- Check out sites that provide definitions of penis, foreskin, etc (i.e. brittanica.com) and send them feedback to get proper attention and detail given to foreskin and/or circumcision facts.
- Go to Cancer sites (i.e. American Cancer Society) and give them feedback to give proper information (i.e. do not use the word "uncircumcise.")
- Search for the words "circumcise," "circumcised," "circumcision" or "foreskin" on Facebook and GoFundMe for opportunities to educate.
- When out and about at shopping locations (baby stores, Walmart, Target, etc.) and put informational cards in places where people that are likely having a child will see it. Greeting cards for people that are pregnant is a good example.
- Check out educational institutions and museums where there is a display of the male genitalia and speak out if the display does not show an intact penis. Credit: Tara Nova Draegan for doing this in Vancouver, BC at Science World (and succeeded in getting them to change it!)
- Go to "https://www.customizedinc.com/customer-care/contact-us/" and ask that they give information for intact penis care and to remove reference(s) to circumcision reducing penile cancer risk (according to American Cancer Society).
- In the following e-book, there is a list of school texts (in the references section) that do not cover the anatomy of the intact penis; attempt to contact the publishers and request that they send out an addendum to the owners of their book and to stop distributing their current book: https://books.google.nl/books?id=-IMk5TXEdWQC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=An%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Accuracy%20of%20the%20Presentation%20of%20%20%20%20%20the%20Human%20Penis%20in%20Anatomical%20Source%20Materials&source=bl&ots=wyWiSzZXF1&sig=oZ1qqaQ4XQKbT7NExc4LwkG5VOA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5J_AVL6RDcWvU-OphOAC&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg&fbclid=IwAR2Boowf6rYL2Xpaaq4BbmTrRzr0lbGft64tUqYvPp8fcrTFpkWL5-JB5Is#v=onepage&q=An%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Accuracy%20of%20the%20Presentation%20of%20%20%20%20%20the%20Human%20Penis%20in%20Anatomical%20Source%20Materials&f=false
- If you're genitally mutilated, make sure the medical system knows about the ill-effects. Go to your doctor and ask them to document the "complications" of your "circumcision." For instance, identify any keratinization of your glans, tight skin and scrotum skin on the shaft.
- If you were genitally mutilated as a minor, file a complaint with the hospital/clinic and with the local authorities where it was done. i.e. https://johnadkison.blogspot.com/2018/10/filed-criminal-complaint-for.html
- Go to dating sites, create fake profiles (as a male on gay sites and female on straight ones) and ask men if they are circumcised.
- Contact providers and let them know your feelings on the topic. www.yourwholebaby.org has kits that can be sent to providers. Here's a tracking list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sryhu0ryQ7RFiyiwbv3UPmvEWFsJyPLeVsoC3Wz3nkY/edit?usp=sharing - Look for contact pages or email addresses of providers and ask them whether they would make this brochure available for expecting parents: https://www.yourwholebaby.org/shop/brochure
- Find out when your hospital and/or local government has a public comment meeting where the public is allowed to speak to the board. John Sambrook has done this in Kirkland, WA: https://youtu.be/u1g3uhomMvc
- Start or participate in a petition directed at your state. Here's an example:
https://www.change.org/p/washington-state-house-make-genital-mutilation-of-minors-explicitly-illegal-in-washington-state?recruiter=8381529&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_content=fhtcon-13912652-en-us%3Av6&fbclid=IwAR3c_CHTWUK2g8r8IYHDU8p73EtMz398v-vBj00F914hK-fHbJEuu2gmmI0
Here's a letter that was written to the state representatives (found on the state's website) regarding the initiation of the petition:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kvkgn0D-zKnKJvY8VIqjQ1lG-alZwqeb - Contact the Inspector General (USA specific) - https://johnadkison.blogspot.com/2020/06/contact-dod-inspector-general.html
- Contact daycares that care for infants and ask them how they deal with changing diapers on intact boys. If they give you the correct answer, give them 5 stars on a review site like Google Maps; if they do not, give them 1 star.
- Pin images from genital autonomy sites into Pinterest. This is extremely easy once you have the Pinterest plug-in in your browser.
- Write a blog. Places like blogger.com are free. Who knows, you may even get enough followers and figure out ways to get paid for your blog. But, for the purposes of this, you can do things like include images like this one with tags that may cause the image to show up in image searches:
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Intactivist things to do
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