isadora barrow @ibarrow

My femininity is powerful, radical and on purpose. Toronto✈Barbados✈Guyana. Joined March 2009

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Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare

4 years ago

Jesus Christ...

Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

4 years ago

While discussing monkeypox, Stew Peters and Stella Immanuel agree that "we should make a law against homosexual sex. We should just say that that's not allowed, it's a criminal offense, and we should lock these people up."

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🇫🇮☠ 𝑶𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒔 ☠🇫🇮 @gkxtitx

4 years ago

@blogTO Capitalism is so efficient that it can even capitalize on the anti-capitalist sentiment. The market has actually managed to take socialism and commodity it, turning it into a consumer trend. And the most astonishing part is that progressives don't even notice it's happening.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

I, like many others, have been outraged by the reports of abuse surrounding Barbados’ Government Industrial School (GIS). Below is a comprehensive (& incomplete) thread discussing what GIS is, some juvenile justice info, & what has caused GIS’s recent infamy.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

March 16th 2021 Loop News reports that the Minister launched an investigation into GIS over the matter.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

March 20th, 2021 there was a press conference where Mr. Braithwaite stated GIS is a safe place for all of its residents. gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/governmen…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

March 20th 2021, Minister Abrahams delivered his address on the matter. This screen grab is on his response to the photograph being taken but the rest of the video can be seen youtube.com/watch?time_con…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

March 20th, 2021, this Loop News article details the transformation of the Board of Management at GIS. barbados.loopnews.com/content/new-bo…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

Screen shots from Loop, March 20th article show that former Deputy Chairperson Marsha Hinds-Layne was one of the voices speaking out against the violations to children’s rights at GIS.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

Let’s fast forward to the investigation findings shall we?

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

The response above came from a Nation News article on April 14th 2022. The article was actually about an attempted escape of five girls from (GIS). “The minister disclosed that the five young women were victims of bullying from their peers.” nationnews.com/2022/04/14/abr…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

April 15th 2022 “The Minister said he continued to hear “anecdotal evidence” of abuse from persons at the institution. But, though he has reached out to those whose names he received, none had an interest in pursuing anything.” gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/no-abuse-…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

April 17th 2022 Barbados Today publishes an article informing the general public that two wards of GIS were missing. This article not only releases the images of the girls but also their names and personal details. I will not link the article.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

April 28th 2022 “The High Court turned down the request of an advocacy group to get two female wards of the Government Industrial School (GIS) relocated from the facility amid abuse allegations” barbadostoday.bb/2022/04/28/cou…

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

April 28th 2022 On this matter former Deputy Chairperson Marsha Hinds states “Just as a judge could remove a child from a home where she deems that the child was unsafe, she could also remove a child from a government institution where she deems that that institution is unsafe.”

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

29th April 2022 Nation Newspaper releases an article on their fb page. “Three of the seven girls at the Government Industrial School (GIS) are now at the Psychiatric Hospital under suicide watch, while another has been taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.”

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

“A couple months” to investigate and find that *checks notes* nothing is wrong and it’s “much ado about nothing” but 3/7 girls at GIS are on s**c*d* watch at the Psychiatric Hospital and one is at QEH. #iabsolutelyhateshite

Dark Phoenix 🇧🇧🤶🏾🏹 @BajanDesignerA

4 years ago

Dem had a year, a few months for bajans to lose interest and be inn crop over mode #ihateshite

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

Researching the ongoing situation at GIS made me sick to my stomach but I needed to make this timeline so that I am clear in my mind of when things were happening.

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

I have noticed a pattern of dismissal from authorities and escalating desperation from the wards. So what really is going on at this institution which aims to provide a “safe secure, caring environment” to its wards?

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Obscuria @DeBajanArtivist

4 years ago

I want to bring special attention to the Minister stating that internal changes were being made to better the environment at the school. He stated, “I’m going to ask you to give us a couple of months…”