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Naming adoption as violence, and as a tactic of colonialism, begins to express how adoption is built and reproduced by racial capitalism. 🧵1/8
#NAAM2022 #NAAM #AdoptionAwarenessMonth #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY
#NAAM2022 #NAAM #AdoptionAwarenessMonth #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY
The idea of Racial Capitalism suggests that all capitalism is racial because racism and capitalism mutually depend upon one another. 2/8
Racial capitalism reproduces and exploits racial difference to extract profit. 3/8
Adoption and foster care emerge from the intentional control and destruction of Indigenous kinship through the forced removal of children from Indigenous communities, and their forced assimilation into European cultures.
🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6
🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6
This violence is carried out under the logic of “kill the Indian; save the man,” and the extraction of resources from the land in service of the prosperity of the invading settlers. 2/6
At the scale of the individual adopting family, Indigenous children were often used as free labor in addition to nuclear-family wish fulfillment. 3/6
Yes what’s required now is forceful political response.
I’ll get there. Please know that we #adoptees—institutionalized as infants, denied our vital records as adults, culturally viewed as “bad seeds”—are now seeing ourselves turned into a twisted rationale for inflicting harm.
I’ll get there. Please know that we #adoptees—institutionalized as infants, denied our vital records as adults, culturally viewed as “bad seeds”—are now seeing ourselves turned into a twisted rationale for inflicting harm.
This is massively traumatizing. I am NOT OK. Also please remember that the women who raised us suffered, by definition, from infertility and often repeated miscarriages. In many cases our adoptive mothers’ lives were saved by medical procedures now banned in many states.
My own adoptive mom, married and pregnant at 26, bled out and almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. When she woke up after emergency surgery she learned she’d had a partial hysterectomy and WASN’T PREGNANT ANYMORE. But she was alive. And it was a miracle.
Interactive map of all 50 US states showing which ones permit, restrict, or prohibit #adoptees from obtaining our original, unfalsified birth certificates. Thx, @adopteelaw! and hat tip to @naturenurture5 for bringing this to our attention adopteerightslaw.com/maps/
As of 3/22, just 10 states grant #adoptees the right to apply for and obtain their original unredacted birth certificate w/o restriction. In 16 states + DC, adoptee access to OBC is prohibited outright. In 24 “compromise” states, access is restricted or conditioned in some way.
Would love to hear more from fellow #adoptees born in the 24 compromise states.
I’m from IL which, since 2011, gives birth parents veto power over adoptee requests for identifying documents. Making the request for one’s own OBC a lady-or-the-tiger dilemma since what you get…
I’m from IL which, since 2011, gives birth parents veto power over adoptee requests for identifying documents. Making the request for one’s own OBC a lady-or-the-tiger dilemma since what you get…
Important AP investigative story on the int’l adoption system that separated Korean kids from their families “as part of a lucrative business under the military governments that ruled South Korea from the 1960s to the late 1980s.” #adopteetwitter seattletimes.com/nation-world/s…
“Adoptions were a way to remove the socially undesirable, including children from unwed mothers or poor families, and to reduce the number of mouths to feed.
About 200,000 Korean children were adopted by families in the West in the past six decades, including 7,924 in 1984.”
About 200,000 Korean children were adopted by families in the West in the past six decades, including 7,924 in 1984.”
“Roots are often untraceable because most of the children were listed as abandoned, even when they had known relatives, WHICH MADE THEM EASILY ADOPTABLE.”
This is how orphans are manufactured.
This is how orphans are manufactured.
Thread for the non-adopted:
Like every #adoptee I’m still thinking about this week’s NYT exposé and want to offer historical, intersectional context for widespread belief that adoption is benevolent.
Stolen at Birth, Chilean Adoptees Uncover their Past
nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
Like every #adoptee I’m still thinking about this week’s NYT exposé and want to offer historical, intersectional context for widespread belief that adoption is benevolent.
Stolen at Birth, Chilean Adoptees Uncover their Past
nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
First, the Chilean baby-trafficking operation, which apparently brought thousands of infants to the US for adoption by white couples in the 1970s-80s, is not exceptional. It’s an old script first drafted during the Greek civil war in 1946 when conflict, chaos, and oppression…
…created a political smokescreen that allowed adoption networks to airlift and adopt out 3,000+ Greek infants/kids to US couples. This became the blueprint for large-scale, trans-national adoption to the US during the Cold War.
I've been learning a ton from #adopteetwitter #adopteevoices. Something I keep thinking about:
1) In some adoption cases (not sure how many), a mother relinquishes her baby for adoption because of economics; she can't afford to raise the baby.
time.com/6051811/privat…
1) In some adoption cases (not sure how many), a mother relinquishes her baby for adoption because of economics; she can't afford to raise the baby.
time.com/6051811/privat…
2) In the U.S., adoption via private agencies costs $60,000-$70,000.
Source:
americanadoptions.com/adopt/average-…
Source:
americanadoptions.com/adopt/average-…
3) We’re learning more about adoption relinquishment trauma, and we know that babies who have a loving bond with their birth mother have the best outcomes.
mariedolfi.com/adoption-resou…
mariedolfi.com/adoption-resou…
Most of my followers here work on #climate. Also my life’s work. Or are part of the #LGBTQ STEM community. Where I also reside.
More recently, I tweet about adoption.
To mark the end of National Adoption Awareness Month #NAAM, I made a thread for all of you.
#adopteevoices
More recently, I tweet about adoption.
To mark the end of National Adoption Awareness Month #NAAM, I made a thread for all of you.
#adopteevoices
I want my climate activist friends and my LGBTQ brothers and sisters to know that it’s not okay to say you’ll “just adopt” if you want kids. Adoption is a corrupt industry that preys on poor women denied reproductive justice and denies basic civil rights to adoptees.
Among these are our right to our birth certificates. If you assume sealed records are not a thing anymore, you’re wrong. Good thread about the systemic harms of the adoption industry and the enduring falsifications/secrecies that are its hallmark features:
