I just got off the phone with a great friend/sister of mine and I told her that a couple of months ago I was harrassed at the American Indian Museum in New York City by a security guard when breastfeeding my one year old son. I am an Indigenous woman who attended an event at the museum, I was with two girlfriends and stepped out of the event, into the hallway and sat on a bench to breastfeed my son. I was not showing any body parts, nice and covered, then the security comes from behind me and grabs my arm, then yells at me that it is against the law to breastfeed in a federal building. I'm not even sure how he knew I was breastfeeding, I was covered up...I was in shock, itimidated by this big man and still managed to tell him that I was right, that I CAN breastfeed. Then, he got furious and told me to go do it in the restroom or to leave the building. I went to the restroom, it was cold in NYC. Months later I ask my friend if its true that it's against the law to breastfeed in a federal building and she says no. Is it true? She advices me to write a letter to the museum demanding an apology and for them to train their staff that women have the right to breastfeed in federal buildings. Is there any other advice out there? Any examples of how to get this letter started? If they ignore me, can we organize a nurse-in?
Thanks!
We cannot allow to be told to not breastfeed when this is our right as mothers, women, and in my case, in my tradition, as an Indigenous woman, this is what we do, we breastfeed our children not give them formula other known as posion.
peace and liberation,
yaocihuatzin
Thanks!
We cannot allow to be told to not breastfeed when this is our right as mothers, women, and in my case, in my tradition, as an Indigenous woman, this is what we do, we breastfeed our children not give them formula other known as posion.
peace and liberation,
yaocihuatzin
