i know i am not the only #adoptee who thinks about the notion of wrongful birth. birth under coercion is wrong, and birth under *these* circumstances is a heinous wrong. no life should begin this way.

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speaking as an #adoptee: seeing rosie o’donnell make a cameo appearance on a tv show is enough to kill my interest in the show

https://www.europesays.com/2070062/ Children evacuated during Vietnam War’s Operation Babylift are on a quest to find their families #ACT #adopted #adoptee #ARRIVED #australia #australian #biological #birth #box #canberra #cardboard #DNA #ElizabethWray #evacuated #family #LocalNews #LocalStories #OperationBabylift #parents #RohanSamara #Saigón #SueYenLuiten #Vietnam #VietnamWar #Vietnamese

https://www.europesays.com/fr/15831/ la réforme du mode de scrutin adoptée à l’Assemblée #2025 #actu #Actualités #adoptée #EU #europe #FR #France #l’Assemblée #Marseille #mode #municipales #News #politique #ProvenceAlpesCôteD'Azur #Réforme #RépubliqueFrançaise #Scrutin

i saw this on reddit. being an #adoptee who never saw an actual relative until the age of 40, i am mesmerized by images like this.

my past 10 years as an unfogged #adoptee have shown me that not only do i reject utilitarian ethics, but also the kind of constructivism that says that ethical principles are those “we” would choose under certain idealized deliberative conditions. moral demands are *objective* and *uncompromising.*

My essay in GEIST, "The Dead Viking My Birthmother Gave Me" and you can read the whole thing! www.geist.com/fact/the-dea... My illustration of my #birthmother fielding messages from the dead for an audience. She connects people. #adoption #adoptee #faith #spirituality #lgbtq

#Adoptee here. The very idea of a registry of infant suppliers—of breeders for baby buyers—is fascism. Coercing people to relinquish to strangers the children they were forced to give birth to does not redress the injustice of forcing births; it compounds the injustice.

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she is an intercountry #adoptee from China; she has two heart conditions and she requires a transplant; her hospital will not approve the transplant until her adopters agree to her receiving flu and COVID vaccines, which they adamantly refuse to do. She is in heart failure.

JD Vance’s relative, 12, refus...

I finally got 'round to updating my Substack and going to work on posting there more often now.

I've been marveling at how much easier it is to get things done without Meta-based brain clutter.

I've not left Meta -- I may eventually hop on & deactivate accounts. But for now, I've backed away quietly. A big part of this is the fact that I'm in recent reunion with my biological family. I'm an #adoptee -- so not only am I recently in reunion, but several have added me on Facebook & it makes me sad to think of leaving the platform totally behind... feels a little like severing those relationships without giving them half a chance, even though that's not what I'd be doing at all. I will be inviting some of my newly-acquainted first family to other apps where we can do the same things as on Facebook, but I'm taking my time to figure the best way to phrase those invitations.

the really hard questions concern what an #adoptee is to do when the (birth) parent wants to keep the familial connection a secret from others. Adoptee memoirs like @thesusanito.bsky.social 's magnificent I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE meditate upon this. But *my* right to know is not a hard question.

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as an #adoptee, I struggle with the way I use kinship terms. So do many adoptees. And other adoptees don’t struggle; they know exactly what they mean by words like “parent,” “child,” “birth[/natural/original/gestational] mother.” The trouble begins when any of us tries to legislate for all of us.

i think about how i could justly unleash my fury on the people in my life responsible for this abuse, & for the abuse that consisted in keeping me fogged & deprived of all access to the truth, & even of permission to define & explore my own identity as an #adoptee—but i share it with you instead

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because everyone, including me, assumed i would never know the identity of my original family, and because i never dared to discuss it with another #adoptee, i could never have predicted what it was going to be like when at the age of 39 i saw my name on my OBC. It was: This is who i actually am.

Genuine question for those who have left Meta in the dust:

How did y'all address with family members the topic of "we're not going to be on Meta anymore & would like to switch to [insert non-Meta messaging app]?

And if you went this route, what apps did y'all choose as extended families?

I personally don't have a family chat thread in Messegner, but I'm recently in reunion [I'm an adoptee] with bio-fam who are relatively active on FB. I'm not leaving the app yet, but I feel like that could happen at some point...

Since we are seeing it exploding all around us, i will continue to talk about the deep misopedia that pervades our society. It’s a pet interest of mine as an #adoptee.

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