🎉 California's original birth certificate bill just passed the State Senate 35 to 0, with 5 senators not voting. (Some are those who had objections in committees earlier.) The Assembly may not vote on SB 381 until June but this is a good start! Thank you to CAAR for their all their hard work. 🥚

I love adoptee spaces, but I’m firm on the belief that adoptee-rights advocacy should be led by Black women. They’ve been doing this work long before it had language or platforms. Black families also remain disproportionately impacted by family separation and legal adoption.

If you ever wonder why adoptees struggle with their own narrative, even after they have stepped out of the "adoption fog", then it's because they have been spoon-fed and gaslit with this shit their entire lives. 🥚

I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption. I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.

adopters have all kinds of opinions on behalf of adoptees about what does and does not matter in #adoption

#Adoptees! The California state Senate just began livestreaming at 2:08 pm. The adoptee bill is third; it might be heard today if there is time! Observing a moment of silence for Alex Pretti. Just starting. . . www.senate.ca.gov/calendar

Rosie O Donnell is not a leftist icon, she’s a washed up capitalist scumbag whose only relevance comes from hating trump, having a gender-queer adopted child, and treating TikTok like therapy to air her families dirty laundry. I say this as a queer leftie, she is nothing but a NARCISSIST. okbye.

i’m a librarian and i really love archivists and their mission. we librarians serve the people of the present. archivists serve posterity.

🥚 Californians! Contact your state senator before Monday and urge them to vote YES on SB 381, "Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates" when it is voted on next week, Jan. 26-29, 2026. This link lets you look up your state reps by entering your home address: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov 1/5

Why are adoption and foster care movies always framed as feel good stories? This one shows the process. It shows the struggle. And it still ends with savior narratives intact. What did this movie want you to feel good about? #adopteesky

The adoption parallel to "copaganda" is "adoptaganda" -- it builds, shores up, and maintains the belief that some parents should not raise children because: 1) they are bad humans; and, 2) other would-be parents are more deserving. See, too Eugenics, Socioeconomic Class, and Scientific Racism.

Love the term “adoptaganda.” Hollywood doesn’t ask us to interrogate our feelings; it reframes injustice to uphold systems. it tells us how to feel. Olivia Benson becomes our lens of “law and order,” not our friends and neighbors harmed by these systems… shame for victims, praise for police

That couch scene wasn’t about care. It was about control, fear framed as concern, surveillance framed as help. This is how the family policing system shows up early. If you’ve lived this, you’re not imagining it. Hosted with (@itsjway.bsky.social)

I think it's totally fine and healthy to take puppies and kittens away from their mother immediately after birth and give them up away to a new family.

Since 2016, Arizona’s Department of Child Safety has paid out $30 million in settlements, most for wrongful child removals. These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re proof that the family policing system causes harm and then makes taxpayers pay for it. #adopteesky

Michigan invalidates advance directives and living wills when women are pregnant. Residents have filed a lawsuit challenging this pregnancy exclusion, arguing it violates the right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution.

The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

TIM POOL THE LITERAL RUSSIAN ASSET www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to. Trading presidential favors for self-interest. You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.

Argentina got 40 billion of our tax money and now owns the cattle market. Murica

lots of people on the verge of a menty b without access to a therapist or other mental health tools like behavior coaching and are picking fights online because it's easier than mentally processing $20 billion to Argentina, endless tariffs, a recession, and the East Wing at the WH being destroyed

Hey #adoptee folks on here 🥚, curious if anyone's done research or has thoughts on adoptees who are polyamorous or otherwise non-monogamous. Looking for essays, perspectives, articles, whatever.

the relation of parent to child is one of stewardship, not ownership. but #adoption is designed to confer legal parenthood through the issuing of false birth records, which give the adopters permanent ownership of the adoptee's identity. why can't adult adoptees legally emancipate themselves?

16 year old Kanaiyah Ward died alone in a Baltimore hotel while under DHS “care.” Maryland promised to end foster youth hotel placements years ago. How many more? #adopteesky #JusticeForKanaiyah

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their history.” "The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind" (2019) by Jackson Ford 🥚

To be fair, adoption as practiced is also deeply dehumanizing.

I forget egg. Extra egg for inconvenience 🥚🥚🥚

Here is my public list of films featuring adoption/foster/related concepts on Letterboxd 🖤 let me know if you notice I’ve missed anything or would like me to watch/review anything already on the list (120 titles total currently) boxd.it/wB7Eg

My face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:

Absolutely floored by this reporting. BEGGING @aurabogado.bsky.social for an update on Doña Amalia’s stolen grandchildren—and the migrant kids still being torn from their families by #ICERaids. What happened to the girl who exposed all the shady stuff with ORR’s contracted foster homes?

If you need help obtaining birth information from the state of Michigan, we have you covered. Please join us for this free online workshop tomorrow night. #adopteerights #michiganadoptee 🥚 www.meetup.com/metro-detroi...

Troy was found dead inside a washing machine. His adoptive father, Jemaine Thomas, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison; his mother awaits sentencing. Troy was a curious, joyful boy who loved learning ...and he matters to us too. 🥚 #adopteejustice

my legal and social identities were changed and my past was hidden. nameless brokers steered me out of one family and community and into another. money changed hands to bring it about. i had no possibility of consenting to any of it. but you call it “rescue” and none dare call it trafficking. 🥚

Understand that identity erasure is the bedrock of #adoption as we know it. It’s entirely independent of the distinction between “closed” and “open” adoptions. Virtually every adoption decree results in the adoptee receiving a *new birth certificate*, as if their very origins had been transformed.

"i'm sorry you had a bad #adoption experience" i didn't, but i'm glad you're having a good ignorance experience

Doesn't matter who's good or bad within a racist, classist system intentionally designed to uphold a particular standard of parenting by punishing those deemed undeserving. It's our duty to be absolute in our negativity when discussing systems whose sole purpose is to destroy families. 🥚

Adoptees 🥚 when they introduce themselves invariably have to talk about their adoption situation and make it a polarized "good" or "bad" situation. But I refuse to comfort Kept, especially APs. If you're going to challenge me, then I'm going to talk statistics and you know, reality.

adopters don’t pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of calling themselves custodians of other people’s children. they are paying for the privilege of erasing reality and inventing a substitute. 🥚

"While unmarried pregnant white women during this period [1950s] were often sent to maternity homes by their families out of shame, Indigenous communities did not brand 'illegitimate' children with the same stigma and often absorbed them into large kinship networks." — Kristen Martin, pp. 207-08 🥚

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Goebbels Miller thinks Brown people are the reason his wife is banging muskRAT...

New episode on Friday with @itsjway.bsky.social reflecting on the Black Mother's March. #adopteesky

"Our adoption records policy has more in common with the secret police state of the old German Democratic Republic and Argentina under the generals than the UK, Israel, France, or present day Germany. The US and China share sealed adoption records laws..." Ron Morgan beyondchron.org/adoption-pol...

Do #AdopteeRights advocates know if this is a "Trojan Horse" bill to open up law that currently provides all NY-born adoptees their original birth certificates? The National Council for Adoption does NOT care about adoptees' rights. So this is very hmmmm. westchester.news12.com/wrongly-word...

Adoption is built on secrecy, deception, and cruel lies. This episode with @kadasaurus.bsky.social comes out on Friday! #adopteesky

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Look who got to finally meet up in person 🥚 🖤 @adopteecrossing.bsky.social

It was a happy Mother’s Day because I wasn’t alone, I got to honor my mom and I was around people who understand the violence of the family policing system. 🩵