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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…
Many outside the #adoptee community seem shocked that Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe refers to the question of who will raise human beings as an issue of "supply and demand.'' Make no mistake -- this has been going on for nearly a century. #adopteevoices 🧵
As I learned in researching my book "American Baby," adoption has been a capitalistic transaction since the 1930s when state legislatures began passing secrecy laws to obscure the true nature of what was going on.
Millions of the #adoptees surrendered into the secret system that flourished in 48 states understand that the trajectory of their lives were determined by what was baldly referred to at the time as "supply and demand.''
Heads up, CO friends: Coloradans for Energy Access is actually the gas industry + real estate dudes trying to stop the renewable energy transition or what they call—wait for it—“forced electrification.” CEA is a fossil fuel wolf in grassroots clothing. desmog.com/2022/02/10/gas…
“Xcel Energy, a Minnesota-based electric and gas utility, is among the ranks of Coloradans for Energy Access. The investor-owned utility has assets across eight Midwestern and Western states, with a particularly large presence in Colorado.”
CO does not have laws prohibiting gas hook ups in new buildings, which is what we are fighting for in NYS but the CO Public Utilities Commission is considering new rules “that would put the cost of a gas hook up onto the homeowner or business.”
Thread. #Adoption is a reproductive rights issue and here’s why…
Adoption is a multi billion dollar industry- an industry that influences adoption policy and practice. This is called the adoption industrial complex.
Adoption is a multi billion dollar industry- an industry that influences adoption policy and practice. This is called the adoption industrial complex.
Another example of industrial complex is the Prison–Industrial Complex — Businesses access labor from prisoners that is cheaper than civilian labor, thus they profit from high incarceration rates.
Medical–Industrial Complex — Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies require patients to be sick, thus business interests are at odds with the goal of making people healthy. See where this is going?
A 🧵 for my non-adopted friends: If a person talks about adoption in a negative way, please don’t dismiss it with a tale of your mailman’s sister’s neighbor’s daughter who had a “good experience”.
She is me.
And while I had a “good experience”, I am not ok for it. 1/
She is me.
And while I had a “good experience”, I am not ok for it. 1/
How many people do you know that will openly talk about their trauma with you? Adoptees are particularly good at keeping on a happy face because we’ve been asked to play pretend our entire lives. What you see on the surface in no way means there is not a war raging inside us. 2/
COLONOSCOPY PSA for everyone age 40 and over*
*(with special message for #adoptees)
So I spent the last two weeks waiting for results from the pathology lab after my colonoscopy on 7/29 and I’m now here to tell you why you need to follow me into that procedure room, friends.
*(with special message for #adoptees)
So I spent the last two weeks waiting for results from the pathology lab after my colonoscopy on 7/29 and I’m now here to tell you why you need to follow me into that procedure room, friends.
I got the results yesterday. One of the two polyps found and removed from my body was almost certainly NOT going to turn into my assassin. But the other one was of the kind that can and do.
But it’s out now. And that means that mf-er is not going to be the cause of my death.
But it’s out now. And that means that mf-er is not going to be the cause of my death.
Here are the three great things about colon cancer. (All the other things about it are wretched and miserable.)
1) Unlike almost all other cancers, colon tumors go through predictable, progressive stages of growth and development before becoming deranged psychopaths.
1) Unlike almost all other cancers, colon tumors go through predictable, progressive stages of growth and development before becoming deranged psychopaths.
WOW @WIRED. This entire article is a dangerous, hyperbolic gishgallop of inaccuracies and stereotypes adoption scholars have labored decades to correct. And are easily disproven. I’m rarely speechless. But I don’t even know where to begin. #adoption #antiadoption #wired
Most pressing is mid-defining the Adoptee Rights Movement and calling it the “anti-adoption movement.” There *is* no anti-adoption movement in the U.S. A few anonymous and individual accounts do not comprise a movement and are certainly not the Adoptee Rights Movement. @WIRED
#AdopteeRights is about 1) increasing post-adoption support; 2) establishing equity for dependent children; 3) modernizing adoption to current best practices; 4) rectifying injustices that hurt adopted people and their families. Does your author have an issue with that? @WIRED
@Eric_Schmitt Experts say that Trump’s lawsuit is doomed; nonetheless, Eric Schmitt has festooned highest hopes on that suit, despite arguments moot. His mistakes in these rhymes are lampooned.
#MoAG 👀 @BrianSimsPA @KathyBoockvar @JoshShapiroPA
#MoAG 👀 @BrianSimsPA @KathyBoockvar @JoshShapiroPA
@Eric_Schmitt @BrianSimsPA @KathyBoockvar @JoshShapiroPA Parson’s right — officeholders’ poor spelling an unsettling trend is foretelling. “Principals” 🤔 are at stake. Perhaps they all should take review courses — inside of their dwelling?
#MoAG 👀
#MoAG 👀
@Eric_Schmitt @BrianSimsPA @KathyBoockvar @JoshShapiroPA “Big important ‘principals’ 🤔 are at stake” unless AG Eric Schmitt’s claims are fake. Latter option’s my bet. Like this vet soaking wet, Donald’s bull #sh¡t no more will we take — !
🇺🇸 #HappyVeteransDay
🙏🏼 #ThankYouForYourService
🇺🇸 #HappyVeteransDay
🙏🏼 #ThankYouForYourService
Yes, if you express a bad or dangerous or ignorant or hurtful opinion about adoption, it's likely that #adoptee twitter will see it. It's also likely that we will share our opinions about it with you.
Some of us are loud, some of us are quiet, some of us come out swinging, some of us are willing to take some time to explain - IF we feel you are dealing with us in good faith.
See, most of us have a pretty keen nose for bullshit. It's a survival skill we've had to develop.
See, most of us have a pretty keen nose for bullshit. It's a survival skill we've had to develop.
We can tell when questions are coming from a genuine place, from a genuine lack of knowledge.
And, we can tell when questions and responses are coming from a privileged, entitled place, and are designed to somehow hurt or minimize or diminish our voices.
And, we can tell when questions and responses are coming from a privileged, entitled place, and are designed to somehow hurt or minimize or diminish our voices.
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I am a 57 year old, tall, thin, cishet, white, #adopted man. For years I have been horrified and appalled at the violence and oppression women suffer and the hands of people of my demographic - men just like me.
I am a 57 year old, tall, thin, cishet, white, #adopted man. For years I have been horrified and appalled at the violence and oppression women suffer and the hands of people of my demographic - men just like me.
A few years ago, I started to volunteer at my local women's shelter and to follow feminist pages on facebook where I learned a lot about myself and my role in the patriarchy and the oppression of my sisters.
From those facebook pages I found links to feminist Twitter where my education and enlightenment accelerated and grew dramatically.
This is the 20th anniv. of home DNA testing for ancestry purposes! 20 years ago this mo, @FamilyTreeDNA sent out its first test kit. The testing was v diff, but the industry (cos like @23andMe, @Ancestry and @MyHeritage) traces back to this moment 2 decades ago. #DNAtesting20
In coming wks I’ll be tweeting out the milestones of the last 20 yrs in #DNAtesting. I’m taking suggestions! Could be industry or #geneticgenealogy moments, or ones relating to yr personal #genealogy journey. Put year and tag #DNAtesting20. This week: 2000-2010.
Milestones from 20 yrs of #DNAtesting: #DNAsurprises have been uncovered since the industry's beginning. The founder of @FamilyTreeDNA told me he stumbled on the 1st before he even rolled out product, during proof of concept testing in ‘99. #genealogy Send yrs w/ #DNAtesting20
