Talk:Military Sexual Trauma Movement

Military Sexual Trauma Movement’s legislative successes:

The Restoration of Honor of Act of 2019, the first intersectional military and veterans legislation in United States History. ROHA19 protects LGBTQIA, TBI, PTSD, MST, other unnamed disabilities, as well as protections for race. Jánelle Marina Méndez-Viera is the first and only United States citizen to successfully author, lobby, and enact intersectional legislation.

Through Méndez-Viera’s leadership the U.S. Navy & Marine Corps. enacted the Safe-to-Report policy of 2022 which removes disciplinary and adverse administrative actions out of the power of the chains of commands when a soldier or marine report Military Sexual Violence (MSV) to their chains of commands. This policy only permits COC to refer victims to medical or legal services. Méndez-Viera is the subject of Boricua Gringa, an evidential biography written by Eleanor Wait, a Welsh feminist who detailed Jánelle Marina’s life story at length. She showcases Méndez’s use of political nudity to resist patriarchal oppression that has led to a 90% rate of rape and retaliation against Latin and Caribbean American female Marines. Jánelle also used nudity to empower and call attention to LGBTQIA discrimination. Boricua Gringa, the biography graciously lays out systemic injustices, discrimination, retaliation, and white supremacist factions in the military that cause state-sponsored sexual violence. The abundance of evidence led to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro to enact the Safe-to-Report Policy. This became Méndez-Viera’s second intersectional legislative reform and first success on the federal level.

Jánelle Marina Méndez-Viera authored and lobbied U.S. Congress for many years regarding the Military Industry Regulatory Authority aka MIRA during the height of the Vanessa Guillen Protests. Her movement’s lobbying efforts influenced both the I Am Vanessa Guillen Act of 2022 and the Military Justice Improvement Act of 2021; most notably her advocacy of LGBTQIA protections. Méndez-Viera didn’t stop there. Her human rights advocacy resulted in U.S. Secretary Austin Lloyd issuing a Department of Defense memo in July 2021 implementing a key piece of MIRA legislation by enacting reporting timelines and deadlines to higher ups in the CoC.

In 2022, Méndez-Viera fought to access the cure for PTSD and filed a number of human rights complaints at the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights detailing the systemic failures within the DoD, Navy, Marine Corps. and VHA. Leading to the enactment of MIRA within the DoD and the development of a credentialing program for military leaders with ongoing CE training and mandatory auditing processes as Méndez called on the UN to enact MIRA internationally with UN oversight forcing the U.S. Military to begin enacting MIRA for it’s 2023 debut.

Jánelle Marina is one of the most effective and influential feminist human rights leaders of our era. She remains the only person in U.S. History to consistently enact intersectional legislation that protects diverse and marginalized populations in the military and veteran communities. 148.0.112.208 (talk) 18:37, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

MSTM the MeToo Feminist Movement’s Military Division

MSTM is a feminist human rights organization founded and led by Puerto Rican intersectional feminist Jánelle Marina Méndez Viera who has used inspiration from Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno) resistance culture to challenge the patriarch. Méndez-Viera had most notably done this through the use of nudity as protest to call attention to systems of state-sponsored sexual violence in the ranks.

Jánelle Marina Méndez-Viera is the 4th Wave Feminist Movement’s most prolific icon of political nudity. Her creative forms of resistance include the use of Caribbean Native American and African tribal influences to demonstrate her own intersectional experience with Military Sexual Violence. She often draws inspiration from the slave rebellions that occurred in Loíza, Puerto Rico. She has used a mix of nudity, bomba dance, and speeches in Taíno Native American headdress to call attention to the roots of Military Sexual Violence in the Western Hemisphere.

She is also the subject of the Perfect Woman Artwork painted by Puerto Rican painter MainOne who specializes in Puerto Rican resistance art. Méndez is in North American headdress gifted to her by a Lakota Sioux woman for her efforts during the NDAPL protests. While Méndez worked for J.P. Morgan, one of the banks funding the pipeline through the Energy Renaissance portfolio, Jánelle began organizing online to send veterans to Standing Rock to cause political risks in order to tank the portfolio value so investors would pull out of the portfolio.

While Méndez-Viera is a mixed-race Caribbean Native American woman from the Lokono tribe (publicly known as Taíno); she was gifted this headdress for her efforts in contributing to the fight for indigenous rights. While the style is a plains headdress, the color white is to represent the Taíno tribes warrior headdress. This headdress combination is a symbol of two different tribes coming together to form a nationwide resistance to white supremacy. Méndez-Viera is naked in this painting in which she has Taíno petroglyphs painted on her body to tell the story of her indigenous heritage. Single Taína women lived their lives naked with only headdress and jewelry. The Perfect Woman Painting is a tribute to indigenous Caribbean American culture and resistance to patriarchy. Jánelle Marina has used a variety of forms of nude resistance from artwork, to photos, to book covers to represent the Afro-Taíno resistance. She is the most prolific feminist icons of political nudity. 148.0.112.208 (talk) 19:03, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

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Vandalism- IP user made a number of false edits during the month of April 2022 to include stating that MSTM lied to get women benefits. MSTM is strictly a political non-profit that focuses on legislative changes. MSTM has never engaged in benefits assistance and there is no news to support that as MSTM is a 501(c)4 meaning there’s no way we can operate as a benefits assistance organization MSTM is a social cause lobbying and human rights organization as the other 25 articles demonstrate. 107.116.79.19 (talk) 03:54, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

 Not done for now: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. voorts (talk/contributions) 07:05, 21 May 2023 (UTC)