiji and Kiribati governments to stop an exploration process led by an Australian mining company to extract the remaining phosphate on Banaba island.
A few hashtags relating to something that still happens in far too many countries but really needs to stop, because in all its guises it is abuse, if not torture:
I’m grateful for the Scottish Green Party’s place in the Scottish Government meaning that an end to LGBT+ conversion practices is in sight
(I didn’t say LGBTQIA+ because I don’t know for sure where the less-talked-about sexualities and gender identities will fit, nor whether this will have any effect on forced surgery for intersex children)
I know this has been talked about in the Scottish Government at some point, but there is sadly no plan at the moment to include ABA (applied behaviour analysis) or PBS (positive behaviour support) in an initial conversion practice ban
Regrettably, these practices are being used increasingly in the UK and Scottish context, yet conversion practices that vainly attempt to make Autistic people neurotypical are no less abhorrent than conversion practices that attempt to make people like LGBT+ people cishet 😖
A handy timeline comparing the pathologisations of queer and Autistic people:
Wie ihr bestimmt alle wisst wurden Konversionsbehandlungen, also die sogenannte "Homo-Heilung" bei Kindern 2020 in Deutschland verboten.
Wusstet ihr, dass Konversionsbehandlungen bei autistischen Kindern und Jugendlichen immer noch angewendet und unter dem Begriff Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) beworben werden?
Die autistische Community klärt seit vielen Jahren über die schlimmen Folgen dieser Behandlungsformen für Autist·innen auf.
Nun gibt es eine Petition, die ein Verbot von ABA-Therapien analog zum Verbot von Konversionsbehandlungen bei Kindern fordert. BItte zeichnet diese Petition mit und unterstützt den Kampf der autistischen Community für die Rechte der Kinder. Vielen Dank!
P.S. #Stimming doesn’t just relieve stress, and ABAers aren’t “unwittingly” grooming kids for exploitation. #ActuallyAutistic and otherwise #Neurodivergent scholars, activists, and #ABA survivors have been saying #behaviorism violates #HumanRights and nonhuman #AnimalRights for decades. As Leonard Cohen said, “Everybody knows.”
Fiji, Kiribati urged to stop phosphate exploration process on Banaba island (www.rnz.co.nz)
A spokesperson in a village on Rabi island, Fiji is urging the Fiji and Kiribati governments to stop an exploration process led by an Australian mining company to extract the remaining phosphate on Banaba island.