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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
