‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
My Uterus was the Government’s Possession: Danish Neo-Colonial Control of Greenlandic People’s Reproductive Rights
In the spring of 2022, Naja Lyberth broke 46 years of silence when she told the Greenlandic magazine Arnanut that a Danish district doctor had forcedly fitted her and other girls from Maniitsoq with an intrauterine device (IUD) in 1976 – when they were 14 years old. The foreign object ‘felt grotesquely misplaced inside me’, Lyberth said, ‘like knives penetrating me’…